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TV№ 01
Scrublands sends a journalist to a country town and trusts the silence to do the rest
Luke Arnold drives into a drought-stricken town where a priest shot five men, and the show's best quality is that nobody wants to explain why.
RHYS TAVITA22.10.2025
TV№ 02
Nautilus built Captain Nemo in Queensland and sent him to sea without enough story
The production is gorgeous, the submarine is a set worth living in, and the scripts needed three more drafts.
RHYS TAVITA22.10.2024
TV№ 03
Troppo takes the crime novel to Far North Queensland and lets the humidity do the interrogation
Thomas Jane plays an American ex-con hiding in the tropics, and the show's best trick is treating Cairns like it is as foreign as he finds it.
RHYS TAVITA18.07.2024
INDUSTRY№ 04
Stan's subscriber number is not the whole story
Nine says Stan is growing, and it is, but the margins tell a more cautious tale.
ODETTE MALOUF22.02.2024
INDUSTRY№ 05
Stan's original content slate shrank by a third and the strategy behind it is silence
Nine cut Stan's original commissions from twelve to eight in 2023, and the company has not explained the rationale publicly.
ODETTE MALOUF08.11.2023
TV№ 06
The Artful Dodger puts a surgeon's scalpel in a pickpocket's hand and hopes you will not notice
Stan's Dickens sequel is set in colonial Australia, stars Thomas Brodie-Sangster as a surgeon, and is exactly as unhinged as that pitch meeting must have been.
RHYS TAVITA28.09.2023
TV№ 07
The Tourist treats the outback like a character who does not speak
Jamie Dornan wakes up in a hospital in the middle of South Australia with no memory, and the show is smart enough to let that confusion do most of the heavy lifting.
RHYS TAVITA19.01.2023
TV№ 08
Bump is the most honest show about Western Sydney and nobody outside Bankstown knows it exists
A show about a teenage pregnancy in Bankstown should not be this funny, this specific, or this invisible to the broader Australian audience.
RHYS TAVITA08.08.2022
TV№ 09
Under the Vines is a postcard from New Zealand that Australia co-signed
Rebecca Gibney and Charles Edwards inherit a vineyard in Central Otago, and the show knows that the landscape is doing most of the acting.
RHYS TAVITA26.07.2022
TV№ 10
Eden drops a backpacker thriller in Byron Bay and lets the paradise rot from the inside
Stan's backpacker thriller uses Byron Bay the way horror films use fog: it looks beautiful and you cannot see what is coming.
RHYS TAVITA24.01.2022
TV№ 11
Bump dropped a baby into Bankstown and did not explain itself
Stan's teen pregnancy comedy set in Western Sydney treats its multicultural cast as furniture rather than subject matter, and that is the most radical thing about it.
RHYS TAVITA12.10.2021
TV№ 12
Nine Perfect Strangers and the wellness retreat that eats itself
Nicole Kidman plays a wellness guru who microdoses her guests, and somehow that is not the strangest choice the show makes.
RHYS TAVITA26.08.2021
TV№ 13
The Gloaming set a murder mystery in Hobart and let the cold do the work
Stan's Tasmanian noir is slow, cold, and occasionally baffling, and the best scenes are the ones where Emma Booth just stands in the weather.
RHYS TAVITA18.11.2020
TV№ 14
What we watched when everything stopped
Three months into lockdown, the streaming queue has replaced the cinema queue, and the couch has replaced everything else.
RHYS TAVITA14.06.2020
TV№ 15
Six Australian shows worth finding while the cinemas are closed
The cinemas shut, the couch stayed, and the back catalogues on iview and Stan are deeper than you think.
RHYS TAVITA16.04.2020
TV№ 16
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