31-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
The SBS atomic doco that is a real bomb
It says it right there in the title - After Trinity - Trinity being the first ever test of an atomic bomb in 1945.
And yet this one-hour doco spends quite a bit of time focusing on what happened before Trinity.
Talk about a case of false advertising.
Other black marks against this doco include interviewing a subject in a noisy bar full of distracting background noise and even having the producer sit down for an interview.
Really? Was there no other way of relaying the information other than interviewing the person making the doco?
It's also sprinkled with very odd phrasing, such as stating that Robert Oppenheimer was between "a rock and a hard spot".
It's "place" - "a rock and a hard place".
My advice? Don't waste your time with this.
This show isn't everyone's cup of tea, which is completely understandable.
Some people just don't respond well to the sight of blood - their own or anyone else's - nor do they like limbs pointed in unnatural ways.
I'm okay with that sort of stuff so I've never had an issue with an episode of Paramedics.
That is until I watched this one.
It features a guy named Charlie who was headed home and decided to take a short cut that involved climbing a fence.
A metal fence. With big pointy spikes on top.
One of those spikes ripped right through his upper arm, and the camera crew has no qualms with showing us what it looks like when the paramedic peels off the bandages.
For the first time in my Paramedics-watching history I had to turn away.
So this episode is definitely not for the squeamish. Though they would be unlikely to get to see Charlie's story.
Before that turns up they'd have to deal with the story of Malcolm, who tripped while carrying a boiling hot crabpot - ending up with burns over most of his body.
This series is a spin-off from the Real Housewives franchise, which seems to feature women who latch onto wealthy men and do little more than have bitchy little fights with each other.
Four of the women from various iterations of that show turn up at the Love Hotel, where the "Love Concierge" has assembled a selection of men for them to date.
Yeah, it's yet another dating show (BTW can you still call them "Housewives" if they're not actually anyone's wife?). This time with the added disgust that the women openly joke about wanting to find the rich guys.
Their method is to focus on the "silver foxes" because, if they're older it means they have more money in the bank.
I long for the days when people would watch a dating show because they actually cared whether the couples found happiness.
These days it's more about conflict than compatibility.
It says it right there in the title - After Trinity - Trinity being the first ever test of an atomic bomb in 1945.
And yet this one-hour doco spends quite a bit of time focusing on what happened before Trinity.
Talk about a case of false advertising.
Other black marks against this doco include interviewing a subject in a noisy bar full of distracting background noise and even having the producer sit down for an interview.
Really? Was there no other way of relaying the information other than interviewing the person making the doco?
It's also sprinkled with very odd phrasing, such as stating that Robert Oppenheimer was between "a rock and a hard spot".
It's "place" - "a rock and a hard place".
My advice? Don't waste your time with this.
This show isn't everyone's cup of tea, which is completely understandable.
Some people just don't respond well to the sight of blood - their own or anyone else's - nor do they like limbs pointed in unnatural ways.
I'm okay with that sort of stuff so I've never had an issue with an episode of Paramedics.
That is until I watched this one.
It features a guy named Charlie who was headed home and decided to take a short cut that involved climbing a fence.
A metal fence. With big pointy spikes on top.
One of those spikes ripped right through his upper arm, and the camera crew has no qualms with showing us what it looks like when the paramedic peels off the bandages.
For the first time in my Paramedics-watching history I had to turn away.
So this episode is definitely not for the squeamish. Though they would be unlikely to get to see Charlie's story.
Before that turns up they'd have to deal with the story of Malcolm, who tripped while carrying a boiling hot crabpot - ending up with burns over most of his body.
This series is a spin-off from the Real Housewives franchise, which seems to feature women who latch onto wealthy men and do little more than have bitchy little fights with each other.
Four of the women from various iterations of that show turn up at the Love Hotel, where the "Love Concierge" has assembled a selection of men for them to date.
Yeah, it's yet another dating show (BTW can you still call them "Housewives" if they're not actually anyone's wife?). This time with the added disgust that the women openly joke about wanting to find the rich guys.
Their method is to focus on the "silver foxes" because, if they're older it means they have more money in the bank.
I long for the days when people would watch a dating show because they actually cared whether the couples found happiness.
These days it's more about conflict than compatibility.
It says it right there in the title - After Trinity - Trinity being the first ever test of an atomic bomb in 1945.
And yet this one-hour doco spends quite a bit of time focusing on what happened before Trinity.
Talk about a case of false advertising.
Other black marks against this doco include interviewing a subject in a noisy bar full of distracting background noise and even having the producer sit down for an interview.
Really? Was there no other way of relaying the information other than interviewing the person making the doco?
It's also sprinkled with very odd phrasing, such as stating that Robert Oppenheimer was between "a rock and a hard spot".
It's "place" - "a rock and a hard place".
My advice? Don't waste your time with this.
This show isn't everyone's cup of tea, which is completely understandable.
Some people just don't respond well to the sight of blood - their own or anyone else's - nor do they like limbs pointed in unnatural ways.
I'm okay with that sort of stuff so I've never had an issue with an episode of Paramedics.
That is until I watched this one.
It features a guy named Charlie who was headed home and decided to take a short cut that involved climbing a fence.
A metal fence. With big pointy spikes on top.
One of those spikes ripped right through his upper arm, and the camera crew has no qualms with showing us what it looks like when the paramedic peels off the bandages.
For the first time in my Paramedics-watching history I had to turn away.
So this episode is definitely not for the squeamish. Though they would be unlikely to get to see Charlie's story.
Before that turns up they'd have to deal with the story of Malcolm, who tripped while carrying a boiling hot crabpot - ending up with burns over most of his body.
This series is a spin-off from the Real Housewives franchise, which seems to feature women who latch onto wealthy men and do little more than have bitchy little fights with each other.
Four of the women from various iterations of that show turn up at the Love Hotel, where the "Love Concierge" has assembled a selection of men for them to date.
Yeah, it's yet another dating show (BTW can you still call them "Housewives" if they're not actually anyone's wife?). This time with the added disgust that the women openly joke about wanting to find the rich guys.
Their method is to focus on the "silver foxes" because, if they're older it means they have more money in the bank.
I long for the days when people would watch a dating show because they actually cared whether the couples found happiness.
These days it's more about conflict than compatibility.
It says it right there in the title - After Trinity - Trinity being the first ever test of an atomic bomb in 1945.
And yet this one-hour doco spends quite a bit of time focusing on what happened before Trinity.
Talk about a case of false advertising.
Other black marks against this doco include interviewing a subject in a noisy bar full of distracting background noise and even having the producer sit down for an interview.
Really? Was there no other way of relaying the information other than interviewing the person making the doco?
It's also sprinkled with very odd phrasing, such as stating that Robert Oppenheimer was between "a rock and a hard spot".
It's "place" - "a rock and a hard place".
My advice? Don't waste your time with this.
This show isn't everyone's cup of tea, which is completely understandable.
Some people just don't respond well to the sight of blood - their own or anyone else's - nor do they like limbs pointed in unnatural ways.
I'm okay with that sort of stuff so I've never had an issue with an episode of Paramedics.
That is until I watched this one.
It features a guy named Charlie who was headed home and decided to take a short cut that involved climbing a fence.
A metal fence. With big pointy spikes on top.
One of those spikes ripped right through his upper arm, and the camera crew has no qualms with showing us what it looks like when the paramedic peels off the bandages.
For the first time in my Paramedics-watching history I had to turn away.
So this episode is definitely not for the squeamish. Though they would be unlikely to get to see Charlie's story.
Before that turns up they'd have to deal with the story of Malcolm, who tripped while carrying a boiling hot crabpot - ending up with burns over most of his body.
This series is a spin-off from the Real Housewives franchise, which seems to feature women who latch onto wealthy men and do little more than have bitchy little fights with each other.
Four of the women from various iterations of that show turn up at the Love Hotel, where the "Love Concierge" has assembled a selection of men for them to date.
Yeah, it's yet another dating show (BTW can you still call them "Housewives" if they're not actually anyone's wife?). This time with the added disgust that the women openly joke about wanting to find the rich guys.
Their method is to focus on the "silver foxes" because, if they're older it means they have more money in the bank.
I long for the days when people would watch a dating show because they actually cared whether the couples found happiness.
These days it's more about conflict than compatibility.
