{"id":1330,"date":"2011-02-17T19:29:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T06:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2011-02-17T19:29:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T06:29:05","slug":"homegrown-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/homegrown-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Homegrown Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sitting down to watch homegrown drama is fraught with the negative reinforcement of many earlier disappointments and – let’s be honest – more than a smidgen still of cultural cringe, all of this tempered by the hope that a) the show’s maybe even half<\/i> as good as our favourite<\/a>, and b) we can enjoy it at some (any) level rather than endured as some kind of national duty.<\/p>\n

I’ve huzzahed<\/a> those that we’ve enjoyed. And I haven’t named names of those we haven’t – hey, I’d like to keep my options open on working in this town, thank you very much.<\/p>\n

There were some New Zild titles I looked forward to last year:<\/p>\n

— The uninspiringly titled This is Not My Life<\/a> sits unwatched on the harddrive – pushed aside I suspect by the international film fest, getting The Goddess hooked on The Wire<\/a>, and feeding another addiction<\/a>*<\/super>.<\/p>\n

— Go Girls<\/a>‘ second season came and went unwatched – but again: thank goodness for voluminous harddrives.<\/p>\n

— Yes, it was Outrageous Fortune<\/a>‘s final season, but we’d tried the series way back when and we hadn’t clicked. (Snippets caught in the intervening five years whilst channel-surfing have provided intriguing glimpses of the chances they’ve taken – chances I’d like to watch; luckily the local<\/a> have the full run.)<\/p>\n

— I have<\/i> seen something homegrown: I’ve finally<\/strike> just started watching Rural Drift<\/a> – it jumps the abovementioned queue ’cause there’s personal connections there.<\/p>\n

Sooo… what’s there to look forward to this year?<\/p>\n

There’s The Almighty Johnsons<\/a> but I’m struck by the similarity of it’s promotional photo<\/a> with another production’s pic I bitched about<\/a>, and I’m not talking about the trees.<\/p>\n

… Um.<\/p>\n

There was a point to this post.<\/p>\n

Can’t for the life of me remember it now.<\/p>\n

*<\/super> I’m a bit gutted it hasn’t been renewed for another season. Where’s the love, hm?<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sitting down to watch homegrown drama is fraught with the negative reinforcement of many earlier disappointments and – let’s be honest – more than a smidgen still of cultural cringe, all of this tempered by the hope that a) the show’s maybe even half as good as our favourite, and b) we can enjoy it … <\/p>\n

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