4.030 minSeason 3 • Episode 8
LatestBess struggles to tell Margaret & Julie that she is spending Christmas in New York. Wayne & Kayne try to make their Christmas lights display the best in the street this year, and Danny helps Oscar buy a Kris Kringle.
Follow the stories of two families living at opposite ends of the freeway. Bess Denyar is a doctor with a posh mother, Margaret, an architect husband, Danny Bright, and twin 13-year-olds at a private school, Oscar and Edwina. When Bess finds out that she is adopted, she is stunned, but even more so when she meets her birth parents, Wayne and Julie Wheeler. She also discovers that she has three siblings: Amber, Kayne and Brianna. The bogan Wheelers head up a drag racing team in the outer suburbs and are thrilled to discover the daughter they thought they had lost.
Writing
Wayne Hope and Robyn Butler nail class satire without cruelty
Acting
Robyn Malcolm's Julie steals every scene she's in
Costume
Wheeler family wardrobe is aggressively, perfectly wrong
Creators
Wayne Hope, Robyn Butler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robyn Malcolm and Michala Banas previously played mother-daughter on New Zealand's Outrageous Fortune — their reunion here was deliberate casting.
The term 'bogan' carries different weight in Australia than 'redneck' in the US — the show weaponizes class anxiety specific to Australian suburbia, where the freeway literally divides social worlds.
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