Genre:
TV / Comedy
Starring:
Chris Lilley, Debbie Jones, Greg Fairall
Number
of episodes: 12
The
Sims family is throwing a going away party for one of their own, 17 year-old Nathan,
who was left deaf and mentally affected by an accident and is now being sent to
“Deaf School” in Adelaide for two years. Nathan’s twin brother Daniel strikes
up a plan, with the help of his grandmother Ruth, who works in a correctional
facility for teenage boys, to invite three of Nathan’s idols to the party:
S.mouse, an African-American rapper from LA; Tim Okazaki, a young Japanese skateboarding
champion, and Blake Oakfield, an aging surfer dude from South Wales.
The
12 episodes of this short-lived Australian TV show take us through the story of
the Sims family and of the three idols that get invited to the party.
Chris
Lilley, who created and wrote the show, plays multiple roles here: the twin
brothers, their grandmother, the rapper, the mother of the skateboarder and the
surfer dude. He does a good job making each character feel different, but I
must admit I was weirded out a bit about seeing a white man playing a black man
and a Japanese woman, with makeup and all. Don’t know what the reaction was to
that.
The
show itself had its moments, though I feel that, at times, they were working
too hard at edginess. I don’t mind cussing, when done right and for the proper
reasons. Here, it just felt like they were going all out just to shock. This
show gave me some laughs and some moments truly touching, so it’s at least that.
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