Now that the first issue of Minx is out in the world, the team need to focus on a new problem to fix, sales, or rather lack thereof. The episode kicks off with Joyce going into a shop to see a copy of Minx on the magazine shelves (seeing and dismissing a copy of an erotic novel, Aphrodisia, on her
Read moreThis episode took the show in a slightly different direction by exploring Doug’s connections to the mob, and a studio turf war at the Bottom Dollar office. Interestingly, the episode doesn’t kick off with the main characters, rather a family consisting of Vince, his wife, Francesca, and their two children having dinner. When Francesca tells Vince about big ticket items
Read moreThis episode has the team hold their first press conference for Minx, Joyce and Shane hook up (and Joyce having to deal with the consequences that come with it), and Doug and Tina having to deal head on with Bottom Dollar’s financial problems. The episode begins with the team rehearsing the press conference with Joyce and Shane being subjected to
Read moreWhile Minx has only hit internal speed bumps so far, this time it’s faced with its first real-world obstacle with the arrival of a new local councilwoman. When Joyce arrives at work with boards for the first issue, she finds the police raiding the Bottom Dollar Publications’ office. When she asks one of the police officers what has happened, he
Read moreNow that the pilot has established the show’s settings and characters, the fun can really begin. This episode focuses on Doug and Joyce courting advertisers to bring in revenue for Minx, kicking off with Bambi on a photoshoot, posing as a school teacher at ‘Naughty Girl High’. Now that Joyce has inspired her, she is questioning the backstory of the
Read moreFisk premiered on 17 March 2021 on the ABC. Fisk revolves “around the life of lawyer, Helen Tudor-Fisk, who leaves Sydney after her career and marriage fall apart. She returns to Melbourne and takes a job at Gruber & Gruber, a small suburban firm, specialising in wills and probate.” Fisk was a show my mother recommended to me, as opposed
Read moreThe job of a pilot is to establish a show’s premise and characters. This pilot did its job perfectly. We are introduced to Joyce Prigger (Ophelia Lovibond) by a daydream she has of winning a Pulitzer Prize, giving a speech talking about how Gloria Steinem is her inspiration, only for Joyce (and us) to be brought back to reality when
Read moreThis episode has a new story with Kelly & Craig who have booked six nights at the beach holiday house. The episode kicks off with Kelly & Craig settling in, with Kelly unpacking her yoga bag, finding her contraceptive pills, which Craig jokes about taking, but not her sunglasses. When Kelly realises that she left her sunglasses at Craig’s mother’s
Read moreThe job of a show’s pilot is to establish its premise and characters. This show did a good job. The TV Week 2022 Preview’s edition described Summer Love as an “anthology series on eight different stories across eight episodes set at the same beach holiday house.” This means that this show has a revolving cast in each episode, however the
Read moreDoctor Doctor premiered on 14 September 2016 on the Nine Network and focuses on Dr. Hugh Knight, a high-flying heart surgeon who is forced to work in his hometown of Whyhope for a year as a local GP, as part of a punishment for going on a drug bender that results in a woman overdosing. The pilot does the job
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