In lesser-hands, The Secret Life of Us could have easily been embarrassing or tone deaf But for a long time in Australia, the lives of urban 20-somethings were passed over in favour of cop shows, dramas focused on communities in the bush or by the sea, or the lives of suburban families in soaps such as Neighbours. Later, Fleabag and Girls covered similar ground well. There was the BBC drama This Life, about a bunch of London barristers, that came close – it was full of fully realised characters whose messy, complicated lives seemed human in a way that the characters on American dramas were not. Those shows were too glossy, the apartments too nice, the characters too well put together, their problems not really relatable. But the reflection never seemed quite right. Instead, people in their 20s in Australia at the turn of the millennium watched Melrose Place or Friends to see their generation reflected back at them.
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