Ten Pound Poms: Season 1

"This is enjoyable enough, nicely compelling, and a real education for those not familiar with the Ten Pound Poms story."

"At times you can feel a clear urge on the part of the scriptwriters to make the whole thing a parable of feminist and racial progress, but they’re obviously hamstrung in this respect..."

"The hour-long episodes are overlong, sagging in the middle, yet still don’t do justice to the over-extended cast and convoluted plotlines."

"Lightweight, superficial, and a missed opportunity to interrogate our modern immigration concerns, Ten Pound Poms is, all the same, a burst of sun-soaked schmaltz."

"(Brocklehurst's) essentially on-the-nose approach means that there’s little room for ambiguity..."

"It’s a solidly enjoyable Sunday night drama, albeit one that feels slightly lacking."

"Field gives a mesmerising performance... even if his script sometimes leans a little heavily on the film Wake in Fright."

"The show is let down by hokey production, overwrought storytelling and under-developed characters. Cartoonish, even."

"There's certainly enough material here for a rich, involving series. The mistake has been to try to cram all of it into the first episode."