The End stars Australian actress Brooke Satchwell.
Entertainment by Lexie Cartwright 1st Feb 2021 1:18 PM Foxtel s gritty new original series throws the heavy topic of voluntary dying in your face - and also manages to make you laugh at the same time.
The End, a 10-part series, finally premieres on Fox Showcase on Tuesday after being filmed on the Gold Coast about three years ago. It features a stellar cast, including a hilarious Dame Harriet Walter (
Succession, The Crown) as Edie Henley - a grandmother who feels strongly about her right to die.
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The End will be one of the best local dramas you’ll see this year.
You can thank the exquisite relationship between Dame Harriet Walter and Noni Hazlehurst for plenty of that success. Their friendship as two seniors lifts off the screen and ignites a captivating tale from insightful writer Samantha Strauss (
Dance Academy, The Wrong Girl).
“It says ‘Do not resuscitate! ” Edie tells British paramedics after a botched suicide attempt, but having survived a fall from her first floor window, she is whisked away by family to Queensland.
Daughter Dr. Kate Brennan (Frances O’Connor) and children Persephone (Ingrid Torelli) and Oberon Brennan (Morgan Davies) welcome Edie to a Gold Coast retirement village which frankly, horrifies the poor woman.
At the beginning of
The End, the exceptional new Australian comic-drama about how we confront the difficult realities of both life and death, Edie Henley (Harriet Walter) does her best to take her own life. The sequence has a shocking alacrity and a clockwork mirthfulness – you’re jolted upright, but compelled to laugh at Edie’s exasperation when she realises she’s battered but definitely still breathing. It’s a highwire act of tonality: the series is uncompromising, but its blows are illuminating.
A widower and breast cancer survivor, Edie is shipped off to the Gold Coast and a place in a retirement village that’s a gilded hospice secured by her daughter, Kate Brennan (Frances O’Connor), a doctor who specialises in palliative care. Kate is “ethically bound” to keep her patients alive, even when they want to die, while the indignant Edie is insistent that she’s preparing for another go at suicide. This stand-off soon comes with euthanasia drugs, and startling e
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