Loveday Writing

The Time Traveler’s Wife premiered on HBO on 15 May 2022 and is an adaptation of the 2003 novel of the same name by Audrey Niffenegger. For those who are unfamiliar with the novel, it is about the love story of Henry and Clare. Henry has inherited a condition which causes him to time travel throughout his life (on rare

The Secret Daughter premiered on 3 October 2016 on the Seven Network. The Secret Daughter stars singer, Jessica Mauboy as “Billie Carter, a part-time country pub singer, whose life changes forever after a chance meeting with wealthy city hotelier, Jack Norton.” I wrote in my review of the pilot that I didn’t know what to expect from the show and

The Newsreader premiered on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on 15 August 2021, the show focuses on “an unconventional relationship in a world on the cusp of change; a star newsreader and an ambitious reporter join forces in a ruthless 1986 newsroom, as events unfold that will change their lives.” The main characters consist of Dale, an ambitious reporter paired

The Good Place premiered on 19 September 2016 on NBC and focuses on an afterlife that humans are sent to called the Good Place (Heaven) or the Bad Place (Hell) based on the score they’ve received on the morality of their actions in life. Season 1 – The pilot introduces us to Eleanor Shellstrop who meets Good Place neighbourhood architect,

Street Smart premiered on Network Ten on 5 August 2018 and was described in that year’s TV Week Previews edition as a “hilarious and entertaining look at a team of bumbling crims who dream of fast cars, attractive women and getting rich quick.” Street Smart was created by Rob Shehadie and Tahir Bilgic, who also created Here Come the Habibs,

Squinters premiered on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on 7 February 2018 and follows “five car loads of travellers, on the road, to and from work, wrestling with the conundrums of daily life.” I felt that Squinters was a unique show for many reasons: its focus purely on the characters’ commute to and from work, all the characters being put

Speechless is a U.S. television series that premiered on the ABC (American Broadcasting Company) on 21 September 2016 and aired in Australia on Peach briefly in 2017. Speechless focuses on the DiMeo family (parents Jimmy and Maya and their three kids: JJ, Ray, and Dylan) who have recently moved into the worst house in the best street of a nice

This is the first Behind the Reviews edition to focus on two shows, and that’s because one show is a remake of the other. Sisters premiered on Network Ten on 25 October 2017 and follows Julia Bechly, who discovers that her father, IVF pioneer, Dr. Julius Bechly, used his own sperm on his patients and is potentially the father of

This is a unique Behind the Reviews edition as it focuses on the Australian TV series, Seachange, specifically its fourth season. The reason why I’ve titled my reviews of Seachange’s fourth season as season one of the Seachange (Reboot) is due to TV Week’s and the Nine Network’s promotion of the fourth season as a reboot of the original series.

Sando premiered on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on 21 March 2018. Sando revolves around titular character, Victoria ‘Sando’ Sandringham who “needs to reconnect with her family to revive her business and find personal redemption. The only problem is they mostly hate her, mostly.” The pilot did a good job of establishing the premise and its characters of a successful