With Kylie Minogue playing herself, a prime minister named Roos and Steve Irwin jokes, this murder-mystery is also a comedically reductive depiction of Australian culture
There is nothing more lazy and pointless and intellectually bankrupt than making sweeping generalisations about an entire country – but America is too stupid to understand this rule, as we all know, therefore we have Netflix’s The Residence on our screens.
Shondaland’s miniseries is a fun murder-mystery whodunnit set in the White House, where the crime in question takes place during a state dinner. Starring Uzo Aduba as the delightfully whimsical detective Cordelia Cupp, the show deliberately follows in the steps of the popular Knives Out series, with direct references to those films and even an episode titled Knives Out.
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