Airdate: Laid
Roo McVie discovers all her ex-boyfriends have one thing in common -they're all dead.
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ABC1 premieres its new character comedy Laid, written by Marieke Hardy on the same night as Adam Hills’ new show, Wednesday February 9th.
It will follow at 9:30pm.
The 6 part series features Alison Bell as Roo McVie, something of a lovable loser, who discovers all her ex-boyfriends have one thing in common -they’re all dead.
What happens when a bad one night stand from your distant past dies in horrible circumstances on a beach in Fiji? Are you supposed to go to the funeral, even though the sum total of his sexual knowledge was gleaned from Revenge of the Nerds?
Roo McVie (Alison Bell) is faced with these questions and more when boring Brendan from her Uni days dies tragically on holiday. It’s enough to make any single girl re live some of her murkier sexual moments. Not a pleasant place to visit, to be perfectly honest. But when a second ex leaves this mortal coil, she’s forced to dwell a little longer.
Add a third on to that, and things just start getting weird.
Roo is caught. Is it just her overactive imagination, or should she face facts men she has slept with are dying? What does this mean for future relationships? Can she ever go to bed with her thrilling brand new paramour Charlie (Abe Forsythe)? Or will he join the constant growing list of fatalities if they dare sleep together?
With her best friend EJ’s (Celia Pacquola) help, Roo works to make sense of and solve what’s going on. Together they nut out what seems to be a pattern, but can they work out how to stop all the dying? Will Roo and Charlie ever get the chance to be together without the Grim Reaper as their chaperone?
Laid is a six part series about sex. Sex and death. Death and valour. Life and love. For Roo, it’s hard enough just trying to work out who she is and what it’s all about without being dragged back to her chequered bedroom past to protect her exes and preserve her chance at true love.
Also stars Toby Truslove, Graeme Blundell, Shaun Micallef and Tracy Mann.
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does anyone know who does the music and is it available
A show about low-lifes…which only mindless low-lifes would want to watch. Luckily for all involved it’s on the ABC and its non-ratings won’t affect its longevity.
Does anyone else think Ms.Hardy’s tireless self-promotion is getting a bit stale? Just a bit overexposed? Last week’s magazine cover did me in – committed vegan in her leopard print sexy underwear. Just shut up.
No, Gary. If this show fails it will be because viewers don’t warm to shows with overtly promiscuous characters as part of the premise, just like Marshall Law and Last Man Standing .
Given it’s Marieke Hardy, the common link is that all the exes were Young Liberals.
@ jmgirl
Haven’t written the show off. In fact I am a fan of M.Hardy, it’s just that the premise sounded a little deja vu.
Heavens, folks, give ’em a go. Not even on air yet and you’re already writing it off. I’m not the biggest Marieke Hardy fan m’self, but must admit the few clips I’ve seen are pretty funny.
This plot sounds like it was lifted from Northern Exposure. Remember Maggie O’Connell (Janine Turner) had five boyfriends who died under strange circumstances. I guess Marieke figures her target audience doesn’t watch old TV shows.
The two female roles were very well written in this series so I’m surprised they chose two actresses with not much spice or popularity. Surely an ABC series, in the Wednesday night ‘primetime’ slot could have got better leads. Look at the cast of The Slap.
If this series fails it will be because of this poor casting choice.