Picnic at Hanging Rock Review- Tale of Missing Schoolgirls Haunted By Its Own Retelling

The original article can be found: here.

The main points of the article are:

The Amazon series is a 'darker, sexier retelling' of the story.
The article refers to the 'disquiet about white people's place in Australia.'
The style of the series is 'a kind of Alice in Wonderland psychedelic gothic bush aesthetic.'
There's too much sub-plotting and cutting between past and present which the article says it 'becomes a structural downfall.'
The series tries to put today's attitudes on some things onto a time when the attitudes were very different. This is seen by the emphasis on possible lesbian relationships between the girls, one of the girls and one of the teachers, and an implied homosexual relationship between Michael and Albert.
The article says that the story of what happened 'has returned, but the mystery has vanished.'

Back to start of Hanging Rock section

My Index Page