Nine’s revival of the ABC TV drama is mild and well-mannered nostalgia, yet misses its original off-kilter warmth
In Australia, the 1990s was an era of muggaccinos, emerging mainstream racism and old-school broadcast TV. Into that fray waded a Sunday night family show on the ABC, co-created by Deb Cox and Andrew Knight.
Seachange was special and strange. A corporate lawyer, Laura Gibson (Sigrid Thornton’s cartoonishly baffled, high-strung creation), leaves Melbourne in meltdown for a low-stress job as the local magistrate in the coastal hamlet of Pearl Bay. Every week, two million viewers tuned in to the Bay’s lovable cast of small-town weirdos, Laura’s slightly hapless children Rupert and Miranda, her new loves (first David Wenham’s Diver Dan, then William McInnes’ Max, a grumpy journo) and the show’s goofy real-estate villain, Bob Jelly (the actor John Howard). And before the night of 10 May 1998 there was nothing like Seachange.
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