'Last Days of the Space Age is an eight-part dramedy series set in 1979 Western Australia, when Perth was at the centre of the world’s headlines. A power strike threatens to plunge the region into darkness, while the city hosts the iconic Miss Universe pageant and the US space station, Skylab, crashes just beyond the city’s suburbs.
'Against this backdrop of international cultural and political shifts, three families in a tight-knit coastal community find their marriages, friendships, and futures put to the test.'
Source: Media Week (https://www.mediaweek.com.au/disney-announces-new-australian-original-content-launching-in-2022-23/). (Sighted: 26/05/2022.)
'Disney+ will add their latest Australian original to their catalogue today. The brief seems to have been to “amp up the Australianness” – and boy is it a cacophony.'
'Radha Mitchell gives a resonant performance in an otherwise lacklustre series, which presents a sanitised vision of 1979 Perth'
'Radha Mitchell gives a resonant performance in an otherwise lacklustre series, which presents a sanitised vision of 1979 Perth'
'Disney+ will add their latest Australian original to their catalogue today. The brief seems to have been to “amp up the Australianness” – and boy is it a cacophony.'
