The job of a season finale is to tie up the season’s story arcs and loose ends, and set up story arcs for the next season (if there is one). I feel that this finale did a good, but not great job. I will be reviewing this episode character by character.
Read moreConsidering the surprise party disaster was caused by Ben and was the climax of the previous episode, as well as the fact that Ben’s actions at the end of this episode lead to a surprising domino effect and twist ending, it’s only fitting that he is the narrator of this episode, the penultimate one of the season. The episode kicks
Read moreNow that all of the main characters have narrated at least one episode, I wondered whether the writers would continue with a rotating narrator, and if so, who they would go with? Would they keep the same rotation and start all over again with Ainsley? The answer to my two questions was yes and no. Yes, the rotating narrator would
Read moreAs everyone else has told their story, so to speak, it didn’t surprise me that this episode switched the narrator to Harry and focused on him. This episode mainly focuses on Harry’s tug of war between wanting to be with Pete and coming out to his mother. Harry and Pete manage to have a great second date and hook up,
Read moreIn this episode, the narrator is switched to Liz and focuses on her life, or rather the fact that it is spiralling out of control. Liz talks about her life in her old, predictably large house, and then compares it to life in the house with the others. When she comes home from work, Harry tells her they’ve been robbed
Read moreAs I predicted in my review of the previous episode, this episode switches the narrator to Ben and focuses on him. The gang have been living in the house together for a couple of months now and Ben’s behaviour—specifically his apparently slow pace of getting the house painting finished, sending his tradie mates to Harry for skin checks, and his
Read moreNow that the pilot has aired and the premise and characters of the show has been established, the fun of story arcs and subplots can begin. This episode switches its focus and narrator to Heather, as the pilot ended with the gang agreeing to swap Lachlan with Heather.
Read moreThe job of a pilot is to establish the show’s premise and characters, I feel this pilot did the perfect job. The pilot kicks off at a wedding with five people delegated to the dreaded singles’ table: Liz (a lawyer), Ben (a tradie, who has been set up with Liz), Harry (a doctor and Liz’s best friend who is gay
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