His limited shtick worked with Summer Heights High, but now it’s in its death throes. Watching his new show, it’s hard not to feel personally insulted
What should Chris Lilley do next? It’s a question worth asking because, if you have watched his new Netflix series, Lunatics, you will have realised that the thing he currently does isn’t very good.
Lilley’s shtick has always been remarkably narrow. He invents a broad character (gay teacher, Tongan teenager, black rapper, Japanese mother), abuses their stereotype for as long as he can and then attempts to salvage everything at the last moment with a bittersweet humanising moment. When he tried this in 2007 with Summer Heights High, it worked; the characters had some level of humanity, the sweetness was unforced and there was a nice geographical gimmick to tie it all together.
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