We watch Australian dramas with the hope of supporting them. And I'm sure that the cast & crew of Exposure believe in this project.
But unfortunately, we found Exposure such a hard thing to sit through. We got three episodes in and had to call it quits. Almost nothing happens. And it's hard to care about anything that does happen.
We're given no reason to care or be interested in any of the characters. A young woman who sleeps with lots of men but also harbours resentment towards them should be a great place to mine material and really explore that - but what we see onscreen is just a series of dry, meandering scenes.
The camera lingers way too long on scenes of nothing. Like, just walking off a train and up a street takes forever. With "unearned" music accompanying the scene. The first conversation between the main character and her mother seems manufactured, to try to insert conflict that feels unearned.
The scene of the main character taking pictures she won a comp for is the only scene I could point to as having any impact. I felt like it should have been the first scene of the first episode of the entire series. And let everything feed off that. When she won the comp, she could have felt proud of herself, but then later hated herself for taking that picture. I wanted to see that kind of inner conflict, leading into hidden layers as the story unfolds. But I didn't get that.
There is nothing wrong with the acting of the characters - I just wish they had something to do. And I wish the story made us care. It wasn't the show for us - adults in their early 30s. Might resonate more with others.