Deciding what is ‘acceptable’ now, and what is not, is fraught – and somehow we need to find a way to discuss it
In 2014, the Guardian reviewed the box set of Chris Lilley’s Summer Heights High, a “mockumentary” set in a public secondary school. It was a “masterclass in character comedy,” the reviewer said, a “towering achievement” that brought “three fabulously memorable school characters to hilarious life”. They were the vain and delusional drama teacher Mr G, the narcissistic private school girl Ja’mie, and hard to handle Jonah.
Now, just six years later, Summer Heights High is cancelled, so egregious that Netflix has removed it and three other shows made by Lilley, not long ago lauded as edgy and possibly brilliant. Also disappeared were We Can Be Heroes, Jonah from Tonga and Angry Boys.
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