The job of a season premiere is to establish the season’s story arcs and pick up on any arcs that were started or left behind at the end of the previous season. This pilot did its job, but not perfectly. The episode makes it clear from the beginning that a year has passed and shows Eliza tending to patients with
Read moreThe job of a series finale is to bring a series and its final season’s story arcs to a satisfying close. I feel that this finale did its job well, but it would have been done perfectly, had the season been longer than four episodes. The episode kicks off with Real Nathan pulling off Nora’s VR Goggles and the two
Read moreThe job of a season finale is to wrap up the season’s story arcs and subplots, and to provide new story arcs and subplots for the second season (if there is one). I felt this finale did its job perfectly. The episode kicks off with Lauren, Daffy and Trev seeing Taya off to the Tiwi Islands, with Taya giving Lauren
Read moreThis episode is all about winning and losing, and not just on the footy field. The episode kicks off in unique fashion, with a split screen of Lauren’s and Ned’s lives as they currently live apart, showing the contrast in Ned competently looking after Leroy and his boys, and Lauren struggling to look after Taya. Daffy and Trevor push Lauren
Read moreThis episode is all about discoveries, good and bad. The episode kicks off with Taya’s footy game, and Leroy and Ned arguing over Ned’s coaching style, as Taya has scored the team’s only point and they have lost by over 50 points. Later, Cowboy surprises Lauren at the supermarket to cash in his favour, telling her to register a horse
Read moreThis episode is all about ‘faking it until you make it’ in a variety of ways. The episode kicks off with Lauren pretending to be sick on the day of a local fundraiser, so she has the time to sneak off to the Tiwi Islands to see Jarad Kirilima. However, Daffy immediately knows she’s faking it, and makes up her
Read moreThe job of a penultimate episode is to act as a springboard for the season (and in this case, series) finale. Whilst it was rushed, this penultimate episode provided some decent springboards for the finale. The episode kicks off with Real Nathan’s captivity and torture at the hands of Horizen being shown, with the reveal that Horizen’s new MRI technology
Read moreThis episode, which marks the halfway point of the season, is all about Taya’s ninth birthday. The episode kicks off with Lauren and Ned getting ready for Taya’s birthday party, with Ned having stayed up all night to bake her three-tier birthday cake and make healthy snacks for her friends to eat. Ned tells Lauren that his mother, Annie, is
Read moreThis episode sees Lauren, Ned and Taya eventually getting into a rhythm as a family. The episode kicks off with Lauren and Ned trying to have sex in the campervan, only to be interrupted by Taya coming in and throwing a frog at them thinking it’s the devil. The episode then cuts to Lauren getting a call from Taya’s school
Read moreNow that the pilot has come and gone, the fun can really begin by going deeper into the season. This episode focuses more on the reality that Lauren and Ned find themselves in, with the episode kicking off on Lauren packing up her office and Ned packing up his café. When Lauren and Ned go back to Darwin, they, along
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