This Australian Show on Netflix Is the Next ‘Schitt’s Creek’—and It’s So, So Funny

Like many of us, I swiftly fell in love with the Rose family while binge watching Schitt’s Creek in the middle of the pandemic for their charming idiosyncrasies and off-beat attempts to make new lives for themselves in a totally unfamiliar place. It didn’t hurt that the town was full of equally engaging townsfolk to serve as foils for David, Alexis, Moira and Johnny. And those are exactly the things that made me fall in love with the Netflix comedy Fisk, too, and why it may be the way to satisfy that familiar itch.

The Australian show follows Helen Tudor-Fisk, a middle-aged contracts lawyer starting her life over after divorce and a move from busy Sydney to a quaint suburb of Melbourne. She joins a firm owned by brother and sister duo Ray and Roz Gruber, as well as Gen Z receptionist/webmaster George, and attempts to find her place among her odd coworkers and even odder clients. Helen is almost continually wearing an ill-fitting oversize brown suit (of which she owns three) and has a difficult time relating to her clients’ sometimes peculiar requests. The humor is similar to that of Schitt’s Creek—nuanced, situational and a little dry—and numerous lines had me literally laughing out loud at their absurdity.