In the ’70s-set Hulu miniseries, a Skylab crash, Miss Universe pageant, and labor strike hit the Australian city.
before bursting into tears because everything is, in fact, changing in 1979 Perth, Australia. Beyond the conventional domestic stresses of her two teenage daughters being a lot to handle, her husband Tony has been on strike for months, leaving the family on the brink of financial ruin and pushing her to become more of a career woman than she wanted to be.
The police are worse than useless, quick to shrug off an assault as unsolvable while profiling—and, indeed, harassing—Aboriginals. But some of the nastiest stuff comes from the constant microaggressions served up by Rosemary Giliberto and her squad of busybody community leaders.
There are probably too many plots being juggled here, which creates some jarring tonal shifts as the writers try to do a fairly comprehensive study of the issues of the era. Bob might be conning the Buis by offering them hope of reuniting with their son who fled Vietnam. There’s also a quick aside about Tony being involved in a military unit exposed to nuclear radiation by the British, likely a reference to Operation Mosaic.
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