TL;DR – This is a show that is filled with clever writing, full of compelling characters, interesting stories, and heart you rarely see.
Score – 4 out of 5 stars
Review –
Authenticity, this is something that content creators across the world are
desperate to achieve because it is what modern audiences crave, even if they
don’t quite know what it is. Add to this it is easy for people to notice when
something is out of place when it is something close to them, like the lives of
tradies, or small shop owners, or people living in apartments. So it is a bold
move to set a new drama series in a setting that is deeply familiar and even
bolder when you pull it off with style.
So to set the scene, The Heights
revolves around the people that live in and around a block of apartments called The Tower. While the area around is
starting to rapidly gentrify, The Tower is made up of low socioeconomic
residents just trying to make their lives a little better. One day as everyone
was out enjoying the sunshine with a BBQ and a game of soccer the fire alarm of
The Tower rings out. This causes all kinds of frustrations for the residents
like Hazel (Fiona Press) who have to evacuate when everyone knows it is a false
alarm. When all is sorted, everyone goes back to their lives when a soccer ball
gets kicked into a garden but when Pav (Marcus Graham) goes to collect it he
discovers a newborn baby among the
veggies. Pav an ex-cop runs the baby
straight to the local hospital (it was quicker than waiting for an ambulance) into
the hands of Claudia (Roz Hammond) a doctor that is new to the hospital and
area. Everyone begins wondering whose
baby could it be, but there is a lot on everyone’s plate, like a wake and a closing
of the local pub, starting a new school, finding a new job, and 100% not
telling your mother than you are studying education and not business. Now, from this point onwards, we will
be looking at the season as a whole, or at least the first 16 episodes, so
there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead.
