Sometimes you have to wonder if you're on the same wave-length as everyone else.
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Take the new series Upright (Fox Showcase, Sundays, 8.30pm). It's the new Tim Minchin vehicle that comes as he deals with a Hollywood-induced career low.
He had spent a few years working on his animated musical Larrikins, only to see Dreamworks Animation taken over by Universal, who canned the project.
So he signed up to play Lucky Flynn, the lead in Upright. An anxious type, he's driving an upright piano from the east coast over to Perth.
That plan goes pear-shaped (of course it does. You couldn't have an eight-episode series where he makes it to Perth unscathed), when he crashes into a ute on a desolate a round somewhere outside Mildura.
Behind the wheel of the ute is angry teen, Meg (played by Milly Alcock).
She's a cranky, somewhat nasty piece of work on the surface. Though it seems pretty clear she'll turn out to have a good heart underneath.
it also seems clear it'll be one of those storylines where the two apparently different characters are thrown together and discover just how much they have in common and just how much they need each other.
It's a show that's been getting rave reviews; some say it's a "seriously great comedy", others called it "brilliant", others still rate it "highly recommended" and suggest you're dragging the chain if you haven't already downloaded the whole thing.
And I just don't get it. Having watched the first two episodes I struggled to find a reason to watch any further.
The storyline just felt obvious and tired. On top of overdone "an odd couple form a connect" theme, the pair get caught up in a cliched pub fight and end up having to run out of town.
I saw that and it made me wonder how many plot cliches were coming down the pipe in future episodes.
The plot felt like the writers had watched similar TV shows and movies before writing the script, ticking off the various plot points they needed to add into the series.
Maybe the reviews are driven by sympathy for Minchin, or maybe it's the habit of reviewers going soft on local productions.
Or maybe it's just that I don't get it.