What's particularly fascinating about Return to Eden episode two is how little really happens. I can't tell whether it's part of an extraordinarily clever artistic decision to let us relax on a deep tissue level between the traumatic attack/revenge of episodes 1 and 3, or whether it was originally only a two part drama and they were sitting around one afternoon and decided for the ubiquitous shits and giggles they'd make a middle episode, off the cuff as it were.
Not to say that there isn't so much amazing stuff going on in #2, just that it seems so loose and random. The fashion shoot/fashion show scenes are a trip. The excruciating sequence, which must take about 20 minutes out of the 1.5 hours, where Tara spends a (curtailed) weekend with Greg at her own old mansion...
Love Wendy Hughes' Jilly in particular but Chris Heywood as the gay-in-everything-but-his-deep-love-for-Tara photographer is a sensational type we don't see on our screens much anymore. But the whole thing. I bet all the time they were making it they were saying 'they won't make 'em like this anymore'. And I don't think they have.
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