I enjoyed listening to the recently-completed 10-part podcast series Liar Liar by the Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes. The show was detailed and informative, with consideration of the many theories out there around the story in addition to the hard facts we have about the… Read More »The Liar Liar Podcast: the Story of Fake Financial Analyst Melissa Caddick
This week I finished listening to Exit Scam, an eight-part true crime podcast series by Treats Media which I really enjoyed. Each episode takes an easily-digestible half hour and tells the recent white collar crime story of Gerald Cotton, the founder of the biggest Bitcoin… Read More »The ‘Exit Scam’ Podcast Miniseries: A Cautionary Tale for the Crypto Generation
I remember mentioning to my friend once how funny and self-indulgent I find it that writers (of romcoms in particular) like to give our main character a job like ours. (Or if not writing/journalism, then something close like marketing). Funnily enough, it hadn’t occurred to… Read More »Why Do Main Characters Always Have the Same Job?
As mentioned in yesterday’s post, podcasts have recently become a bit of an obsession of mine. One of the first ones that got me back into the podcasting world is the Cancelled podcast by Clare and Jessie Stephens of Mamamia, Australia’s only women’s media company.… Read More »Why I’ve Listened to Every Episode of the Cancelled Podcast
I never would have thought that podcasts would at some point become one of the highlights of my day, but here we are. Look, it’s not like this medium is totally new to me. When I was 12 I was a huge fan of the… Read More »Why I’m Convinced That Podcasts are the Best Entertainment Platform
I recently watched the new Our Father documentary on Netflix, which tells the story of a fertility doctor who secretly used his own sperm to impregnate numerous patients. It was an “excellent” watch in that it was successfully and simultaneously horrifying and informative. The morbid… Read More »The “Our Father” Netflix Doc Was Just As Creepy As Promised
When my best friend asked last week if this show was good, I described it as “very average”. Not in the sense that it’s been done before, exactly – it is great to see an all-Asian cast, particularly in the reality TV space. But the… Read More »Is Bling Empire Worth Watching? A Spoiler-Free Review
With the recent release of the U.S. edition of Love of the Spectrum after two successful Australian seasons, I was reminded again of why this show is one of my favourite TV shows of all time. They did an amazing job of keeping this latest… Read More »The Top 3 Reasons to Love “Love on the Spectrum”
We all know that comedy is subjective, but there are certain fundamental skills that all good comedians have developed by necessity. Even so, as with sports, performances can be hit and miss for the best of them. As a major fan of stand-up comedy, I’ve… Read More »The Only 4 Comedians Guaranteed to Make Me Laugh