. But the musical parody genre is an even rarer beast, musicalising unexpected subjects such as the housing crisis – in SBS’s short and zippy comedyHere that rather loose criteria essentially means stories the writers – Chris Taylor and Andrew Hansen of the comedy group the Chaser – felt were ripe for satire .
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Making this the final episode makes sense; perhaps the producers believed audiences needed to warm up to it. If the series had been made during the original era of the Chaser, in the early 2000s, it surely would have been louder and bolder; instead, much of Australian Epic’s humour pokes at the idea of Australia as a kind of wannabe western nation stranded in nowhere , rather than having more particular and pointed things to say.