#APTCH Season 6

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AUSTRALIAN TV SHOW/FILM RECOMMENDATIONS

SUNSHINE

The story of Sunshine follows the life of Jacob, a young, aspiring South Sudanese-Australian basketball player who is on the cusp of being picked up by US scouts for the US College league. Jacob's team is not up to his standard and so he angles to bring in a better coach. He approaches Eddie, who once played basketball for a US college team to coach his under performing team, The Sunshine Kings. In the midst of aspiring to win at all costs, Jacob finds himself answering to Sunshine-raised lawyer Zara Skelton when he is caught up in a police investigation involving a teenage girl from one of Melbourne's affluent suburbs. 

Trigger Warnings: Racism.

Sunshine is a 4 part mini-series that aired on SBS in 2017. I was completely blown away by this series the first time I watched it. It was so amazing and unlike anything I’d seen before but it wasn’t until my rewatch that I appreciated some of the aspects of the storytelling and the way they went about it. Particularly the way they managed to give so many characters a backstory and use that to develop them and make you care about them so in such a limited time. It also maintains a nice balance and the show never felt like there was to much happening at one time. It is definitely a must watch in my opinion.   

A PLACE TO CALL HOME

A Place To Call Home is a sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia following the lives of nurse Sarah Adams and the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated pastoralist family living in Inverness, New South Wales where love, death and secrets are never far below the surface.

Acclaimed actress Marta Dusseldorp leads the cast as Sarah Adams, a woman with a mysterious past who returns to Australia after 20 years in Europe. Working her passage home aboard an ocean liner, Sarah becomes involved in the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy Australian pastoralist family. She develops an immediate connection with handsome and charming widower George (Brett Climo), as well as his modern young daughter Anna (Abby Earl) and withdrawn daughter-in-law Olivia (Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood). But it is when Sarah unwittingly discovers a potentially scandalous Bligh family secret that her future becomes forever linked with theirs. Only the uncompromising matriarch of the family, Elizabeth (Noni Hazlehurst), and her grandson James (David Berry), know Sarah has uncovered this family skeleton. Elizabeth is intent on keeping it that way - and Sarah at arm's length. Bearing the scars of war and facing the animosity of a determined matriarch, it is time for Sarah to face life again and begin her journey towards healing and hopefully finding A Place to Call Home.

Trigger Warnings: antisemitism, homophobia, suicide, war mentions, rape, domestic violence, conversion therapy, concentration camps, holocaust mentions, addiction (particularly alcoholism), miscarriage, torture mentions, racism, self harm. (there are more but i can’t remember them as i haven’t watched the show in a while but be prepared for everything)

Note: Before starting APTCH, I would high recommend that you be prepared for the kind of content on the show. This is not a series that sugar coats anything, it is incredibly confronting and can be triggering if you are not prepared for what is coming. It is also a series I wouldn’t be more focused on remaining spoiler free as focusing on the kind of content on the show.  

I really don’t have much to add except to say that APTCH is an incredible series. it has a total of 6 seasons with the sixth being the final season and the show is not being cancelled, the creators have just decided to end it there as they believe they have told the story they want to tell which means the show will be getting a proper ending if this is anything to go by. 

THE SECRET DAUGHTER

When fate throws country singer Billie Carter into a chance encounter with rich, dying Sydney hotelier Jack Norton, her life changes forever. Having come to Walperinga in search of his long lost child, Billie pretends to be Jack's secret daughter in order to get her own Dad out of trouble. From a small country town to five-star city living, Billie soon finds that her decision comes with a whole new set of issues. So begins her journey of self-discovery… family and friendship, rich and poor, career and love – can Billie have it all? Only time will tell…

The Secret Daughter only has 2 seasons and it appears the show has been cancelled which is a shame but it does not end with a cliffhanger and actually has a rather lovely ending. Now, while the show can be a little bit cliche and cheesy at times, it is still an enjoyable show that is focused quite heavily on family relationships. It also uses music throughout the show and in season two especially, it uses it to tell that part of the story as opposed to having Billie just randomly singing as it did in season one. They do focus on romance at times but overall, it is a family centric show. 

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Lucky in Season 6

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🏳️‍🌈 happy pride month + aptch

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Carolyn and Jack in the Series Finale

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APTCH Season 6 Episodes 1-5

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Harry x Henry

“I’m yours, if you want me. Totally.”

“I do.”

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APTCH Season 6 Episodes 6-9

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 S6E01 Sarah, George and David

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S6E9 Sarah and George

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S6E8 Henry

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Lucky! 

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Season 6 Carolyn

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S6E9 Sarah