Preppers

Funny ..shocking for all the right reasons.. every character just seems to say the right/wrong things ...cool journey to go on ..the flash backs are awesome and informative.

Very funny show, though not without its sharp points about racism, colonisation and Aborignality. I loved the make up of the preppers group, the quirks and eccentricities, brought together by a common belief in the end of the world, though no two of them can agree on just how the end of the world will happen. The banter, antics and minor competition between them is the kind of chemistry that you would get with any genuine close knit group of friends, despite their differences. You get the real sense that they have made their family, with the fantastic Jack Charles as leader and grandfather, both the voice of reason and totally eccentric.

On the edge of this family arrives Charlie, still coming to terms with the events that led to her ostracisation from her old life and arrival in the preppers camp. I think it was well done the way they drew out the reveal of those events over the course of the six episodes, the gradual breaking of ties to her old life as she grows into her new accepting family. Information revealed in the last episode puts certain behaviour by the preppers towards Charlie in the first episode in a different light, and the gradual realisation of what she has been putting up with all this time are reflected in the events that affect the camp. Some of the events range from everyday racist micro-aggressions escalating to outright horror movie scenes as Charlie struggles with her own survival instincts and doubts.

A great cast with fantastic chemistry, well paced plot.

Preppers is a fun comedy with some political bite. Set mostly at Eden 2, a camp for doomsday preppers, each episode has a self-contained sitcom style plot as well as progressing a larger series arc, combined with a flashbacks that charts how Charlie, the central character and audience surrogate, wound up amongst the apocalyptic crew (it involves Australia Day going very, very wrong). The plot setups are silly, the jokes come fast and mostly land and while the realism is sometimes pushed into magical territory (there's a musical song and dance with a mythical monster, for instance) the show remains grounded enough that the pathos is still heartfelt. Easy watching. Recommended.

All the good in episode 1 was undone by making this all about Charlie

Over actor.

Maybe it will get back on track?

I'm not sure it will. I wonder if they have multiple writers?

There are many issues around reconciliation that seem too sensitive to ask about. What this show does, most cleverly in the context of a story about the end of everything, raises the issues from an indigenous perspective and addresses them wonderfully. Comedy often amplifies or exaggerates in order to lift our awareness without threat or confrontation. This show does just that.