“The Breakfast Bar” goes where no brekkie show has gone before…
No spoilin' here, but the supporting players get all the best bits in tonight's Wrong Girl episode.
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TEN has sent me a release for tonight’s episode of The Wrong Girl describing it as “a highly emotional and dramatic episode.”
While I wouldn’t go quite that far, it is the strongest of the four episodes I’ve seen thus far.
A sub-plot involving “The Breakfast Bar” co-host Erica Jones (Madeleine West) and co-host Eric Albrectson (Craig McLachlan) goes where no real life breakfast TV show has gone before and it’s a test for Lily (Jessica Marais) stepping in as Supervising Producer.
I’ll refrain from as much detail as the publicity release, as I reckon it’s too much of a spoiler….
But there was also particularly good work from Kerry Armstrong and Hugo Johnstone-Burt tonight, showing off that The Wrong Girl’s ensemble is reason to look beyond the stars who necessarily attract the lion’s share of publicity for a show’s launch.
You can check it out tonight at 8:30pm on TEN.
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Ah… the penny dropped on where I’ve seen the wheelchair bound brother before. It’s Hugo Johnstone-Burt, thank you. Looking much different from his roles in Miss Fisher and the first season of Love Child.
He was also on home and away.
Yes, I do remember him in H&A too, I think I was still watching it at that time.
The ‘Breakfast Bar’ stuff is my favourite part of the show.
The Daily Mail clearly didn’t share your concern for spoilers. They just tweeted a headline that gives the major plot point away.
I guess in their defence TEN didn’t consider it a spoiler either as it was all through their release, including with actor quotes. As I’d watched the episode and it was late in the plot I felt it was too much. TVT is mindful of the viewer experience!
I’ve felt for a while now too much is being given away in spoilers of next episode for some australian dramas. The worst offender I’ve seen so far was love child, hyde and seek hasn’t been much better and I actually thought last weeks wrong girl promo for this weeks episode gave away too much. If your basing a show on the tension between the too leads in this case jack and lily then why show them kissing for the first time in a promo. The audience aren’t idiots. They know the tension will lead to something eventually but seeing it the first time in a promo is just wrong. There’s a way to tease a future episode without giving away too much information and its just not happening.
I’ve mentioned before I generally consider “first act” of an episode is open slather. It is set up, same as the back of a DVD cover. Plot movements in the latter half of an episode are best to steer away from, which is what happens in tonight’s episode. Good episode tho.