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[ABC]
TV№ 01
Total Control season two raises the stakes and Deborah Mailman raises them higher
Mailman's Alex Irving has the numbers, the enemies, and the prime ministership within reach, and the show is ruthless about what each one costs.
RHYS TAVITA12.03.2024
TV№ 02
Fisk season three still works because Kitty Flanagan refuses to let Helen be likeable
Helen Fisk remains the worst person in every room she enters, and the show remains the funniest thing on ABC because of it.
RHYS TAVITA30.01.2024
TV№ 03
The Newsreader keeps getting the small things wrong on purpose
Season two proves that the best Australian drama on television is the one most willing to look silly in a period wig.
RHYS TAVITA20.08.2023
TV№ 04
Fires dramatised the 2019 bushfires before the country had finished processing them
The ABC made a miniseries about the Black Summer fires less than two years after the smoke cleared, and the question is not whether it was too soon but whether it was enough.
RHYS TAVITA22.02.2022
TV№ 05
Why Are You Like This is the angriest comedy on ABC and it knows exactly who it is yelling at
The show is loud, furious, and performatively woke in the way that only a genuinely smart comedy can sustain without collapsing.
RHYS TAVITA18.05.2021
TV№ 06
Frayed season two brings Sarah Kendall back to Newcastle and the cringe back to ABC
Kendall plays a woman who faked her life in London and came home to Newcastle, and the show's best trick is that Newcastle does not care.
RHYS TAVITA22.03.2021
TV№ 07
Harrow keeps solving murders in Brisbane and Brisbane keeps looking good doing it
The ABC's forensic pathologist procedural is not trying to be prestige television, and its refusal to apologise for being a well-made genre show is its best quality.
RHYS TAVITA24.02.2021
TV№ 08
Total Control gives Deborah Mailman the prime ministership and then makes her fight for every room
Mailman plays an Indigenous senator thrown into federal politics, and the show is smart enough to make the Canberra corridors feel as dangerous as any outback.
RHYS TAVITA14.10.2020
TV№ 09
Stateless arrived at exactly the wrong time and that made it necessary
A show about immigration detention centres premiered during a pandemic lockdown, and somehow the timing made it more urgent rather than less.
RHYS TAVITA18.05.2020
TV№ 10
Mystery Road and the quiet business of not explaining
Aaron Pedersen's detective does not monologue, does not explain, and does not care whether you are keeping up.
RHYS TAVITA04.02.2020
TV№ 11
What Australian television has coming in 2020 and why you should care
The ABC has a political thriller, Stan has a Cate Blanchett immigration drama, and Foxtel has whatever Foxtel always has, which is good television nobody subscribes to watch.
RHYS TAVITA22.01.2020