To many, it is a way to stay alive. The world is a complex place. What is it about false prophets that lures us into believing every word they say? One of my worst fears is being part of a sect and not even knowing it. Is there such a thing as a playbook for becoming a tyrant? Whether this is possible or not, the idea of such a playbook is, in itself, fascinating. Society has a long history of suppressing anything that falls too far away from normality.
Man Facing Southeast is the story of an alien who is nothing but normal. Swallow reminds us that free will is a prison we build for ourselves, but one from which we are able to escape. Alcohol is one of the many things that help me cope with my responsibilities. Druk made me question my relationship with it. A drama series about a family that runs a debt collection business, Tricky Business looks at the lengths people go to get themselves out of trouble. Sign In.
TV Mini Series 1h. Episode guide. See more at IMDbPro. Episodes Browse episodes. Top Top-rated. Photos Top cast Edit. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Warm, funny and moving, Tricky Business looks at the lengths people go to get themselves out of trouble - financial trouble, emotional trouble, growing up trouble, relationship trouble - things we all have to deal with at some time or other.
Add content advisory. User reviews 3 Review. Breakfast was never likely to relate to an audience when the hosts couldn't relate to each other. This messy TV spinoff of Priscilla didn't know whether it was a talent, reality, theatre or travel show and vacillated uncomfortably between serious competition and high-camp nonsense. Its objective, to uncover ''Australia's next triple-threat superstar'' by putting contestants through the rigours of a three-month drag-queen boot camp, was undermined when the prize, a ''chance'' to play a lead in Priscilla on Broadway, fell through after the production closed before the TV show went to air.
Big-name guest judges such as Toni Collette were a draw but not enough to overcome the feeling that no one knew what they were doing or why. I Will Survive. Uunlike 2 Broke Girls, which at least is trying in its own perverse way , Anger Management must be one of the more lazy, cynical efforts to hit our screens in a long time. After Charlie Sheen was sacked by Warner Bros for, well, completely losing his mind, the Fox network couldn't wait to exploit the ensuing publicity.
Enter so-called comedy, a slapped-together star vehicle where the lameness of the gags is absolutely matched by the attitude of the actors. Sheen and his co-stars including Selma Blair - what on earth is she doing there? It's hard to be taken with a show that goes out of its way to extol its own manufactured weirdness, but that's what happened in this over-egged pastiche of surreal happenings in the 'burbs, schlock horror and bogan comedy, which mostly resembled a throwback to those capital ''Q'' quirky Australian comedies that filmgoers avoided in droves.
Queensland is a weird place. OK, we get it already. Viewing figures for The Bolt Report were slightly up in , which suggests either that the partisan commentator is making converts or that those who love to loathe him simply can't resist screaming at their television sets every Sunday morning.
Either way, it was hard to fault his perseverance as the newspaper columnist proved himself the scourge of dead horses everywhere, returning to favoured topics week after week.
But Bolt hasn't managed to find a decent sparring partner, and a fair degree of his initial ''I've got my own TV show! The show has become a forced march. Channel Nine's short-lived weight-loss reality show had a premise as flabby as the contestants it claimed to help.
Eight unknown obese contestants were teamed up with eight overweight but attention-starved celebrities who were then mentored by a trainer, nutritionist, psychologist, doctor and Kate Ceberano. The competition ranked individuals not according to weight loss - as that would be too similar to The Biggest Loser - but a complex metric of body fat percentage, waist measurement and a nebulous ''fitness score''.
We doubt anyone in Australia knows or cares who won. A great premise, a strong cast and a strong locale were all fluffed in this exercise in offensive mediocrity. This is the kind of show television critics cite when they bemoan the lack of quality Australian content.
A missed opportunity. Tricky Business. The difficulty in criticising My Bedazzled Life arises from the feeling that Brynne Edelsten not only had no idea what she was getting herself into - it's that she still doesn't. Dr Geoffrey Edelsten's big-bosomed trophy wife actually came across as a rather sweet person, but that didn't make this disaster of a series any easier to watch.
On the contrary, the combination of her complete lack of self-awareness or self-knowledge with what we all knew was actually going on in her life and her marriage Edelsten was embroiled in a tacky civil case against a lover while the show was screening made most of us want to hide behind the sofa. The only thing Being Lara Bingle had going for it was that The Shire was so dismally and unremittingly bad that this reality show about the sometimes swimsuit model couldn't help but appear slightly less of a failure in comparison.
That said, despite shamelessly manufacturing a life and career for Bingle that lasted as long as the season did, the show was neither comically inventive nor even vaguely revelatory. The wooden performances - add strings and you would have had marionettes on screen - ensured banality triumphed, and all Being Lara Bingle achieved was to thankfully prove that there are limits to our society's aspirational affair with celebrity.
Lara Bingle. There's irreverent. There's rule-breaking. And then there's 2 Broke Girls, a series that has singularly failed to understand the distinction between transgressive and pointlessly offensive.
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