is one of those very clever television ideas. Written by Australian screenwriter Marieke Hardy back in 2011, it is the story of a young woman who realises that her past lovers are starting to die one by one, and must begin piecing together her sexual past to unravel the mystery of what is going on.
For the American audience, Roo becomes Ruby , but little else changes. And while the series is not itself designed to make bold and profound observations about the parlous state of dating in 2024, both Bradford McKenna and Khan concede the audience can draw some very accessible conclusions from the series.
For American audiences, Khan believes the series taps a deep and existential cultural vein: “There’s so much focus on finding the one and the idea of not being alone and is there something wrong with me? How come I can’t find love?” Khan says. “I think it is in there,” Bradford McKenna says. “I don’t think we set out at all to do anything political. And I think it’s not really on the surface. We never want it to be like, ‘Oh my god, look how many partners I had’.“But you also have that moment of looking at your past and being confronted with it and having to look back at it’s, not the number, not the quantity, but oh god, I didn’t treat that guy very well, or whatever happened with her? So we kind of tried to walk that line.