Upper Middle Bogan
Class divideWealth, poverty and the gulf between them.This show: 9/10Warm humorAffectionate comedy that genuinely loves its characters.This show: 8/10Working classOrdinary people, ordinary money, real stakes.This show: 7/10Family sagaBonds and fractures across generations of one family.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Annie MaynardPatrick BrammallRobyn MalcolmMichala BanasRhys MitchellMadeleine Maxwell
Written by
Robyn ButlerWayne Hope
Starring
Annie MaynardPatrick BrammallRobyn MalcolmMichala BanasRhys MitchellMadeleine Maxwell
Written by
Robyn ButlerWayne Hope
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Upper Middle Bogan Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.2 | 7.4 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 8.6 | |
| S2 | 8.6 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.8 | |
| S3 | 8.6 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 8.9 |
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About
"Two Australian families collide with real affection"
An Australian comedy about Bess, a doctor raised in a comfortable, cultured family, who discovers as an adult that she was adopted and her birth family is the loud, drag-racing, deeply working-class Wheelers. As she's drawn into their world, the show mines the culture clash between polished suburbia and rowdy 'bogan' Australia for warmth as much as laughs. It's breezy, character-driven and affectionate rather than mean-spirited, carried by a strong ensemble cast and a genuine fondness for both families it's poking fun at.
Watch it for
the ensemble cast's chemistry and the show's refusal to sneer at either family it satirizes.
Maybe skip if
you find broad family sitcoms and culture-clash jokes about class stereotypes tiresome.
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All Seasons
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Series 12013
8.276483h 40m
When Bess Denyar - a doctor with a posh mother, an architect husband and twin thirteen year olds at a private school finds out that she is adopted, she is stunned. But even more so when she meets her birth family. Wayne and Julie Wheeler, parents also to Amber, Kayne and Brianna, head up a drag racing team in the outer suburbs and are thrilled to discover the daughter they thought they had lost.
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Series 22014
8.663583h 32m
Bess Denyar, an upper middle class doctor, having discovered she is adopted and comes from a family of drag racers in the outer suburbs, continues to deal with the adoption bombshell and its consequences. Caught in the middle of two tribes, it's Bess who must keep juggling the fallout - on her adoptive and overbearing mother, Margaret, her loving but slightly spoiled husband, Danny, her twins, Oscar and Edwina, not to mention the Wheelers, her newly found - and delightfully bogan - family.
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Series 32016
8.658483h 44m
Bess Denyar continuing to strive for a happy union between her adoptive upper middle family and her biological bogan family. Two years have passed since Bess, an upper middle class doctor, discovered she was adopted and found her drag racing, biological parents living in the outer suburbs. With her two families, the Brights and the Wheelers, each now facing a brand new set of challenges - moving houses, illness and injuries, relationships ending and beginning - Bess struggles to manage her families living at opposing ends of the freeway, with varying levels of success. Often caught in the middle of two tribes, Bess’ dreams of life as one big happy clan seem almost impossible... but only almost.
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Annie Maynard Bess Denyar
Patrick Brammall Danny Bright
Robyn Malcolm Julie Wheeler
Michala Banas Amber Wheeler
Rhys Mitchell Kayne Wheeler
Madeleine Maxwell Brianna Wheeler
Lara Robinson Edwina Bright
Harrison Feldman Oscar Bright
Dougie Baldwin Shawn Van Winkle
Glenn Robbins Wayne Wheeler
Crew
Robyn Butler
Wayne Hope
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