At home with Julia

[Naomi]

Did anyone watch this on the ABC last night? It's meant to be a political satire of Julia Gillard and her relationship/home life, and I suppose it could have been good but apart from a couple of funny one liners, it just felt kind of awkward.

[Kekka]

Watched it in horror. What a personal annihilation of her partner!

[jenr]

I didn't see it was it a documentary style or s send up?

[Heather]

Sounds as if I didn't miss anything.

[Naomi]

Completely a send up, Jen. I think political satire is often done quite well in Australia but this was just disappointing. I also wondered about making a show like that about the current PM? Seems a bit off. Also, would they do the same thing about a male? Probably not. Much 'funnier' to mock her partner because he's so emasculated, apparently (And I'm not even a huge fan of hers, I just found it a bit pathetic).

[lucyloo]

Were they trying to make her look more 'real' for more votes maybe?

[jenr]

Bob Katter was in our local paper today saying he wishes they would have asked him to play him he wasnt impressed with the guy who portrayed him

[Naomi]

LOL yes Bob himself is way more entertaining than the actor who portrayed him.

[Alexa]

It seems that the real Julia can laugh at herself, she said she recorded it and will watch it later.

I don't think we can pull it off as well as the American's, Tina Fay for instance is a brilliant Sarah Palin.

I watched it, thought it to be pretty harmless, can't really see what all the fuss is about, she is losing in the opinion polls, so who knows perhaps this will do her some good publicity?

[Naomi]

Maybe it will improve in the next episode. Don't get me wrong, I thought the songs Amanda Bishop did as Julia were really funny, so maybe my expectations were too high LOL.