McLeod's Daughter's - The Complete Fifth Season

This has to be one of the best chick flicks ever made. I have purchased all of the series except the last # 7 and 8. I sit and watch at least 4 hours a night. I will be purchasing the last ones soon. I just can't wait to see the next one. Birdie ( Tess) has to be one of Australias best actresses. It makes me sad that it has ended and there won't be anymore McLeods Daughters. They make you cry and laugh and you almost feel like you are in the movie or part of the family. I love it.

I absolutely love McLeod's Daughter's. This is one of the best TV shows I've seen. I feel like I'm right there with them. I am anxiously awaiting Season 6 and I miss the people. I may have to watch Season 5 over again until I get Season 6. I feel like part of family. I get so into this show it's like don't bother me when I'm watching. I was really sorry when it was taken off of TV in the US. I should be receiving Season 6 soon and then I'll be looking for Season 7. I think it only goes to S8 or S9. But a really terrific fantastic show. I highly recomnnend to anyone.

In the reviews for McLeod's Daughters Seasons 1-4, the show is described as an Aussie Soap Opera. I couldn't figure out why, especially with seasons 1-3, which kind of seemed like the type of dramas we have in the US in the evening. After what happened at the end of season 3, I didn't expect season 4 of the show to be the as good, and it wasn't, but I have to say that Season 5 is nowhere near as good as 1-3, or even 4. I finally see why they have described McLeod's Daughters as a soap opera. Season 5 is just plain unrealistic (this coming from a city girl from the US--how would I know--I can only imagine how unrealistic this is to an Australian cattle farmer). The show used to be about a farm run by women, and their friends, and it has turned into a bunch of women and their friends who just so happen to live on a farm. It has become almost all about the characters and not at all about the farm, they hardly seem to do any work, hanging around, drinking tea and beer, once in a while mustering sheep or cattle, bird twitching contests, several ridiculous episodes where Sally goes to the hospital and Nick has to "take care of Harrison" over at the cottage (rather than staying at Drovers with the baby and Tess), a high school reunion hiking trip, the same love story that played out between Claire and Alex is playing out with Stevie and Alex (she loves him but never says anything, they carry on as just "mates"), the songs at the end, when the credits are rolling, have nothing to do with the episode half the time and just seem out of place to me, I can't see how Alex could be running Killarny with all the time he spends at Drovers, Meg is coming and going (and going again), and more. Tess and Nick leave for Argentina somewhere around disc 3 and don't come back till disk 7 or 8 and I can't say that I even noticed that they were gone, the show was not better or worse for their absence. Episodes 135-137 are good. It just goes to show that the show is not the same without Claire, Seasons 4 and 5 are just nowhere near as good. I cannot imagine where seasons 6-8 are headed. I can't say it wasn't worth the price ($55), and I will probably buy the rest of the seasons anyway, just because I want to see what happens, but really, this season is worse than season 4 which was worse than 1-3. I see a trend here. I am sure that another McLeods fan will come along and give a much more positive review than this one, but in all fairness I cant rate this higher because the quality is going way down.

This is a wonderful series. I am an Aussie and it definitely is very authentic - except for the cattle duffing (rustling) bits -it hugely overplays the crime situation, however I guess that makes for good tension. I came from a West Australian cattle station so I am very familiar with outback life - although this is semi rural the problems are very similar. American audiences may have some difficulty with the language. We are as some wit said two countries separated by a common language

The series has had a very serious decline since season 3!! They just about about assassinated Tess's character beginning season 4 and it just got worse as the series continued. They had her marry a liar and cheater that Nick is and then stand by as he kept doing her wrong over and over but somehow it was always Tess apologizing to Nick!!! The writers took her dream of having children with Nick and took them away by making his first child with another woman that Nick chooses over Tess! When she gets pregnant with his child it will always be his second child and all the first time experiences that a wife and husband have together with their first child is gone. Tess gets run over and shows weakness and stupidity from season 4 on and I was a fan of hers. It's become a soap opera and none of the characters are like Clair's, honest, respectable kind intelligent and loving. She was the only character that had those traits but I was waiting for Tess to become that but failed. 5 stars for seasons 1-3 but that rating goes down each year as 4-8 happen.

Ok,OK I know...It's not as good as seasons 1-3...well,compare the slight decline in script quality to US productions in their 5th season...and this holds up OK...several very good episodes including Jodie's paternity and Tess's return to Drover's(she was in real life having her son and unfortunately is only on next season for 8 episodes) I grow to like Stevie more and more and look forward to her and Alex eventually getting together in season 7 and Moira is a suitable Meg surrogate...all in all good to very good but never hitting excellent...hope next season has ONE standoout episode like My Noon,My MIdnight...

Another great year in the saga. I do wish the person that chose the title had used a different title. Such as "Women of Australia", or "Women of Drover's Run". Then, the series could've gone on longer. One of the seasons, had a mistake in the first tape. Not sure if it was this series or the last one since I reviewed them long after watching. But the mistake was in the first tape and it was a step backward. I actually wondered if I was playing them out of order. Previous tape had Tess pregnant, then the next season had Tess wondering if they should have children due to the cardiomyopathy being hereditary.