Based on the hit memoir of the same name, The Family Law is a drama-comedy series set on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast over one hot summer. Our guide: 14-year-old Benjamin Law – slightly self-obsessed, clarinet-playing middle child – with aspirations to be a TV star.
Over six episodes, we follow Benjamin as he strives for mainstream stardom whilst trying to stop his parents, Jenny and Danny, from splitting up, usually with disastrous results. As the summer progresses tension between family members build and occasions that should be cause for celebration become milestones of horror they’ll never forget.
An end-of-year school talent quest ends in an attack by avian life; Christmas sees the arrival of an unwelcome visitor who is not Santa; an outing to the zoo ends in possible kidnap; an eighteenth birthday becomes an exercise in humiliation and we haven’t even gotten to the wedding anniversary!
The screenwriter Benjamin Law describes the series as "a comedy about divorce" that gathers the threads of one part of his sprawling memoir, which covers the author's coming out as a gay Chinese-Australian teen, the deportation of relatives from Australia and the death of his grandmother in a Hong Kong nursing home.
Over six episodes, we follow Benjamin as he strives for mainstream stardom whilst trying to stop his parents, Jenny and Danny, from splitting up, usually with disastrous results. As the summer progresses tension between family members build and occasions that should be cause for celebration become milestones of horror they’ll never forget.
An end-of-year school talent quest ends in an attack by avian life; Christmas sees the arrival of an unwelcome visitor who is not Santa; an outing to the zoo ends in possible kidnap; an eighteenth birthday becomes an exercise in humiliation and we haven’t even gotten to the wedding anniversary!
The screenwriter Benjamin Law describes the series as "a comedy about divorce" that gathers the threads of one part of his sprawling memoir, which covers the author's coming out as a gay Chinese-Australian teen, the deportation of relatives from Australia and the death of his grandmother in a Hong Kong nursing home.
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