Archive for March, 2021

New ABC drama Wakefield takes viewers to the edge of sanity

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

Kristen Dunphy admits that basing a drama on her own experiences inside a psychiatric hospital was very confronting, and risky.

New ABC drama Wakefield takes viewers to the edge of sanity

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

Kristen Dunphy admits that basing a drama on her own experiences inside a psychiatric hospital was very confronting, and risky.

Show about the elderly has more guilt than the usual social experiment

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds trades in guilt and feel-good vibes, though as we know now the actual living conditions of older Australian is pretty bleak.

Josh Thomas wants you to know that everything isn’t going to be OK

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

The comedian’s US dramedy Everything Is Gonna Be Okay overcame COVID restrictions and returns for a second season, but don’t expect things to be, like, OK.

Once an agenda setter, Q&A is no longer essential viewing

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

The ABC’s “town hall” discussion show was always divisive – a feisty finale to Monday’s current affairs line-up. Shunted to Thursdays, it struggles to be heard.

Wynonna Earp is chasing down low-lifes in imaginative fantasy series

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

The murderers Wyatt Earp sent to the gallows are making life difficult for his great-great-granddaughter in the present-day town of Purgatory.

It’s a thin line between madness and sanity in psych-ward drama Wakefield

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

This eight-piece series is a wildly ambitious attempt to grapple with the challenges, the humour and the pain of mental health, and it mostly succeeds.

It’s a thin line between madness and sanity in psych-ward drama Wakefield

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

This eight-piece series is a wildly ambitious attempt to grapple with the challenges, the humour and the pain of mental health, and it mostly succeeds.

Amanda Gorman’s poetry united critics. It’s dividing translators

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb, the poem about a “skinny black girl” that she recited at US presidential inauguration, has become fuelled debate about identity politics, and who has the right to translate a work.

Amanda Gorman’s poetry united critics. It’s dividing translators

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb, the poem about a “skinny black girl” that she recited at US presidential inauguration, has become fuelled debate about identity politics, and who has the right to translate a work.