The DVD Review

SEACHANGE Series 2  

Roadshow Home Entertainment. Out now.  Available to buy now in 2 separate volumes. 

Seachange, the ABC’s biggest ever homegrown show, is like comfort food, you can spend time with the people of Pearl Bay and come away secure that a little part of the world somewhere is as askew as your own world.

Roadshow have followed up their release of season one with naturally enough season two (available in two separate two disc sets), for those new to the show the basic premise saw City lawyer Laura Gibson (Sigrid Thornton) realise she is at a crossroads in her life - she decides to upsticks and takes a job as magistrate in the coastal town of Pearl Bay - with she and her two kids having to adjust to their new lives.

Series two opens with Laura having a fling with David Wenham as Diver Dan (their on-off relationship features strongly in the early part of this series) but Laura’s ex husband Jack (Patrick Dickson) arrives back on the scene to throw a spanner in the works. Other major storylines for this series include a storm ruining the bridge link to Port Deacon, a heatwave makes the men of the town act strangely and the whole town losing it’s savings when the Pearl Bay community bank is ripped off.  

With it’s Northern Exposure Down  Under type feel it’s the town as a whole though that makes the series so enjoyable with such characters as the superb Bob Jelly, the local big man about town played with great gusto by John Wood and Max Connors (played by William MacInnes). Spend some time in Pearl Bay and you won’t be disappointed.

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