This episode explores environmental impacts and online etiquette. The episode kicks off with Greg, Sophie and Chloe going for a run as part of an environment audit project Sophie is doing for a school assignment. We then see Sophie continuing her audit inside the house, while Greg makes Em morning tea in an effort to try and meet Adam Gilchrist
Read moreI’ll be reviewing this episode character by character. Meryl – Today was D-Day for Meryl, going to court to face the music for her corrupt behaviour. Meryl starts the day at 5.07am getting up to garden, in the first of many efforts to distract herself. Hugh comes up to see her and reminds her that if she discredits Sharna, it
Read moreOnce again, I’m going to review this episode character by character. Ken – This episode was a rarity as the spotlight was on Ken for once. Ken’s parents, Howin and Jing, have surprised him by coming to town and they think he’s a doctor. Ken spends most of the episode pretending to be a doctor to keep the truth from
Read moreThis episode was a simple one, focusing on the concept of death via the death of Chloe’s beloved pet turtle, Hannibal. The episode kicks off with Chloe practising her archery in the backyard, just as she is aiming her arrow, Sophie calls out to her, startling her, to inform her that Hannibal smells. When the family goes in to inspect
Read moreIn the previous episode we saw things through the eyes of the main characters, in this episode we are given the chance to see things through the eyes of the supporting players. The previous episode ended with Michael kicking off attempt #3 of his experiment, with Shawn believing he was still on his second attempt. This episode explores the eventual
Read moreOnce again, I’ll be reviewing this episode character by character. Meryl – As this episode had a large focus on her, I thought it’d best to start with her. The episode opens with Meryl going to see her solicitor about her fraud case. When the solicitor informs her that she’ll have to do jail time, she insults him and storms
Read moreThis episode was all about trivia and alcohol. While the Butler family have spent the last two episodes being paired off, interestingly, this episode focuses more on Greg, Em, Terry, Marlo, Luna and the other parents, than it does on the family as a whole, especially with the absence of Chloe. The trivia night that Greg talked about in the
Read moreI’m going to review this episode character by character. Ajax, Hayley and Tom – While they weren’t necessarily the biggest focus of the episode, this episode did jump start two story arcs focusing on them: Hayley cheating on Ajax, and Ajax developing a gambling problem. Once again Hayley is taken for granted by everyone in the family when Hugh dumps
Read moreNow that the premiere has aired, the fun can really begin. This episode was once again set in realistic circumstances with the family split up but not entirely paired off. Greg and Chloe were stuck with each other in the house all day on a Saturday as both Em and Sophie were at work. Chloe has been struggling to sleep
Read moreThe job of a season premiere is to establish new story arcs and subplots for the season. I felt that this season premiere did a decent but not perfect job. As I wrote the review of the season 2 finale on 13 April 2020 (over a year ago), I had to remind myself where we (the viewers) were left off
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