Sizzlin' Summer Streaming 24' - Total Control - Season Three/Series Finale

I'm back from holidays so expect some backed up posts as I catch up with three massive Sizzlin' Summer Streaming 24' finales.

There was some damn fine titles wrap whilst I was living it up in Vietnam, returning for Taylor Swift's Era's tour.

Maybe I went for the best, the pick of the pack first, the series finale of Aussie hit series, Total Control.

The ABC Australian television political drama series which first aired back in October 2019. 

The final season got the ABC out of the gat (in a BIG way!) mid-January. Other than the Newsreader, does the ABC have a bigger drama title than Total Control? The answer is simply, no.

The final episode aired earlier this month. The six episodes were released (free) on ABC iView, week-to-week. We started off when I was in Melbourne with the third season kicking off two years on since the explosive events of the second season. Outsider turned kingmaker, Alex Irving (Deborah Mailman), is now completely at home in the nation's capital. She's at the centre of power, holding the Government on a short leash, but it's taking a toll.

Rob Collins continues to shine throughout this season as Alex's brother. Whilst her son (played by Wesley Patten) is an excellent young talent. The use of (soon to be touring) Missy Higgins music also makes the series blockbuster!

In the series finale, the fate of Alex and Rachel Anderson's (Rachel Griffiths) political careers becomes clear in a final power play which will shape the future of Australia's democracy.

Griffiths shines as an anti-hero also. Her acting just gets better and better!

I loved this series. Every episode, even at times with long breaks between seasons. Yes COVID, yes everything else. With politicians barely working in this country at least they would have had unlimited access to Parliament House/regions around Canberra easily and freely.

Australia today is faced with the choice offered in this series. Two main political parties with little difference between them. Or independents who are held to a much higher regard, must do everything by the book or the media or Liberal or Labor takes them to task. It's a sad state of affairs.

The show at times was more like a mirror being held up to Australia. I loved this show so much, it really is one of the best Aussie shows of the last few decades. Alongside Wentworth, Deadloch and Get Krackin', this show was at all times, a delight.

Well done all involved. EXCELLENT! Maybe the Sizzlin' Summer Streaming 24' series of the first quarter for 2024.