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The End Reopens the Kevorkian Debate Through a Rich Family Drama
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Euthanasia pops up in many films and TV series, but in
The End the idea is the very core of the10-part series.
The series opens with recently widowed Edie (Dame Harriet Walter,
The Crown, Killing Eve) trying to kill herself, when she’s interrupted by a fire starting in her living room. Determined, she hurls herself out of a window, but is carted off in an ambulance. This prompts her daughter Kate (Frances O’Connor), who escaped her suffocating British upbringing and moved to the Gold Coast years earlier, to ship Edie to Australia and re-house her in a gaudy, upmarket retirement village, replete with seniors in white slacks playing cards and taking aqua-fit classes; everything the dour Edie hates.
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.