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TV Show Analysis – Charmed & Neutrality: Why neutral beings in Charmed fail (The Cleaners)

Charmed (the original series) revolved around three powerful, sister-witches known as the Charmed Ones who use their powers to fight against evil. In fact, Charmed as a whole is about the ongoing cosmic fight between Good and Evil. However life and magic are not completely black and white, there are shades of grey, including in Charmed, in the form of neutrality, specifically neutral beings. Definition

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Behind the Reviews – Edition #21 (Seachange [Reboot])

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.

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TV Show Analysis – Charmed and Neutrality: Why neutral beings in Charmed fail (The Angel of Death)

Charmed (the original series) revolved around three powerful, sister-witches known as the Charmed Ones who use their powers to fight against evil. In fact, Charmed as a whole is about the ongoing cosmic fight between Good and Evil. However life and magic are not completely black and white, there are shades of grey, including in Charmed, in the form of

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Behind the Reviews – Edition #20 (Sando)

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

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Fisk – Season 2 Finale (Snitches get Riches)

The job of a season finale is to close the season’s story arcs and establish new ones for the next season (if there is one). As Fisk was a show that had self-contained episodes, this job doesn’t apply to them, however they did manage to close out the season by making references to previous episodes over its entire (so far)

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Behind the Reviews – Edition #18 (Playing for Keeps)

Playing for Keeps premiered on 19 September 2018 on Network Ten and focuses on the wives and girlfriends (WAGs) of the players of the fictional AFL club, the Southern Jets. The show specifically focused on five WAGs: Kath, the coach’s wife, Maddy, the wife of a former player/coaching staff member, Tahlia, the captain’s girlfriend, Jessie, the wife of the current

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Behind the Reviews – Edition #17 (My Life Is Murder)

My Life Is Murder premiered on Network Ten on 17 July 2019 and “follows the adventures of fearless private investigator, Alexa Crowe (Lucy Lawless), who solves the most baffling crimes, as well as coping with the frustrations of everyday life.” The first season established the premise and characters of the show – the star, Alexa, a former cop turned police

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