Invisible Boys

And so the streamers haven't been here for very long.

And Stan is... now post the period that I look at starting to stake a claim as a producer of Australian drama and they are making more and probably one of the most recent things they made Invisible Boys is a really big shift and quite a bold shift for Australian drama they are pushing boundaries for what is aimed at a younger audience as well like it's kind of intended for a YA audience in a That is a great boundary pushing series that is taking big risks in how they show intimacy between men and show young men taking risks in the way that Russell T Davies did in Curious Folk in 1999.

The way that being in a regional community can cause you to seek out exploration of your sexuality in really risky ways.

And that's an important conversation for us to be seeing on screen and having conversations about as a community as well.

Fingers crossed.

Now, I'll bet you were talking about a book launch you just had recently and it was launched by the director, was it of Invisible Boys, which was a phenomenal book, of course.

Nick

Versa,

Like, the costumes were absolutely next level.

And the one thing I will say about McKenna and Joseph, who was also in Invisible Boys, which was written by my good friend Holden Shepherd, and I wish I had have brought my copy of Invisible Boys for him to sign 'cause I actually got to meet Joseph and he was just so lovely.

It was very brief because obviously he was being swamped, but I will say they spent time with everyone.

There was one point where McKenna was dancing on the dance floor with everyone, and I just wanna share this very special moment.

And then of course, we've gotta point out that there's an Aussie actor in this, and it's Joseph Zada.

Now, he played Charlie in Invisible Boys, which we named as one of the 70 best shows of Australian TV on our extra special podcasts where we did decade by decade.

I didn't actually recognize him in this first, James.

I was like, "I think I kinda know who you are." And then it suddenly dawned on me, "Wow, hang on.

I know that sounds really like okay but even as far as my social media presence I don't really engage in anything negative because the power of positivity has been I think is really underrated and I think it's a nice feeling when people can come up to you and be like I saw that thing you're in it made me really happy or you You know, sometimes important things.

I was in a show called Invisible Boys a couple of years ago on Stan and that was like a challenging storyline but really important.

What was the storyline for those who might not have seen it? It was about a group of young

gay men that grew up in, growing up in Geraldton, which is a really small country town in Western Australia, around the time of the gay marriage referendum.

All right, the last show we've got to look at individually on this episode and the last...

Number 70 on our list from 70 shows from the last seven decades is Invisible Boys on Stan.

And a quick plug, Andrew and I have done a special episode of TV Gold where we spoke with the author, Holden Shepard, about this.

So Andrew, you're going to talk to us a little bit about Invisible Boys.

Yeah, I started re-watching it last night.

I thought I'll just watch one episode and I ended up watching four and going to finish it.

I thought it was instant classic when I first saw it.

And I stand by that today.