of rushing into it: it's been a long engagement, some 20 years since Elizabeth Coleman's play debuted at Melbourne's Malthouse, and 17 years since the ABC first put it on screen.
The bride-to-be is now Olivia , a winemaker who fears the cancer she has kicked is back. Abbie Cornish is Melanie, a married suburban mum and Olivia's best friend since primary school. Irish actress Katie McGrath – playing English, with occasional hiccups – is Saskia, an aggressive lawyer with a voracious sexual appetite and a loathing of commitment that may just be a mask for the fact she's actually in love with Olivia.
In fact, while the thriller element provides plenty of narrative propulsion it's the weakest thing aboutThere's one odd little moment that makes me wonder if the makers of the program weren't entirely convinced either. Cornish's Mel asks her husband to drop the kids at school and heads off to confront Jakob at his office; let's call this 9am. She rams his car. Cut to an ad break. When we come back, the police are there, along with an ambulance. Overkill, perhaps, but OK.
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