Offspring Discussion Thread-SPOILERS
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Anonymous
When the actor doesn’t re-up his contract, his character needs an exit. That one was plausible. I love the show and season 2-4 are my favorite. I loved Harry well enough by the end. |
Anonymous
| Never cried so much as I do watching this series. Beautiful, funny, unique show. I could watch this family forever. |
Anonymous
Whether the chemistry was good or bad between Nina and Harry is a personal perspective for each person. That said, Nina was changing and becoming a more mature or different adult and her needs and desires were changing due to being a single Mother and wanting to progress in her career. Harry had a different life perspective/experience and communication style and he is part of the transition that Nina was going through. She needed to get out of her head a bit more and engaged as a Mother, family member, partner and professional. Harry's character was the conduit for that to happen and for us to see it happen. |
Anonymous
| I liked the show a lot but the quality really went down the last few seasons. |
Anonymous
It was slated to end at season 5. So the remaining seasons weren’t the best. Harry seemed like a mash up of patrick’s aloofness and leo’s mushiness. |
Anonymous
| I watched the series on US Netflix and this might be different if watched originally locally in Australia. At the end of Season 06 Episode 10, there was a little scene at the end of the episode after the credits started to roll (A stinger if you will) where Geraldine asks, if everyone if they are ok with the threesome that just happened between her, Marjorie and Renato. This was the only episode that it happens in that I have found - Did anyone else notice this? In the original broadcasting of the series were there little scenes before the credit or interrupting the credits normal? Its not uncommon for Netflix to take something out or show a west coast vs east coast showing of a show. This happened with The West Wing for example. Some things get cut to allow for more commercial time for syndicated shows but that might just be a US thing. |
Anonymous
+1. I loved the show, but I don't think it was as good once they started losing/have limited appearances of some of the main characters. I thought the way they handled the Billie and Mick relationship when the actor left the show was awkward. |
Anonymous
It was in the versions on Hulu and amazon prime. |
Anonymous
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Bumping up this old thread because I’m currently binge-watching Offspring, and just finished season 4.
**Spoilers below** Patrick’s death totally wrecked me - I was crying buckets (and I’m not a big cryer)! Maybe because I’ve been watching the show hour after hour and I don’t know what’s the show and what’s my real life anymore, ha. But I’ve been so sucked in, and just reacted so strongly to his death. The acting is so good, and I have an absolute crush on the actress who plays Nina (I’m a straight female). Anyone else react this way? And then Billie and Mock splitting up, after four seasons of them loving each other like crazy...so depressing. I honestly don’t know if I have it in me to keep watching. Are the other seasons — 5,6 and 7 — worth it? |
Anonymous
| ^^ Mick, not Mock |
Anonymous
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I'm the OP of this thread! Season 5 had a spectacular and perfect ending in my opinion.
Seasons 6&7 are a disappointment in comparison but still fun. |
Anonymous
You can take a little break after season 4. But then you’ll just want to know what this family is up to. I’d say seasons 5, 6, and 7 are not nearly as good as seasons 2-4 (I’m not a Chris Havel fan) but still better than just about anything else you could watch. Different for pp, I did not love season 5. I enjoyed Nina’s story and new cast added in season 6&7. I was fully satisfied with the season 7 ending. No worries, you can watch the whole 1-7 again later — it holds up well. |
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I loved this show. I think it was after "your sister's a six" that I decided it was worth sticking with. I was so surprised that they didn't get Nina back together with Chris Havel in a later season. Patrick never seemed like the right choice, but he was almost getting there. I suppose that's why it was extra tragic. I liked his sister a lot.
Billie was so selfish do much of the show, that while I didn't think she and Mick should break up, it showed how much she had grown as a person to set Nick free so he has a chance to have a kid. I think her affair was subconsciously paving the way for that. What a force of nature! It would be both marvelous and suffocating to have such a large and present family of big personalities. I dated someone in a family like that and when we broke up, I was probably more sad about losing his family than losing him. Long live the proudmans! |
Anonymous
I loved this show and loved it even more because I loved the brooding, broken, beautiful Patrick. A season digging into his story would have been awesome. It is frustrating with long-running shows that you can tell the stories that get written because of actor contracts and changes. And those aren't the way we see or "know" how some of these these people would behave. But it is a show after all. And wonderful, flaws and all. |
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Offspring faring well in"best of a decade" Australian tv awards, including a mention of Patrick's death among best tv moments.
https://tvtonight.com.au/2020/12/offspring-leads-aacta-audience-choice-awards.html |