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[TRENT-DALTON]

A boy in late-1980s Brisbane stands at a back-fence line at dusk, the sky lit pink behind him.

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

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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

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