Sizzlin' Summer Streaming 23' - Bump - Season Four

Bump is back for a fourth season. Now becoming a Boxing Day tradition, the latest 10 episodes of this Sydney based series were a cinch to binge.

Streaming on Stan, the series was originally a NYD hangover cure, launching on 1 January 2021.

The series created by Claudia Karvan and Kelsey Munro, originally was set around an inner city high school, the series centres around Oly, an ambitious and high-achieving teenage girl who has a surprise baby and the complications that ensue for two families.

Since then, a spin-off series set in the same universe, Year Of, landed mid this year, sadly no news on a renewal for this series.

The fourth season of Bump went into production in July, starring OG stars Nathalie Morris, Carlos Sanson Jr, and Claudia Karvan. Fun fact Bump is now one of the longest-running local scripted shows on air outside of serials Home & Away and Neighbours.

This season lands two new characters too, a Mayor in Steph Tisdell and Dylan Alcott in the Inner West Councils office.

Now full-grown adults, Oly (Nathalie Morris) and Santi (Carlos Sanson Jr) we have finally caught up to the actors age. The couple are still working as a team with their challenging seven-year-old Jacinda. 

Vince (Ioane Sa’ula), Talia (Henrietta Amevor) and Ariel (Matilda Ridgway) have parented young Malik too, adding a second child to the Bump mix.

Reema (Safia Arain) has a much more interesting season this season, in a father created love triangle.

Season four deals with a number of social and current issues. Angie played by Aussie legend Claudia Karvan climate change moments feel a little preachy at times. We all understand about climate change now, the more interesting story of the park, Shauna (Steph Tisdell) and the land sale. This is left up in the air meaning a fifth season may happen?

Oly’s works with Shauna, creating loads of drama at work and at home with handsome AF Santi (now in Paper Dolls too!) and very curious Jacinda’s. 

Bump has proven to be a phenomenal hit internationally in addition to domestically, with broadcast deals with the CW Network (US), which sadly axed the second season a few episodes in.

Also streaming on BBC (UK), ProSieben (Germany) and CBC (Canada).

The show has recently received nominations from the 62nd & 63rd Annual TV Week Logie Awards & the 12th AACTA Awards.

This was one hell of an easy watch on Stan. Stan has had a killer year with local releases. Ten Pound Poms, Black Snow, Scrublands, C*A*U*G*H*T and Bump spin off Year Of, all found audiences and critical acclaim.

I have my fingers crossed we will see Bump return on Boxing Day 2024.

Happy summer streaming folks!