Summer Heights High
PARODY OR NOT SO PARODY.
“My name is Greg Gregson. The kids at school call me Mr.G, which is one of the sort of an abbreviation some of the more popular teachers get.”
The face squirmer of a TV show is a funny/sad office style mockumentary outlining a year in the life of a typical Australian high school. Chris Lilley, who is the creator of the hot mockumentary is a wildly talented writer/ actor that loves making viewers cheeks hurt, while he is busy submerging himself into three characters so incredibly different it is hard to believe their the same one man. But just a warning, you may expect some crude comedy, so those offended by crosses boundaries will definitely get their boundaries crossed watching this mockumentary. “Oh my god, you’re going to Hilford? That’s so cool, you’ll fit in, there are so many Asians.” Ja’mie speaking to an Asian exchange student, going to her school.
Chris Lilley is fantastic as all of the three incredibly unique characters. Funny, realistic, and importantly he avoids being a one sided parody by making the characters very different in their own ways. Watching this twice over it seems to me that all three characters are abit to real for me, the problem is that, im sure a lot of boys and girls through their schooling years have probably come across people who are very similar to Mr G, Jonah and of course Ja’mie.
Jonah is a great and funny character just like the rest. But the problem there is that I’ve actually known boys like him before through my schooling years of both going to a public and private school. His class room behaviours and bullying could’ve been seen and witnessed in any of the schools I went to. Mr G, the drama teacher who’s bitter selfishness is actually so subtle that it turns him into another character that I’ve known in my life. Have I known an arrogant, self-obsessed man, obsessed with his own talents? Yes. Have I met a self-obsessed teenage girl that thinks she’s higher than everyone but calls everything
“My name is Greg Gregson. The kids at school call me Mr.G, which is one of the sort of an abbreviation some of the more popular teachers get.”
The face squirmer of a TV show is a funny/sad office style mockumentary outlining a year in the life of a typical Australian high school. Chris Lilley, who is the creator of the hot mockumentary is a wildly talented writer/ actor that loves making viewers cheeks hurt, while he is busy submerging himself into three characters so incredibly different it is hard to believe their the same one man. But just a warning, you may expect some crude comedy, so those offended by crosses boundaries will definitely get their boundaries crossed watching this mockumentary. “Oh my god, you’re going to Hilford? That’s so cool, you’ll fit in, there are so many Asians.” Ja’mie speaking to an Asian exchange student, going to her school.
Chris Lilley is fantastic as all of the three incredibly unique characters. Funny, realistic, and importantly he avoids being a one sided parody by making the characters very different in their own ways. Watching this twice over it seems to me that all three characters are abit to real for me, the problem is that, im sure a lot of boys and girls through their schooling years have probably come across people who are very similar to Mr G, Jonah and of course Ja’mie.
Jonah is a great and funny character just like the rest. But the problem there is that I’ve actually known boys like him before through my schooling years of both going to a public and private school. His class room behaviours and bullying could’ve been seen and witnessed in any of the schools I went to. Mr G, the drama teacher who’s bitter selfishness is actually so subtle that it turns him into another character that I’ve known in my life. Have I known an arrogant, self-obsessed man, obsessed with his own talents? Yes. Have I met a self-obsessed teenage girl that thinks she’s higher than everyone but calls everything