The story line looked ok if unoriginal but with a local flavour.
Throwing 2 people from different backgrounds together in a setting they aren't familiar with has been done dozens of times before. So I didn't expect anything original but the setting and theme should have made this watchable, it didn't.
For a start its not a comedy and tries far too hard to be one. No laugh out loud moments or even a giggle, just cringe worthy scenes that fail miserably. Watch Rebecca Gibney's character stumble about in Gucci or Jimmy Choos while working in the vineyard. Why?
A note to non-New Zealanders. Kiwis do not talk like this or act like this outside these types of programmes. It was offensive that every local excluding the rich winery owners trying to buy the vineyard were portrayed as simple country folk. A lawyer who doesn't know what 'sole heir' means and says he should have faxed details. And picks up the 2 main characters in what looks like a 1980's bench seat ute. Really? Que unfunny uncomfortable lame jokes. Two orchard workers who don't seem to have a brain between them but we'll make the Maori girl the bright one and the wooly haired buff white guy the simple one. A builder who's a big Maori bloke who gets all torn and emotional when he is rebuffed by Rebecca Gibney's character after a one night stand. A local woman who says Í'll have to look up some of those big words' while planning a garage sale. Sorry, 'Pop Up Boutique'. And a bank manager who bawls over a turkey who dies. This may have worked in the 1970s but today it's just offensive and makes NZers look stupid. I thought we'd moved on from stereo typical characters, apparently not.
Its a 2, one for each episode I managed to get through. Avoid this crap at all costs.
Throwing 2 people from different backgrounds together in a setting they aren't familiar with has been done dozens of times before. So I didn't expect anything original but the setting and theme should have made this watchable, it didn't.
For a start its not a comedy and tries far too hard to be one. No laugh out loud moments or even a giggle, just cringe worthy scenes that fail miserably. Watch Rebecca Gibney's character stumble about in Gucci or Jimmy Choos while working in the vineyard. Why?
A note to non-New Zealanders. Kiwis do not talk like this or act like this outside these types of programmes. It was offensive that every local excluding the rich winery owners trying to buy the vineyard were portrayed as simple country folk. A lawyer who doesn't know what 'sole heir' means and says he should have faxed details. And picks up the 2 main characters in what looks like a 1980's bench seat ute. Really? Que unfunny uncomfortable lame jokes. Two orchard workers who don't seem to have a brain between them but we'll make the Maori girl the bright one and the wooly haired buff white guy the simple one. A builder who's a big Maori bloke who gets all torn and emotional when he is rebuffed by Rebecca Gibney's character after a one night stand. A local woman who says Í'll have to look up some of those big words' while planning a garage sale. Sorry, 'Pop Up Boutique'. And a bank manager who bawls over a turkey who dies. This may have worked in the 1970s but today it's just offensive and makes NZers look stupid. I thought we'd moved on from stereo typical characters, apparently not.
Its a 2, one for each episode I managed to get through. Avoid this crap at all costs.