1998 |
50-odd 30-minute episodes
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SF elements |
post-apocalypse |
Review |
A plague has wiped out all the adults on Earth, and the children must struggle to survive in a hostile world... On the surface this is just a children's soap opera -- yet I find it strangely compelling. It's another one of that collection of Antipodean imaginative children's SF that adults can enjoy, too. A large cast of fairly complex characters form The Tribe -- they take over a shopping mall, and struggle with everyday teen problems: relationships, pregnancy, eating disorders, disagreeing amongst themselves, finding water, hunting for food, treating broken limbs, building a wind-powered generator, being attacked and enslaved by other tribes, searching for a cure for the virus... And it's full of little touches -- like the ever-changing but unremarked upon face painting -- that add the extra depth that makes this rise above the ordinary. |
Rating: 3 |
[ unmissable | worth watching | passes the time | mind candy | unwatchable | unfinishable ] |
reviewed 23 October 1999