"Middle Lower Bogans": Wacko Aussie Mom in one story, bickering race car guys in another. With bonus Aussie dicks

  


Netflix thinks I'll "love" Upper Middle Bogan or Rogan, hard to tell from the font.  Why would would I love, or even click on, something with an icon featuring a closeup of a lady's breasts, with the title actually written on one?    Sounds like a hetero-sleaze fest with gyrating ladies on poles.  

Ok, let's take a look, but at the first naked lady, I'm leaving. 

Story #1: Lady is driving through an Australian city, applying makeup and nail polish.  She stops at an elegant suburban house and brings coffee to Hubbie -- Patrick Brammell, top photo -- who is still asleep. Fully clothed.  Wait - why would you put on makeup and nail polish on the way home?  Are you pretending to go somewhere?

He smooches her all over, but she stops to ask if she looks yellow today, and if she might have bony metastasis. Is something wrong?  Do the boobs on the icon signify breast cancer, not hetero-horniness?  Or is she a hypochondriac? He doesn't care; he still wants sex.

Later, they bring lots of birthday presents to the rooms of Oscar and Edwina.  The kids argue over whose room they will celebrate their birthdays in.  Parents note that they dropped Oscar on his head a lot, and besides, he has an erection, so it will be his room.  Edwina is outraged. Something creepy is going on here.  Do the kids have an immune system disease, or is Mom delusional, keeping them locked in their rooms?


They compromise with the kitchen, where the kids interact normally.  So all of that creepiness was just to make viewers uncomfortable?  Oscar continues to hide his erection, which makes the parents proud.  They're proud of an erection?   

Left: Dad's bulge

Grandma appears, not phased by Oscar's erection but offended by Dad in underwear -- although she sneaks a peek.  She criticizes everyone else, and gives Oscar a maths tutor for his present.  This enrages Mom -- the monster made her childhood a living hell, and "look how I turned out!  I won't let that happen to Oscar!"

Dad counters that he likes the way she turned out, especially her breasts, which he fondles.  Can't you think of anything else, jerk?  Seriously, though: "I know you're a wacko, but Oscar will be fine.  Besides he's seriously stupid."   He makes an offense "I'm stupid" face.  Good God, call Child Protective Services.  Dad is seriously abusive.


Mom goes back to the kitchen to prove that Oscar's not stupid by asking him to add 13 and 13.  The answer he gives: 27?

Whoops, Grandma has collapsed, crashing through a glass table.






Story 2: In the emergency room.  You don't get separate cubicles; everyone is in one big room.  The guy in the bed next to Grandma is jerking his arms up and down. 

Mom goes to the lab and checks on Grandma's bloodwork.  Wait -- this seriously mentally ill hypochondriac is a doctor?  How does she examine anyone without freaking out and thinking that she has what they have?


Mom argues with the technician, Sam, about Grandma's diagnosis: "You got the bloodwork wrong. My Mom can't  have Type A, because Dad was Type O and I'm Type B."

"Nope, I drew the blood myself.  She's Type A."

Sam is played by model Kane Felsinger, who doesn't show his chest on screen.

Mom jabs herself to prove that she's Type B.  How is that possible?

She rushes out to confront Grandma: "You can't be my mother. I'm adopted."  After a lot of mishegas, Gradma admits to it.  This is a completely different story from the psycho-parents imprisoning their kids in Scene 1.

At home, Mom breaks the news to the family.  "So she's not our Grandma, she's sort of a friend of the family?"  "No, we'd never want her as a friend."

 Later, in bed, Dad wants to feel her breasts, as usual, but Mom refuses: "What part of you thinks I want to have sex right now?"  His penis, obviously.  "I wonder what my birth parents are like?"  Dad suggests that her mother must have incredibly gorgeous breasts.

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Gemstones Episode 1.5: Baby Billy and Eli compete for Aimee-Leigh. Plus water sports and donkey dicks




Previous: Episode 1.4, Continued: Dot drives Kelvin crazy, Keefe refuses a bj, and Gideon and Scotty date.  With a Daedalus dick bonus

Title: "Interlude."  The interludes, set halfway through each season, are designed to clarify the conflicts and back stories, and to keep you in suspense after a major crisis. Here we flash back to 1989. when Eli and Aimee-Leigh were rich but not mega-rich, Baby Billy was hoping for a come-back, and young Jesse was jealous of his soon-to-be-born brother Kelvin. 


A Hot Piece of Tail: 
 This is the golden age of televangelism, with Pat Robertson, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, and Jerry Falwell eating up the airwaves -- and blaming homa-sekshuls for everything from teen pregnancy to hurricanes/  They were especially eager to proclaim that homa-sekshuls were trying to destroy society by infecting straight people with AIDS.  In 1989, the number of new cases peaked at 80,000. 

Before the broadcast,  Aimee-Leigh walks around, being friendly to the crew.  Very diverse crew: -- old and young, black and white, women in jobs traditionally held by men, probably gay people.  She compliments Eli as "a hot piece of tail," and he agrees: "I'm sizzling hot."This seems a little gender-transgressive.  Men aren't typically referred to in this way.  Just before the curtain rises, Aimee-Leigh tells Eli, "I'm pregnant."  How playful, and borderline mean!


Family Dinner:  
Lots of gross closeups of 1980s food.  When Aimee-Leigh says that she has news to share, Jesse guesses that Judy has been put up for adoption, and she guesses that he has AIDS. In 1989 evangelicals -- and most of the general public -- thought that only gay men contracted AIDS, so she is "accusing" him of being gay. 

No, Aimee-Leigh says without disciplining them, she is actually having a baby. Jesse wishes that she has a miscarriage, again without discipline, then backtracks: : "I will never like them.  They will never be my friend."  This is a call-back to the Episode 1.1 scene where Jesse is upset with Kelvin because "we used to be friends."  

Judy hopes that it's a boy, so she can teach him how to pee standing up.  Is she accusing Jesse of being a woman?


The Misbehavin' Tour:
At the office, Baby Billy tells the Gemstones about his idea for a Misbehavin' Comeback Tour this spring.  But she can't do it: she is pregnant, due in July (in Season 2, Kelvin says that his birthday is near Christmas, but never mind).

Baby Billy insists that they go on the tour anyway, but she insists that she can't.  How about waiting until after the birth?  Nope.

Billy blames Eli for ruining his come-back: "You're the one who splashed all that sperm all over her."  This is a very odd way of describing heterosexual intercourse, more accurate for guys beat ing off.  Billy seems very jealous; does he wish that Eli had splashed sperm all over him?

The screenshot shows Baby Billy in pain, behind window slats that look like bars. He is trapped, unable to move beyond his days of performing with Aimee-Leigh, blaming Eli for ruining his life. In Season 3, Eli's other brother-in-law will blame him too, with more violent results.  


The Birthday Party: 
After scenes where Jesse is caught arranging little-kid fights and complains that his parents are never around, a we cut to Judy's birthday party.  Guests eating food in disgusting ways (a regular trope in this episode); riding a slip-and-slide; riding ponies.  



What Jesse is looking at after the break. Warning: Explicit.

"It's Florida, Man": Gay guy gets revenge on his ex by blowing up his trailer. Plus what BBC means. Hint: Cock.


The reality series It's Florida, Man, on MAX, has a format similar to Drunken History.   Real-life Floridians tell about doing really stupid things -- agreeing to fill the fantasy of a toe fetishist, swimming in gator-infested waters, fighting the witch next door.  While they and their family and friends are interviewed along the lines of "What were you thinking?", comedians act out the story.  I reviewed the episode with a gay couple.


Scene 1:
Deland, Florida.  Derrick Irving / Echo Kellum wants revenge on his ex, so he comes up with the perfect plan.  Early one morning, when it's still dark out and the ex is at work, he goes to the guy's trailer park, with a getaway driver, wearing a mask so the neighbors wouldn't recognize him, and tries to think of evil stuff to do.  Wouldn't you plan this out in advance?Oh, right, it's Florida, man.

He steals his "good stuff" -- air conditioner, vacuum cleaner, and tv set -- and then blows up the trailer!   



Scene 2:
Derrick introduces himself: 42 years old, living in a trailer, but cooking outside.  He wasn't looking to date, but he went online with "BBC and Cooking" in his profile, and Denver pinged him. Wait -- if you didn't want to date, why the BBC?

On to an interview with Denver/ John Gries. He had just gotten out of a 20-year relationship, moved to DeLand, and wanted companionship.  And a BBC, right?

They go on a date to the Waffle House -- Denver wanted to impress the guy with high-end dining, har har.  

Derrick says he was turned off by Denver's disgusting eating habits, but Denver says that romance was in the air.


On their second date, Denver invited him to the beach.  Wait -- if you were turned off, why agree to a second date?  He didn't mention that it was a nude beach.  Then he kept cajoling Derrick into showing his BBC: "He could not stop staring." So why did you keep seeing this guy?

Next, an interview with 



Derrick's sister, Sheena: He said he really liked Denver, but "this guy is old as shit." 

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