Here Come the Habibs is one of the first new shows I reviewed when I launched my reviews content in 2016. It premiered on 9 February 2016, attracting controversy before it even aired its pilot. The controversy of the show’s premiere was due to the assumptions that some of the general public made about the show being racist. I said
Read moreSo far the series has explored long-term heterosexual relationships, an estranged father-son relationship, and two divorcees finding love after learning from their mistakes. This episode is the first to explore a same-sex relationship. Luke and Olly are going to the beach house to celebrate their anniversary. Olly has got some kind of romantic dinner planned with a chicken hidden in
Read moreThis episode explore what happens when the beach house is double booked, and has the show’s creators and writers star in it. The episode kicks off with Marion arriving, unpacking and making ice-cream. Once she is settled in, showered and standing on the balcony with a towel wrapped around herself, she is surprised by Eddy’s arrival. They clash immediately and
Read moreHarrow premiered on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on 9 March 2018. Harrow revolves around the titular Dr. Daniel Harrow (Ioan Gruffudd), a Queensland-based forensic pathologist who assists Queensland Police with murder cases. Alongside the cases of the week, a mysterious story arc revolving around Harrow’s personal life is played out over each season. Season 1 – The cases of
Read moreThe job of a season finale is to wrap up the season’s story arcs and establish new ones for the next season. I feel that this finale did its job. The episode kicks off with radio host, Willy Wilkerson, from the Willy and Franco radio show, being subjected to a hand job from his unhappy wife, Wanda, after she has
Read moreThe previous two episodes explored love between friends and couples, this episode focuses on family love. Imran has booked the holiday house for two nights as he has booked a gig at the Surf Lifesaving Club for his band, Obvious Choice, which consists of him, Sukhdeep and Caitlyn. It’s soon revealed that Imran booked the gig to avoid meeting his
Read moreNow that Joyce has quit Minx and left it in Doug’s hands, what’s going to happen now? We start this episode with that question hanging over our heads. Interestingly, the episode doesn’t kick off with the main players, but rather Shelly dreaming about being seduced only to get distracted by the realities of her life, only to wake up to
Read moreFive Bedrooms premiered on 15 May 2019 on Network Ten and tells the story of “five people at different times of their lives. They bond after they find themselves seated together at the singles table at a wedding. After a few too many drinks, the solution to all of their problems seems to be buying a house together, a five
Read moreThis episode has Minx starting to rise and fall, and provides an insight into Joyce’s past. The episode kicks off with Joyce living in a hippy commune of some kind in Yonkers in 1968, three years before she meets Doug in the pilot. We see her collecting a handful of chicken eggs out of a coop, we then are brought
Read moreDespite things looking grim at the end of the previous episode, with the Woodbridge college protest ostensibly getting out of control, it actually leads to Minx finally becoming successful. The episode kicks off days after the end of the previous episode, with a television news report on the protest which includes a vox pop on Minx and quotes from an
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