Offspring Discussion Thread-SPOILERS

[Anonymous]

I was always amazed that such educated people were so bad at birth control.

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Anonymous wrote:I was always amazed that such educated people were so bad at birth control.

said Cherie, hilariously.

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Anonymous wrote: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

Interesting. Makes me want to see Red Dog.

[Anonymous]

The actor who played Mick wrote Beetlejuice the musical. So I guess that was why he left.

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Anonymous wrote:The actor who played Mick wrote Beetlejuice the musical. So I guess that was why he left.

Really? Is that a good musical? Did he write the songs on offspring?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The actor who played Mick wrote Beetlejuice the musical. So I guess that was why he left.

Really? Is that a good musical? Did he write the songs on offspring?

It was nominated for a lot
Of Tony’s (won none but still...). My daughter saw it here prebroadway and lived the songs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

Same! I cried so much at the end of Season 4 and I never do that. I had been watching at least a couple episodes every night and it took me probably 2 weeks of grieving before I could start Season 5. I was really hoping for Nina to wake up from that 8-hour nap and find out that Patrick's death was just a dream.

I just finished the rest of the series this weekend.

[Anonymous]

I watched Offspring years ago and still cannot find another show that comes close to filling the void.

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Anonymous wrote:I watched Offspring years ago and still cannot find another show that comes close to filling the void.

Agreed.

Although I wish they hadn’t killed off Patrick. I know he left the show to pursue other opportunities, but I think they should have ended the series with them together and with Billie & Mick together.

[Anonymous]

Love this show, and like many others on this forum, it has consumed my life and my thoughts, which of course have an Australian accent now even though I live in Texas! I have recommended this show to many friends, describing it as an Australian version of Ally McBeal. I am currently watching Season 6 and it has been somewhat of a disappointment. I agree that the ending to Season 5 was a perfect conclusion for this series, but maybe all of us obsessed fans needed Season 6 & 7 in order to detox ourselves from this amazing show?

[Anonymous]

I didn’t love the Leo/Thomas story lines so I was thrilled to see the Harry development. I was satisfied at the end of the series.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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!

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.

Just finished watching and had to reply to this. I too adored Patrick (brooding, broken, beautiful--so accurate) and even though I knew it was coming (sadly, I stumbled on a spoiler), I was totally wrecked by his death. As someone who has experienced a stillbirth, I was just gutted by the fact that he didn't live long enough to meet Zoe. I wept through the next 4-5 episodes after his death--the writing and Asher Keddie's portrayal of a grieving spouse in those circumstances were both brilliantly done. And I loved watching Billie come into her own by the need to keep Nina afloat.

Although season 6 & 7 were pleasant enough, for me, the season 5 finale was a perfect, perfect ending and the show really should have stopped there. I did like Harry, but I felt like they just kind of popped him in to Nina's life--there was no build up to their relationship at all, just Nina repeatedly calling a guy at work who had asked her out to tell him about her IVF experiences? It was odd. And Mick and Billie splitting for good? No, no, no. However, I did actually like the ridiculous Billie and Dan storyline. They had great chemistry, the actress who plays Billie has tremendous comic timing, and watching her do her scheming was fun. If someone had to replace Mick, Dan was acceptable.

But Patrick....I did not know Matthew Le Nevez even existed until a few weeks ago and now he is my dream man, LOL. His sexy grin....damn.

[Anonymous]

Just finished binge watching. I also sobbed and sobbed about Patrick. Was glad they brought him back as a sort of ghost because, like nina, I wasn’t ready to let him go.
The Leo storyline was weird and disjointed. He was very cute though.
Harry was just so unrealistic. Sure this super hot guy is just going to want to babysit your preschooler all the time and understand all your weird emotional baggage.
I was mad about the Billie/mick breakup. It made no sense after he came back and she broke up with Lawrence. They were back together and they just decided no? They should have just kept him on tour and said they were flying back and forth. He could have been off screen.

Has anyone seen Patrick in any of his other shows? Is he just as hot? Worth watching?

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Anonymous wrote:Just finished binge watching. I also sobbed and sobbed about Patrick. Was glad they brought him back as a sort of ghost because, like nina, I wasn’t ready to let him go.
The Leo storyline was weird and disjointed. He was very cute though.
Harry was just so unrealistic. Sure this super hot guy is just going to want to babysit your preschooler all the time and understand all your weird emotional baggage.
I was mad about the Billie/mick breakup. It made no sense after he came back and she broke up with Lawrence. They were back together and they just decided no? They should have just kept him on tour and said they were flying back and forth. He could have been off screen.

Has anyone seen Patrick in any of his other shows? Is he just as hot? Worth watching?

I enjoyed him in The Widow on Amazon

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have any suggestions to fill this Offspring-sized hole in my life? Finished it on Wednesday and am experiencing a form of mourning. Watched one episode of Sisters and one of Working Moms. And have no desire to watch another.

I agree that the last two seasons were weird and didn’t do the rest of the show justice. In my opinion, the two missteps were breaking up Mick and Billie and the way they handled Darcy’s death and funeral. Didn’t love the Harry actor, mostly because I didn’t think he had chemistry with Nina. Kept hoping that Chris Havel was going to re-appear.