Cassie McCullagh

It's tonally very light.

It's fast moving, cuttingly funny.

But there's also something very dark going on.

And that's what got me thinking.

Yeah, I mean, it comes from a genre that you kind of know.

But I was also wondering whether this might be a riff on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, but Pride and Prejudice in small town Australia, in the Instagram age, you know, in the moral universe of Tinder and...

the bitchiness and backstabbery of My Kitchen Rules or the Klan Kardashian.

You know, like this is a real reimagining of the way sisters interact.

Well, siblings, I suppose.

You know, instead of having Jane, the beautiful one, or Elizabeth, the clever one, or

Mary the plain one or the two silly youngest sisters, Kitty and Lydia.

You've got Claudia who's impulsive and Poppy who's self-centred and Zoe who's pretentious.

Finn, who I said earlier was a psychopath, I stand by that.

There's also the best friend who's the alcoholic Nora, who's either a de facto sister or a bit like the poor Charlotte Lucas, the wallflower who ends up making the pragmatic choice of marrying the awful Mr Collins.

Yeah.

But maybe we saw the well-behaved version of the Bennets in Jane Austen's book.

Maybe she was alluding to some of this darker stuff as well.

I think Rachel, the mother, as we've said, utterly terrible person, she's just like Mrs Bennett.

And the father...

is similar to Mr Bennett in that he's absent and also very flawed, but he's kind of part of the problem.