Kitty Flanagan and Julia Zemiro team up for dry legal comedy
Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.
Dismiss
Save
Normal text size
Kitty Flanagan is spot-on when she says her debut ABC sitcom,
Fisk â which she co-wrote with her sister, musician and author Penny Flanagan â is ânot another glamorous legal showâ. Both the location (a dusty probate practice next to a busy Melbourne tram route) and Flanaganâs eponymous protagonist, Helen Tudor-Fisk (a recently divorced, unemployed lawyer who prefers to wear only brown chain-store pantsuits and whose outlook is one of meekly cynical irritation), are the epitome of drab. Indeed, the dictionary definition of âfiskâ â âto make an argument seem wrong or stupid by showing the mistakes in each of its pointsâ â is an apt description for Helenâs new job at Gruber & Gruber. Instead of courtroom theatrics, there is bickering over inheritances