Published: September 16, 2019
Comedian Sarah Kendall’s new TV series has beaches and sunshine, but her version of 1980s New South Wales is no Summer Bay
Growing up in England, most of my knowledge about Australia was derived from Home and Away. Rushing back from school, I could escape the cold, dreary winter and dream instead of beaches and sunshine and sea-salt hair. And Noah and Hayley.
Now a new six-part comedy, Frayed, has come along to dispel those fantasies. The series, a co-commission between Australia’s ABC TV and Sky, follows the tribulations of a wealthy London housewife, Sammy Cooper, who, after the sudden death of her husband, is forced to return to her home town of Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1989.
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