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Mahbub, who speaks very positively of her experience with ABC, says “that exemplifies the gap between who’s running broadcast media and the content that’s already getting made … People say to us, ‘Wow, I haven’t seen this on TV before’ and it’s like, ‘Babe, who’s watching TV?’” That style of comedy has dominated the internet for years now (the show’s name is literally named after a meme), but it feels quite fresh for TV – especially in Australia, a market that doesn’t tend towards youth and/or risk. “ main aim above all to make people laugh.” The show description goes on: “The world is a horrible place where bad things happen to people who don’t deserve it and there’s nothing we can do about it and nothing really matters. It’s actually a perfect representation of the nihilism that defines the new wave of twentysomethings. In true ABC style, the show’s press kit says “the aim of the show is to never present people or phenomena as good or bad, and never give any sort of solution”.īut that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Why Are You Like This is perched right on the edge of those two ideas, never fully redeeming or condemning its “awful” characters and their actions. That’s the real realisation of your 20s.”Īunty Donna’s Mark Bonanno, Naomi Higgins and Humyara Mahbub, who created Why Are You Like This. But then I turned 28 and I was like ‘AND I SUCK’. “When I was 22, I was like ‘everyone sucks’. And while in some cases that is activism, it is also a fine line between letting a news cycle ruin your life and brain. “I guess maybe the difference we have all internalised the idea that we’re meant to be vocally and visibly outraged about all the bad stuff.
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There were just heaps more marital rapes and serial killings.
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It wasn’t better when our parents were kids. I think that if baby boomers grew up in this time, they would be this way. “I think all people are good and all people are awful. “I think all people are awful,” says Higgins. When I was 22, I was like ‘everyone sucks’. That’s funny to me,” Mahbub says), it’s not their intention to make any big statements about the state of the world or Gen Z and millennials. Although they are looking forward to making some people uncomfortable (“I want every conservative white man enraged by the idea that a woman has a period in a cup. That disdain is often clear in the show – particularly through Mia, who has no patience for Penny’s hand-wringing about being woke and the outrage of “losers” online. The characters are ‘awful’, sure, but Naomi Higgins says it’s not because of their age: ‘I think all people are awful.’ Photograph: ABC
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“It was just getting to a point where my entire emotional feedback system was based on words being typed by people I hated in Melbourne. “The rage powered me for several years, but I think I might have shortened my lifespan,” she says. It’s an affliction the creators have shared up until recently when Mahbub quit the “doom machine” that is Twitter. That’s a lot of buzzwords to say they’re Very Online. Together, the trio are faced with sitcom hijinks concerning identity politics, cancel culture and – as the show’s logline reads – “the divisive sociopolitical hellscape that is 2021”. Mia and Penny are joined by housemate Austin (Wil King), a self-obsessed baby drag queen who is hiding his declining mental health behind Swarovski diamonds and depression memes. She wants to be the perfect friend and ally to everyone around her – even those who do not want her friendship or advocacy. Penny, who is straight and white, is racked with anxiety. By the end of the first episode she has extorted an innocent man and wilfully withheld medical care from someone having a health crisis. Mia, who is bisexual and south Asian, is totally self-assured: she is strong, self-serving and often plain cruel.