TL;DR – This is a show that wildly oscillates from being deeply offensive to just plain dull
Score – 1 out of 5 stars
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Review –
Before we get into this review, let me take you back 14 years ago to 2005, this
was when We Can Be Heroes first aired
down here in Australia. It was a revolutionary comedy for many, as it satirised
people that you thought you all knew. Also having one actor play multiple different
parts was a novel concept … at the time. Chris Lilley won multiple awards for
the show and it put him in the limelight which he followed up with the equally successful
Summer Heights High two years later. Why am I opening with this, well I
wanted to give it a bit of history for non-Australian readers, and I wanted to
give a bit of context before we fall into the rubbish that is this series.
So to set the scene, Lunatics is based around the lives of several characters
(all played by Lilley). There is Jana a lesbian pet psychic based in South
Africa, Gavin a brat that somehow going to be an Earl, Joyce a former adult
movie star, Keith a long time retail worker that is opening his own store,
Becky a tall twin starting her first day at an American college, and Quentin a
real-estate agent from the Gold Coast. The series explores their lives as they
all move into their next stages of life. Now from here, we will be looking at the season as
a whole, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead.