Sunday, May 13, 2018

Homecoming Queens (season 1)

Very delightful in every way. Created by Michelle Law - an enjoyable presence in the Australian arts/cultural landscape - and Chloe Reeson and loosely based on their real-life friendship and serious medical conditions (Michelle: alopecia, Chloe: breast cancer and mastectomy), with Law playing the based-on-herself and Liv Hewson (who was good in the short "Let's See How Fast This Baby Will Go" which, against my expectations at the time, is probably actually the one out of last year's 'best MIFF shorts' that has most lingered) as Chloe.

Seven episodes of about 12 to 15 minuteish each; snappy, funny, real, cringeworthily awkward, and incorporating 'diversity' in just the right way (wholeheartedly, directly, in a way that reflects contemporary Australia, and at the same time with what amounts to a big shrugged 'so what, people are people'). On sbs on demand.