Here in Canada, we get quite a few Australian detective/police shows,
on the smaller cable networks, and they're all quite good, indeed, &
much more adult in the way you say, Candice....
Good fun.
On 8-Jun-07, at 11:00 AM, MC Ward wrote:
> We Yanks have been exposed to many Brit series
> (Masterpiece Theatre, Mystery, etc.), but not
> Australian shows, I think. My one glimpse of an
> Australian series airing in Australia while I was
> visiting there was a shocker. It was a detective +
> lawyer series with a trio (2 women and a man), and the
> relations among them were very interesting. The
> shocker, though, was an exchange between the 2 women.
> They're talking about the man when one of them asks
> abruptly, "Do you masturbate when you think of him?"
>
> Later in the show she apologizes to the other woman,
> saying she was way out of line. "What I should have
> asked," she says, "is do you pleasure yourself when
> you think of him."
>
> My Australian hosts merely laughed while I sat there
> with my mouth hanging open. (I wonder if Mark had any
> such experience during his visit.)
>
> Candice
>
>
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