As Australian born in the 90s, I was too young to watch this when it was being released. After watching the reboot, I decided to give it a go.
This was definitely an Australian version of Degrassi. Where it was heavily dramatise, it also held a fair amount of truth of growing up in Australia.
The first season to me, really dragged on. However, it was good to set up the characters that would then carry the second season to be an actual decent show. As someone in their thirties now, I really respected the stories from the teachers view as a contrast to the students. It shows the struggles that teachers also go through and how they can be misunderstood by students.
I feel the reason this show gets higher ratings are by people who grew up with this show. It's not a masterpiece for sure but it's a good time capsule of an era.
This was definitely an Australian version of Degrassi. Where it was heavily dramatise, it also held a fair amount of truth of growing up in Australia.
The first season to me, really dragged on. However, it was good to set up the characters that would then carry the second season to be an actual decent show. As someone in their thirties now, I really respected the stories from the teachers view as a contrast to the students. It shows the struggles that teachers also go through and how they can be misunderstood by students.
I feel the reason this show gets higher ratings are by people who grew up with this show. It's not a masterpiece for sure but it's a good time capsule of an era.