Coast takes a lead in ‘The End’
EXCITEMENT is building as a bold and provocative Australian drama, written by Gold Coast success story Samantha Strauss and filmed locally, makes its debut on February 2.
Original Foxtel series The End was filmed across iconic Gold Coast locations and explores three generations of a family living with separate but intersecting obsessions and trying to figure out how to die with dignity, live with none and make it all count.
Strauss wrote the series as a short film when she was aged 19 and living with her parents.
Her ABC teen drama Dance Academy won a Logie in 2011 and was nominated for an Emmy Award.
With 10 half-hour shows, the dark comedy series has a starstudded cast led by Dame Harriet Walter, Gold Coast-based actor Noni Hazlehurst, Frances O’Connor and Robyn Nevin.
Speaking from Burleigh Beach, Hazlehurst said she leapt at the chance to be involved in the series, heaping praise on the drama for revealing the complexities of life.
“We all live complex lives and are never just happy or just sad,” she said.
“I also love that it features older people who aren’t dying or have Alzheimer’s – that they are full realised as people in their own right.”
Foxtel executive director of television Brian Walsh said The End, that debuts on February 2 at 8.30pm, would spark a national conversation.
“At times confronting and yes, controversial, it is a series which is incredibly moving and emotional, but above all, entertaining,” he said.