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Ok, Channel 10, please understand: BIG BROTHER has finished. We don't NEED any more reality-TV shows. While THE SECRET LIFE OF US (a 22-part series beginning with this movie-length pilot) is a well-acted, well-directed, well-written series, it's been done so many times before it's just not funny. Well some bits are. As an "almost-twentysomething" myself, I seem to have a choice on Monday nights: I can stay home and watch a group of twentysomethings muddle through their lives on a day-to-day basis and end the week by getting absolutely pissed...OR, I can live my own muddled life on a day-to-day basis and then go out on the town and watch a bunch of twentysomethings get absolutely pissed come week's end. Hmm. While it's definitely better than BIG BROTHER (after five minutes I have an urge to go outside and watch water dripping slowly from a tap, it's more interesting) and the myriad of American soaps it's copying and beating (eg MELROSE PLACE, 90210, etc..., etc...), it's still just another twentysomething melodrama only this time it's set in Sydney. 6/10
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