I had no idea what I was getting into when I started this series, but I was hooked in the very first episode. It is a slightly absurdist take on life of a divorced woman returning to a career after her marriage to a dillweed has collapsed. She finds herself employed/employable at a bottom-of-the-rung legal firm in Melbourne that handles estates, wills, and the like. Her father is a retired judge who now has male live-in partner, her rival/peer in the office is a martinet about the office kitchen, the owner does whatever he can to avoid actually working for clients, and the front desk guy does just enough to allow him to pursue his first love, which is streaming his gaming activity with Twitch.
The main character is not perfect, not by a long shot, but somehow her general goodness/usefulness comes through as she deals with the odd lots from the community who need help with their estates or with claiming one.
This series relies upon understated comedy and comedic scenes, and events early on in the series will have a payoff sometime by the second season.
I've been working full-time for almost 50 years now, and no matter how absurd a movie or TV show is about office work, I never doubt that what I see could happen because I see offices just like this one whether it's for a legal firm trying to get by on the leavings from small wills or a large megacorp trying to leapfrog its competitors with inferior, unwanted products.
I laugh not only at what I see here, but what I see here as a reflection of life in Western capitalism.
Kitty Flanagan is unknown in America, and that's too bad, because she is brilliant. Witty, sly, reserved, and able to point out that much of what we see in life as normal is actually quite, quite funny.
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