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Happily, if not surprisingly, she nails it, starring as the frequently brusque Helen Tudor-Fisk. A lawyer whoâs relocated to Melbourne following a marriage break-up â her husband left her for an older woman â she fibs her way into a job with an unprepossessing firm of suburban solicitors.
Gruber & Gruber specialises in probate and will cases. Sexy, no? No. This is not a show that has any interest in the potentially glamorous side of the law: no headline-grabbing criminal cases or courtroom grand-standing here.
And, in keeping with the milieu, its quietly grumpy protagonist mostly gets around in shapeless dust-brown pantsuits and clumpy shoes. She canât do small talk, is uncomfortable about hugging and dislikes the word âmoistâ.
Created by Flanagan and Vincent Sheehan and written by Flanagan and her sister Penny Flanagan, the series co-stars Julia Zemiro, Marty Sheargold, Debra Lawrence and Aaron Chen. Helen Tudor-Fisk has returned home to Melbourne after the bust-up of her marriage and being sacked from a more prestigious city firm. Bearing her former Supreme Court Justice father s name and being of a relatable age for the firm s widowed clients, she s hired by Sheargold s Ray Gruber without a reference check. Ray s sister Roz Gruber (Zemiro) has been temporarily suspended from practising law but that doesn t stop her from giving Helen all sorts of career and mentoring advice. Roz s pretensions of grandeur aren t quite on the same wavelength as Helen s snarkier (but never mean) demeanour.