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Gosh it s good to have a locally produced series to get excited about. Not just because 2020 was a lacklustre year for local drama and comedy. Not just because the already fragile local industry is reeling from the COVID crisis and could use some applause. And not just because Stan s new year releases have tended to be a lot less inspiring.
The excitement also comes because the 10-part
Bump is a joy and it affirms one of the country’s most impressive screen partnerships in writer-producer John Edwards and actor-writer-producer Claudia Karvan. Although they ve worked independently of each other extensively, their projects together represent some of the finest contributions to Australian TV drama in the past 20 years: