In a quiet neighborhood on the outskirts of Brisbane, Australia, the apparent calm is short-lived. It is also true that the family protagonist of the series Boy Comes Universe is still strange: two brothers, one of whom, the eldest, decided years ago not to say a word, a mother, lover of her children, who tries to protect his children overcome drug addict, stepfather of a heroin dealer and alcoholic, separated father. It's what intellectuals call a “dysfunctional family,” and the rest… well, everything.
Since television series have long demonstrated their obvious appeal to globalization, it is worth noting that in the cast of the seven episodes of the first season of Boy Comes Universe that Netflix shows, names appear that are already almost common due to these payments: from a from the unrecognizable Simon Baker (“The Mentalist”) to a Bryan Brown, whose filmography is longer than this column, or an Anthony LaPaglia (“Without a Trace”), although the real protagonists are two unknown young people: Felix Cameron and Lee Tiger Halley.
And since beans are boiled everywhere, as the saying goes, in Brisbane we could not miss an undignified depiction of the mafia, a criminal group that dismembers an individual and blames the result of the dismemberment on the sharks Charity parties that allow them to launder image and money from drug sales. In summary: an interesting series that allows us to check the clarity of Borges when he compiled some of his stories under the title “Universal History of Infamy”, a story that extends to our days and apparently with the same globalizing urge as the Australian series is followed. Television films filmed in the proletarian suburbs of Brisbane.
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