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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 cinema keeps filming the outback and forgetting the towns in between
The films get made in Sydney and Melbourne, the stories get set in the outback, and the actual regional cities where most Australians live barely appear at all.
MARA DENG16.09.2025
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
TV№ 05
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