One achievement of the show is to meld those flourishes with clear-eyed professionalism. With personal secrets from their past liberally lodged in the narrative, their connection is a recognition of a fellow soul. I’m the audience,” she tells him, offering advice after he rescues her from self-harm. “You’ve got to impart the information to me. As Helen’s producer, Dale finds a fellow soul. He wants to report live and even get behind the studio news desk, but his initial attempts are close to farcical (with a strong Broadcast News vibe). Rookie report Dale Jennings (Sam Reid) is a mess of ambition and unfulfilled desire. History isn’t being written, it’s getting laid out in shorthand. The rush of calamitous events is a thrilling backdrop – the newsroom staff literally drop everything and rush to their desks – but what looms as momentous is actually perceived as a handful of crucial facts that need to be quickly conveyed. The creator of the six-part series, Michael Lucas, whose previous shows include Party Tricks and Five Bedrooms, has lodged a psychological study in the midst of historic storytelling. Trauma is buried deep inside for the leads of The Newsreader, played by Anna Torv and Sam Reid. When the floor manager counts in the broadcast, Helen turns herself on. “The camera goes on her – bloody magic,” he sighs, making explicit how the leading characters don’t make sense, even to themselves, unless they’re on air. Watching the News at Six broadcast at the fictional commercial network, chief-of-staff Dennis (Chum Ehelepola) marvels at the on-air gravitas of co-anchor Helen Norville (Anna Torv), whose erratic emotional equilibrium is punctuated by slammed doors and tears. The protagonists aren’t sturdy, they’re incomplete, and the show’s inversion of the stoic period drama is a high-wire act. As momentous stories break in the first few months of 1986 – the Challenger disaster, Lindy Chamberlain’s release from jail, and the Russell Street bombing, to name a few – the people covering them in a Melbourne television newsroom don’t just react to the events, they’re given purpose and definition. Don't miss out.History feels like a dream in The Newsreader, the ABC’s exceptional new Australian drama series. It's strong, well acted with it's take note performances, and very very sexy. A couple are clichéd, and worn, but this show really has you.
The story lines are different, some of them shockingly tragic, like the beautiful Novakovic's character, who dons a blonde wig at the establishment. The characters are real, they have flaws, some carrying a lot of baggage, in particular, Amy. The actresses, actors, really turn in good performances, notably best, Morassi, as well as Glen, who's very strong. There are so many memorable bits in Satisfaction, a lot of them sexual, and this show does grow on you. I really liked the brother/sister relationship here. His sister, played by Madeline West who takes over the establishment in the series, walks in and is reassured by Clare who says "Money changed hands". Too working in 232, comes male stud, Damien (Dustin Clare) Get this, Keehan's character pays Clare off hours, for some in out, in out. Satisfaction is almost as raunchy and bold as Secret Diary Of a Call Girl, with it's hot sex scenes, some bloody memorable. One client of Peta Sergents, the lesbian beauty, gets together with her on the outside for some role playing, him as a kid, Sergent as the mother, I couldn't believe, but it was bloody funny. We see too, the forms in which their clients come, of course, getting the odd dangerous one. Kestie Morassi as the young lass, running the establishment, is great, her strong independent character, masking a lot of insecurities, while Diana Glen, too, is hot, as that grounded mother. The show follows the lives of the women outside of the establishment, one with a lesbian lover, another grounded, who hasn't told her daughter what she does yet.
The show centers around a high class brothel, known as 232, and it's women workers, some of them real hotties, though sexually I really loved Camille Keehan the best, as the more vulnerable, younger, sexier, and less experienced Amy. Satisfaction is one of the better Aussie t.v shows that rises among many others.