We’ve been trying to watch the new series,
Operation Buffalo, on ABC but it’s hard going.
There’s something about Australian productions in general which almost
make us cringe. The male characters too
often come across as shallow, uneducated boofheads. Operation Buffalo is about the nuclear
testing at Maralinga so you would have thought there might be the odd
intelligent physicist or engineer knocking about but the producers have decided
to highlight the coarser element of the workforce.
The reviews of the show say that it was
intended to be a comedy-drama. Well,
this biased viewer would like to say that it misses out on both counts: It’s
neither funny nor dramatic so we will probably end up going back to overseas
shows we’ve downloaded. Shame really.
We're certainly watching more TV than we did: a combination of the pandemic forcing us to spend more days at home, and the sense of disquiet that comes from waiting for something important to happen. We know that we'll be moving into a new house but we have to suffer the long wait for the process to take its course.
There's already been one hitch: the buyer of Sherborne Drive has had a hold-up in his application for financing and we've had to allow him an extension. He now has until the 26th to pin that down but we had a call yesterday to let us know that someone from his bank will be here on Monday to check some measurements.
It shouldn't take forever but apparently Coronavirus is now the handy excuse for anyone who wants to slow down the way things ought to happen.
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