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TV№ 01
Boy Swallows Universe and what Netflix actually paid for
Twenty months after Netflix dropped the Trent Dalton adaptation in January 2024, the show has aged into one of the few streamer-funded Australian dramas that didn't get cancelled out of spite.
RHYS TAVITA07.05.2026
ESSAYS№ 02
Australian novels keep becoming Australian films and the novels keep winning
The adaptation pipeline from page to screen is the steadiest production line in Australian cinema, and the question is whether the films are earning the books or borrowing from them.
MARA DENG22.04.2025
MUSIC№ 03
Boy Swallows Universe soundtracks Brisbane in the 1980s with precision and one deliberate lie
The needle drops are forensically accurate to 1985 Brisbane except for the one song that is not, and that exception tells you everything about what the show thinks nostalgia is for.
KIERAN BOUSTANY24.09.2024
TV№ 04
Boy Swallows Universe turned a Brisbane memoir into Netflix content and it mostly survived
The adaptation of Trent Dalton's novel is charming, violent, and uncertain about its own tone in exactly the same proportions as its source material.
RHYS TAVITA10.09.2024
ESSAYS№ 05
Australian coming-of-age films keep growing up in the wrong suburbs
The kids in Australian cinema grow up in small towns, coastal edges, and outer suburbs, and the geography is never accidental.
MARA DENG20.07.2022