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My Brilliant Career: inside Netflix’s horny, ‘bonkers’ take on an Australian classic the world is about to love
Starring Philippa Northeast and an extremely buff Christopher Chung, Miles Franklinâs 1901 novel has been adapted into a spirited series âunashamedly intended for womenâ
Within the first 10 minutes of My Brilliant Career, Netflixâs new adaptation of the classic Australian novel by Miles Franklin, thereâs smutty performance poetry and a Divinyls needle drop that suggests itâs not going to be your standard turn-of-the-century period drama. By the end of the first episode â in which our teen heroine, Sybylla Melvin, pops a squat for a bush wee and flashes her knickers at a drawing room full of toffs while dancing to a Rod Stewart cover â you sense that anything could happen. And yet somehow, the alfresco fingerbang later in the series still surprises.
You haven’t seen this Australian classic quite like this before
Just a month ago, Netflix’s adaptation of Little House on the Prairie flamed the culture wars with its more inclusive take on the beloved semi-autobiographical stories by Laura Ingalls Wilder about life as a US pioneer in the 1800s.
The streamer’s take on Australian classic My Brilliant Career also introduces fresh perspectives and storylines, including Indigenous, Chinese-Australian and queer characters who certainly weren’t present in Miles Franklin’s landmark 1901 novel, or the 1979 film by Gillian Armstrong starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill. The 2024 stage musical’s diverse cast added room for interpretation, though this is far more explicit.
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It’s always a tricky proposition, bringing a beloved novel to the small screen. There will always be viewers who take umbrage with the way their favourite book has been adapted. The characters may not look the way they should, key elements may have been left out: the hero or heroine might appear too modern, have too much hair; be not quite pretty enough — there’s always something.
With all this in mind, it will be interesting to see what audiences make of this adaptation of Miles Franklin’s beloved novel of the same name from 1901.
The text has long been studied in classrooms, but most will probably remember it from Gillian Armstrong’s much-loved 1979 film, which starred Judy Davis and a very smouldering Sam Neill.
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