Eugene Kamenka, supervisor of my doctorate at ANU, expert on Marxian thought and a man who would never have thought his name would appear in an article about the twenty-fifth anniversary of Neighbours, once, in his youth, found himself giving a lecture (probably on...
Television
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Alan Saunders
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The Nation Reviewed | Television | March 2010
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Alice Pung
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Television | February 2010 | Society & Culture
The Torah says that we do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. In our everyday relationships, we take ourselves as the yardstick of normality – of rationality, leniency and consideration. The Dhammapadda tells us that conquering others is simple,...
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Alan Saunders
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Arts & Letters | Television | Media | November 2009 | Society & Culture
“Was that like a movie or what?” says one young thug to another after a shoot-up at a petrol station. We’re in the middle of the Melbourne gangland killings, as depicted in the TV show Underbelly, and the dialogue reveals two things: that the writers of ...
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Luke Davies
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June 2008 | Television
Two friends walk along a New York street as the camera tracks backwards with them. We catch them mid-conversation, or perhaps they are just used to throwing random thoughts out to the heavens. "Man," says Jemaine, the nattier dresser and taller of the two, with thick...
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James Bradley
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June 2008 | Television | Noted
It's easy to imagine the pitch for HBO's polygamist drama, Big Love: Everything a normal family faces, times three. It's a neat formula, and it captures much of the pleasure of the series, which centres on the ever-expanding family of the Utah businessman and...
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Rachel Hills
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March 2008 | Television | Noted
Skins hit Australian screens in January with what can only be described as a cacophony of action, as the show's charismatic alpha male, Tony, rounds up his unlikely assortment of friends in a whirlwind of blink-and-you'll-miss-what-they-were-on-about phone...
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Anna Goldsworthy
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Television | February 2007
Many West Wing fans tuned out permanently from the show at the end of series four, after writer-creator Aaron Sorkin's spectacular exit. In retrospect, Sorkin's prolificness reeked of chemical enhancement, and his burnout should not have surprised anyone....
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Guy Rundle
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Television | October 2006
Round the National Gallery, at the top of Trafalgar Square, the recently established garden beds have come up nicely, a discreet fringe of green around the imposing facades. Still, I'm not crazy about them. Bordering a classical building with vegetation is a basic error of...
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Rowanne Couch
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Television | Noted | September 2006
And so we enter September, the season of uncertain weather and jasmine cascading down fences, and the start of nine glorious months of no Big Brother on the box. Call me old-fashioned, but I find the prospect of someone tracking my every move creepy in the extreme. The...
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Kerryn Goldsworthy
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Television | August 2006
“But that’s what this program’s about. It’s about action, and the sheer beauty of it,” said Peter Cundall recently in his introductory segment of Gardening Australia (6.30 pm Saturdays;...
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