The Last Straw

Season 2, Episode 27, Aired

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The Blue Heelers are embroiled in a bovine saga when a farmer's prize bull is shot dead. Meanwhile on the personal front, Adam realises that Chris is not remotely interested in him.
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  • When a herd cows get loose in Mount Thomas, the Heelers becomes embroiled with a bovine saga that deepens when a farmer's prize bull is shot dead. Watchable but average, not one of the season's best episodes...moreless

    7.5
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    By Jay-Spacedust, Mar 31, 2011
    This review contains spoilers.

    'The Last Straw' is a fair second season episode, I suppose, and there are certainly a few from previously in the season that I felt to be maybe a bit weaker than this one. But at this same time, it is not really one of the show's best offerings, and it does bring to end a string of particularly strong stories that stretches back quite a few episodes previous to this.

    The story starts off amusingly what are all of these cows doing all over the place?! It leads onto a fair but not overly interesting tale about a shot bull, and valuable bull semen used for artificial insemination (!). In terms of plot, I can't say it's on of BH's better ones; thankfully, as usually is the case, the episode is saved from falling flat by some nice character moments.

    I also like the strand about Tom's dog (appropriately, a Blue Heeler), which gets loose, and is shot by trigger-happy poachers. (Thankfully, Wayne and Adam find it in time). This is actually probably my favourite element from the episode.

    To be honest, with a duller than usual plot, my attention started to wander at a couple of points; so I never fully understood the whole thing about the cows being on the loose in the first place (sounds like the plot from a bad cartoon!), and couldn't really care that much about the whole valuable bull semen thing.

    This is actually one of the earliest episodes of 'Blue Heelers' that I can remember watching; as mentioned on some of my previous episode reviews for the series, my local ITV region here in the U.K., (the rather cheap and cheerful) Carlton, ran the series on Monday afternoons. I was at college at the time, but would sometimes have Monday afternoons off for studying and catch moments of BH episodes. After being taken in my the odd glimpse I had seen over the previous few weeks, I think this may well have been one of (if not the) first episode that I watched right through.

    All-in-all, this one did feel slightly to be a "filler" instalment in my book. Pretty dull plot, but saved by some decent character sequences, and some nice moments of fun, which at least allow me to give it a decent but not outstanding 7.5.moreless
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