We’ve been overwhelmed by cracking television in 2022. Here are our top picks to add to your must-watch list for the winter months.
follows a handful of just-released inmates from NSW jails who spend their first 100 days out with a stranger and their family in a bid to have secure housing and a clean break from some of the circumstances that make re-offending likely. The show doesn’t have the answers, but the question it asks of the incarceration system and the people involved are genuine and necessary, and the intimacy of the storytelling makes worrying statistics into real people. It’s a revelation.
and deeply observant, with Joyce realising her new colleagues know more about women’s issues and sexual freedom than she does.four-part local documentary about a group of kelpie pups dispatched to trainers and their farms across Australia to learn the cattle dog trade. Full of likeable personalities on either four or two legs, the show was a primer on canine instinct and the modern needs of a very traditional job. A shout-out to the cinematography, which put you amidst cattle hooves and stockyards to great effect.