Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Alicia I love this movie so much

SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Myriam Nys (Review based on seeing the whole season one.)The series treats a number of environmental themes, such as deforestation. This is a thing to be proud of. Still, I couldn't help thinking that the series was missing a golden opportunity : give the screenplay and storylines a very slight twist and you could have a thriller or drama series about the environment that's not only tense, but informative and topical too. Imagine the following plot : somewhere within the seemingly pristine beauty of these superb woods, criminals are building an illegal dump for dangerous waste. Two girls happen to witness one of the waste transports. One of the girls gets murdered, the other one suffers serious head injuries causing partial memory loss. Fifteen years later, the survivor - by now a doctor of some note - returns to her home town and discovers that many of its inhabitants are ill with mysterious diseases. Moreover, the surrounding woods are disfigured by strange growths or barren spots. The survivor discovers the cause : noxious substances, coming from the dump, have been leaking into the soil and the water.And voilà : you've got a thrilling series that makes sense, too. It's not even difficult to write such a screenplay : go to the website of one of the major environmental protection conventions (say "Basel" on waste or "Stockholm" on persistent organic pollutants) and you'll find a choice of real-life horror stories, complete with case histories and timelines. But no, for some reason or other "Kettering" provides us with hours of katzenjammer about strange signals, UFO's, government conspiracies, triffids, the Dyatlov Pass incident and so on. (Mind you, it's very stylish katzenjammer.) It's possible that the series, in later seasons, will be able to distill something coherent out of this wild and extravagant mix, but I doubt it. Mark the words of your old auntie Myriam : I fear that this will become a "Lost" II, meaning that the viewer will get lots and lots of riddles, questions, in-jokes, dream sequences, mysteries, alternative futures and so on, but no overarching narrative and no resolution. I'm still giving "Kettering" seven stars, for its eerie, brooding atmosphere and its superb (and superbly filmed) locations, exteriors and nature scenes. With regard to the Dyatlov Pass incident : no, I don't know what happened to those poor people, but I do know that they died young and under horrid circumstances. So why use their death as a source of cheap thrills ? It's bad enough having to die this way (while knowing your friends are dying too) without getting buried, posthumously, under several feet of UFO nonsense.

billcallinderscott-2607 For the first 4 or five episode it was the type of series that left me wanted to shout at the lead actress and ask "Why don't you tell someone". So infuriating it was almost painful to watch and yet I did. I though she just has to confide in somebody eventually which, of course, she did. However if I written this review without watching the whole series I would have given it just four stars.Even then after watching the whole series there were so many loose ends I thought it can't just end there. Having checked it seems that after this series won a fistful of awards then, somewhat reluctantly it seems, Foxtel may agree to a second series which it appears the writers had in mind. I can only say it would be madness not to do so. The loose ends are numerous and really have to be tied up even if we don't see what happens in the end. Somethings can be left to the viewers imagination. Having said that it introduced an alien object that hasn't even been discussed but seems to be doing something to ready humanity for a change. But the change isn't fully explained even though it's implied it's going to be as a result of environmental changes. We have an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" theme developing in the finale with two branches. One branch includes Anna, the Greeny, eco-warrior Jens Jorgenssen and a few others with the second branch including a bunch of psychos that haven't transitioned to their new state properly and need the help of the likes of Anna and Jens. The "toxic waste" isn't explained properly as it appears to be causing huge environmental problems but was introduced by the eco-warrior Jens in collusion with Anna's father and a couple of others. Just what is it really and what's it's purpose? Finally there is a sudden explosion of strange moss which is largely ignored but looks like it causes dogs to go mad if they ate any and it looks like it cause some people to get bark like sores on their bodies.So unexplained mysteries abound and really need answering or a good storyline and series will be relegated to the likes of other, especially those with a SciFi theme, that showed great promise but were cancelled.

s k Maybe it's just me. But more and more shows seem to want to emulate the offbeat quirky nature of Twin Peaks. However, they almost always fail. What ends up happening is that they interject weirdness and obtuseness just for the sake of being weird and obtuse. It significantly interferes with good old fashioned story telling. And when it comes down to it, all shows, regardless of genre or style, are about telling a story. To intentionally trot out some garbled high brow fogginess and misdirection, powered by multiple misleading story arcs just to try to create mood and tension results in a mess, not a masterpiece. This show is more mess than masterpiece. Things just don't ever really come together with all the different characters and their varying disjointed stories. It's not suspenseful; it's annoying. The show isn't without merit, but it really misses the mark by an Aussie mile.

Lars Bear There is a certain kind of person who gets a kick out of suggesting that if a book, or a film, makes little sense, the reader or viewer is lacking in imagination or intellectual capacity. I can see that a few of these bottom-feeders have already been active in this discussion. The reality is that, while a movie or a book need not have a clear, linear plot that is fully explicated, to be credible it must give the impression that there _is_ such a plot. That is, we must at least come away with the impression that the writers knew what they were doing, even if nobody else does. Moreover, to be worth investing time in watching or reading it, it must be possible for an attentive person of ordinary memory and attention span to get this impression in a single reading or viewing, not two or three.So the original series of Twin Peaks works, even though it leaves many questions unanswered. That, too, was about odd, quasi-supernatural goings on in a scenic logging town. But with TP there was enough coherence in the storyline that, even though we go away baffled, we still think that -- at some level or other -- it makes sense. It might only make sense in David Lynch's head but he, at least, knew what it was all about. Well, maybe.That's the problem with the Kettering Incident -- there are so many disconnected, unrelated plot elements, that it doesn't give me any confidence that there is any underlying coherence. Rather, it looks like four or more unrelated stories shoe-horned together. It's almost as if the writers didn't really care whether it made sense, so long as they could write scenes where the actors stare moodily at one another with mountains in the background. It's difficult to care about the characters, because it feels as if the writers didn't care about them. Not enough to make them behave like real folks, anyway. The whole thing plods along with a smug, leaden seriousness, as if the slightest moment of levity would make people realize how silly the whole thing is.What rescues The Kettering Incident from being complete dross is the cinematography and overall atmosphere. Many, many scenes in the movie would look great as still images. It's almost worth watching just for this; but only almost.