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My Life Is Murder – Season 3 Premiere (It Takes Two)

The job of a season premiere is to establish new story arcs for the season. As each episode of My Life Is Murder is generally self-contained and there aren’t any story arcs, this job didn’t apply to them, however the season got off to a great start with a compelling mystery and Reuben taking on a more active role. The

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Fisk – Season 2, Episode 2 (Faithful Friends are Hard to Find)

This episode has Roz starting a new business, Helen dealing with two clients, and George getting a new gaming chair. The episode kicks off with Helen going into Blendology, hoping that they now have a new coffee machine. This time, she agrees to get a chicory smoothie, only to find it’s too thick for her to drink through the paper

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Behind the Reviews – Edition #14 (Love Child)

Love Child was a unique show for me to review as it was based on real-life forced adoption that happened in Australia between the 1950s and 1980s. The forced adoption practices during this period consisted of applying the ‘clean break’ theory and the framework of closed adoption. The ‘clean break’ theory involved removing the baby from the mother immediately after

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Behind the Reviews – Edition #13 (Hyde & Seek)

Hyde & Seek premiered on 3 October 2016 on the Nine Network. A drama thriller series, Hyde & Seek’s premise was described as follows: “When his best mate is killed in a seemingly random attack, Detective Gary Hyde (Matt Nable) vows to bring the killers to justice. Together with his new partner Claire McKenzie (Emma Hamilton), Gary uncovers a criminal

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Summer Love – Season 1 Finale (Frankie & Trevor)

The job of a season finale is to bring the season’s story arcs and subplots to a close and establish new ones for the next season (if there is another one). This show is unique as it was an anthology series, so it didn’t have story arcs, rather individual self-contained stories revolving around the same setting, a beach holiday house,

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Summer Love – Season 1, Episode 7 (Hannah & Alex)

This episode went in a different direction to the previous ones with two sisters only having the holiday house for one night and the use of flashbacks throughout it. Interestingly, the episode kicks off with Hannah sitting in her car in her driveway and not at the holiday house. She’s ignoring phone calls from her work, her mother, and a

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Summer Love – Season 1, Episode 6 (Charlie & Zeke)

So we’ve had two married couples, two long-term couples, and two divorcees sharing the house, and in this episode we had a couple on a trial separation. The episode kicks off with Charlie dragging her suitcase into the house during a thunderstorm and having a nice relaxing bath that is interrupted by the arrival of her husband, Zeke, and her

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