Strange Aussie TV show "Laid"

[OC Richard]

Well, it doesn't have anything to do with kilts, except that one of the main characters evidently plays bagpipes (when his girlfriend throws him out, one of the things she tosses out into the yard is a set of pipes).

It's the first Australian TV show that my wife and I have got hooked on. We watched both series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laid_(TV_series)

It's strange. Very strange. It all starts out with a theme song that made us squirm in our seats. Then we were confronted with situations and characters that made us squirm in our seats...

Especially Marcus.



It's excellently cast. The characters grow on you, so that no matter how much you want to avert your eyes you stay with them till the quirky end.



In a nutshell, a young professional woman discovers that the men she has slept with have begun dying (from various unrelated causes- having slept with her is apparently the only thing that connects the victims). She and her best friend begin a quest to discover 1) is it a genuine pattern, or merely random coincidence? 2) if it is a pattern how and why is it happening? and 3) if it is a pattern how can it be stopped?

This perhaps doesn't seem like a premise that would lead to laugh-out-loud comedy, but it does! It's very funny, though the humour is often of the dark sort.

It was interesting watching a show from Oz for the first time. For one thing, we noted that it followed the format of British shows, with each year called a "series" and each series having far fewer episodes than a US show's "season". (I worked on a TV show once. We did 50 episodes in a year. British shows might have only 6 or so.)

For another thing, I noticed that after a few minutes nobody had accents. Interesting how quickly our awareness of them went away. Now I know what it's like for an Aussie to watch an American show.

Any Americans out there watched this show? Anyone from anywhere else? What about Australians? It aired on ABC1 and got decent ratings and won Best Comedy Series in Australia (according to the Wiki article).