Picnic at Hanging Rock - Season 1
After they prepare their things to go on an outing to Hanging Rock with their governesses, the three schoolgirls suddenly disappeared on their way. No one knows why and who did this for them.
1934, Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
21 February 1964, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK
30 July 1957, Australia
8 February 1992, Melbourne, Australia
26 July 1972, Cape Town, South Africa
23 February 1992, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
15 April 1952, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
June 08, 2018
With its convoluted plot, flights of fantasy and a pacing that speeds up and slows down unexpectedly, "Picnic" may frustrate some viewers...[but] it's something different, and perfect for a hot summer night of streaming.May 29, 2018
Directors Larysa Kondracki, Amanda Brotchie, and Michael Rymer twist this low-budget epic into an eye-popping, surreal mystery with complex characters and consummate camp.May 14, 2018
The magic of Picnic at Hanging Rock lies in the not knowing, a sort of withheld resolution that nudged other open-ended stories, such as Twin Peaks, from works of art to genuine masterpieces.June 14, 2018
Everything is amplified to the extreme: the sensuality, the violence, the suffocating symbolism of all those corsets and stockings.May 25, 2018
The story centers around the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and one teacher on Valentine's Day in 1900 and the subsequent investigation, covering its impact on students, families and staff.May 29, 2018
It's a very new, very valid take on some timelessly creepy material.May 14, 2018
Beatrix Christian's narrative is complex, articulate and a work of some philosophical depth...It's filmed in such a provocative, highly conceptual way.May 23, 2018
[Natalie] Dormer is the best thing about "Picnic at Hanging Rock..." But she's not the only worthwhile aspect of the miniseries, even if the story may be a bit overextended at six hours.May 29, 2018
If Weir's film was a romantic, surreal, shimmering mystery-Twin Peaks by way of John Keats-the new Hanging Rock is a more Gothic work of horror, revealing the rot that permeates the blooms of the Victorian bouquet.May 22, 2018
Sadly, this feels unlikely to be a Handmaid's Tale-level hit for Amazon, for while it's solid enough to warrant a look, it's also a bit too inconsistent and bloated to rise above the crowd.