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,
Read moreThis 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
Read moreSo 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
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.
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.
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 moreThis episode has a new story with Kelly & Craig who have booked six nights at the beach holiday house. The episode kicks off with Kelly & Craig settling in, with Kelly unpacking her yoga bag, finding her contraceptive pills, which Craig jokes about taking, but not her sunglasses. When Kelly realises that she left her sunglasses at Craig’s mother’s
Read moreThe job of a show’s pilot is to establish its premise and characters. This show did a good job. The TV Week 2022 Preview’s edition described Summer Love as an “anthology series on eight different stories across eight episodes set at the same beach holiday house.” This means that this show has a revolving cast in each episode, however the
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