A White Elephant On The Strip…
Last night was the premier of the highly promoted new drama on the Nine Network called The Strip, and if watching the show there would be no trouble in distinguishing where the show is filmed with the countless amounts of flyover shots and touched up scenic shots . In fact if you were really keen it would be easy to establish a drinking game for every time you see images of the Gold Coast looking at water and high rise apartments, but the end of this one hour show you would have trouble remembering your own name. 
Attracting 1.45 million people for the first episode is a result Nine would be very pleased with, however the interesting thing will be to see if the show can maintain that audience next week. It is great the Australian drama has been getting a lot of attention in particular this year from viewers but we cannot forget Canal Road which ended up coming and going so many times, I have a feeling that The Strip will follow this same fate.
The show looked like a very expensive travel promotion from the Queensland Government with a hint of CSI: Miami about it but without the in depth forensic analysis. As Aaron Jeffery’s character Jack Cross entered his first scene on the beach with those sunglasses I was waiting for him to take them off and make an obvious comment like David Caruso’s character. Frankie J Holden’s role in the series is questionable as he is pretty much playing the same role as he did in Underbelly which would be fresh in peoples minds, although he done an alright job.
At the end of the day it is just another typical cop show with nothing really different to offer except that it is based on the Gold Coast and not in Sydney or Melbourne like most shows are, which is a positive but it doesn’t need to be shoved down out throats. It also gives the show the opportunity to have as many women walking around in bikinis as possible to appeal to that male audience right before The Footy Show. The Strip on the Nine Network 8:30 Thursday Night’s.
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