Summer Streamin' 25 - Optics - Season One

Optics is the new ABC comedy, aimed squarely at a younger, new ABC audience. All six (short) episodes stream now on ABC iview.

It kicks off with, a death at PR firm Fritz & Randell sees the forty-something heir-apparent pushed aside and the reins handed to two younger female employees. But have these women been set up to fail? 

Across the six episodes, the series follows two whip-smart 20-something women who are unexpectedly promoted to run crisis management PR firm Fritz & Randell, after the death of office patriarch Frank Fritz.

As they battle weekly public relations crisis from celebrities, sports stars and corporate titans, and power challenges from veteran PR flack Ian Randell, they slowly come to realise that their firm might have a scandal brewing of its own, and start to wonder: have they been set up to fail.

Looking at topical issues such as airlines, AFL stars behaving badly along with Hollywood stars into weird kinks.

Optics commenced last Wednesday, with all episodes instantly airing on ABC iview https://ab.co/Optics

The new series written by Jenna Owen and Vic Zerbst (also known as comedy duo Freudian Nip) and Charles Firth, couldn’t be more timely. 

After the sudden death of the big boss at crisis management PR firm Fritz & Randell, two young female employees, Greta Goldman (Zerbst) and Nicole Kidman (Owen) are given the top job in a move to shake up the company, or cover an impending PR disaster by a bit of diversity box-ticking.

But their male colleagues, including shunned 40-something company heir Ian Randell (Firth), lurk in the shadows. 

With the reading, right out of recent headlines, the smart script, with very funny, one-liners that contain depressing nuggets of truth. 

The show is fast-paced, intelligent that by the end of episode six leaves you wanting more. It also ends on a bit, OK a big cliffhanger!

Michael Hing also guest stars in the finale, while Pippa from Home & Away also pops up once.

If you like new Australian content, definitely give this one a go!