Day 192: July 27

From the newsdesk...

Please Like Me 

(This is not a post of me saying that you guys should like me, it's actually a post about Josh Thomas' TV show Please Like Me & Australian television in general). 

If I had a hat on right now, I'd tip it. (It'd preferably be a bowler hat or a top hat). 

I'd tip my theoretical hat to John and Josh Internationl, the company that produced this show. (It is named after Josh Thomas and his pet poodle mixture of some sort, John). 

Please Like Me is an Australian television comedy drama starring Josh Thomas (as himself), Caitlan Stasey (as Claire), John the dog (as himself) and Tom Ward (as Tom), his best friend. 

It's a funny, heartfelt, charming TV show which takes just the right amount of twists and turns. Even the sad moments turn out to be something to be laughed at. 

Please Like Me centres around Josh (as himself) and the days leading up to his 21st birthday. There are laughs, hook-ups, break-ups, boyfriends, girl-friends, deaths, (maybe) new lives, lots of Panadol, online dating, a fancy car and a $19 sundae. 

Josh (and Caitlan Stasey) for that matter have this weird Australian-British accent. They both have this weird intonation where they sound like they've been living in Britan and picked up on how they say some of the words. But pretty sure they're both born and bred Australian. 

Straya. 

Just watch it. We know all I'm pretty shitty at reviewing stuff but I really recommend this. If you're having a shit day or you just want some down time or a few laughs, watch Please Like Me. There's 6 episodes and they're about 28 minutes each, so really if you watch them and then hate it, it's not that much of a waste; approximately only 3 hours of your life.  

(GUYS IT'S BEING RENEWED FOR ANOTHER SEASON)!! 

Australian television/movies are actually really great. I'm always really cynical about it - "aw, they can't act" or "damn, hate the accents", but it seems like I'm just saying it for the sake of saying it. Of course there are the bad movies/tv shows *cough* Yolngu Boy *cough*, but there are plenty of bad American and British TV shows and movies too. 

There's WINNERS AND LOSERS (which I swear by) and NEIGHBOURS and HOME AND AWAY or PACKED TO THE RAFTERS if that's your thing. Movie choices are endless: SHINE, TIM, THE SAPPHIRES, AUSTRALIA, CROCODILE DUNDEE, RED DOG, ANIMAL KINGDOM, BRAN NUE DAE, MURIEL'S WEDDING (no.), MARY AND MAX (A++ would recommend), JINDABYNE; I could go on for forever. 

So whenever you're bored or just feel like chilling, grab a stubbie, a lamination (or a piece of pavlova if you're that way inclined), chuck a shrimp on the barbie (which I've never seen anyone do and don't they call them prawns here?) and pick yourself an Australian movie to watch. 

((My dog is snoring))