Tag: Deborah Mailman

  • Last Days of the Space Age, Australian drama series

    Last Days of the Space Age, Australian drama series

    Last Days of the Space Age is set in Perth, Australia, in 1979. Some real events that received worldwide attention happened in Perth that year. NASA’s Skylab fell out of orbit and scattered debris all over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia. The Miss Universe pageant was underway in Perth at the time. It was…

  • Total Control, seasons 1 & 2, Australian political drama

    Total Control, seasons 1 & 2, Australian political drama

    Total Control stars Rachel Griffiths and Deborah Mailman in a tense political drama set in Australia. Infighting, back stabbing, and secret maneuvering are a hallmark of political dramas, and this one has it aplenty. Every situation is high stakes and tension drives the plot.

  • Review: The Sapphires

    Review: The Sapphires

    The delightful film The Sapphires is based on a real group of Aboriginal women from Australia who performed soul music in Viet Nam in 1968 for the troops there.