Get Krack!n's Ikonik

Warning
This guide and all of my reviews contain occasional bits of rude language,
and opinions some people might find offensive but for which I won’t apologise.
                    Don’t read any further unless you are open-minded.
As hard as I try not to give away too much, I can't guarantee there are no spoilers.

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Get Krack!n TV Comedy Series Australia 2 Seasons 2017 ABC TV, DVD, iTunes

Iconic, almost subversive.

Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney take a swipe at morning lifestyle television.


To be fair, I really, really love about 5% of the men and women I meet and I just tolerate about 90%, while the remaining 5% do my head in… And the 5% that do my head in all seem to be on morning television or talkback radio.

As if most Australian TV isn’t absolute crap – real lowest common denominator stuff relieved only by the tedium of ads for rubbish nobody in their right mind could possibly want or consider paying for – all over the country, people get up early and for some reason turn on their TVs and let morons tell them what to think or do.

Get Krackin's two Kates first became popular with their web-based pretend cooking series The Katering Show. This latest ABC series has never a dull moment – it’s “packed like a colon after a long haul flight”.

Get Krack!n is crude AF so be warned - if you don’t like bad language or are in any way sensitive, stay away. It’s not for the faint hearted. The last episode of season 2 features a segment on how to clean a dick properly so naturally we see one – then pan to a picture of a bottle of quick lime. Ouch.

The crawl at the bottom of the screen throughout each episode shows the time like morning TV usually does, and also provides constant snarky headlines letting us know how the world really ticks. These are as much fun as any of the guest, advertiser, infomercial or other segments.

(The show is ostensibly broadcast to the US, at 3.00 a.m. Australian EST in time for the mid-morning market in the USA.)

As some of the sample headlines shown here suggest, Get Krack!n is decidedly anti-hate and at times subversive. The show – much like Australia itself – is predominantly white, but is actively anti-racist. One or two episodes or segments are duds, but for the most part Get Krack!n is brilliant.

Here's a great trick - For Disability Day, we have two AUSLAN interpreters in the bottom left of our screen and I can only speak two words of AUSLAN. The word "dickhead" appears just often enough to confirm what I suspect, which is that what the interpreters are talking about sometimes has little to do with what's happening elsewhere on the set. It's possibly healthy for me to feel excluded occasionally.


Disability Day Episode asks "What is diversity and..." 

The crawl message "What is diversity and how can white people monetize it?" probably deserves an honourable mention. Get Krack!n doesn't take this any further, but as hate speech is a real problem and I live in a country built on denial and devoid of leadership, let me provide you with this message from Jay Smooth:

https://twitter.com/jsmooth995/status/996799108525514753?lang=en

Now, after that word from your sponsor (Maude) back to the show!

Episode 02x08 of Get Krack!n is a special treat that went viral – featuring Miranda Tapsell and Nakkiah Lui as hosts, it ends with a savage but long overdue denunciation of Australia’s Systemic Racism.

(For outsiders, Sunrise is an early morning breakfast show on the 7 network that regularly hosts extreme right wing politicians, and is hosted by people with typically racist white political views.)

IT'S ACTUALLY A GIF - PLEASE KLIK

Although I was able to get subtitles while streaming the show from the ABC online, and can usually get subtitles when I buy ABC series on disc, this is the first ABC production I’ve bought through iTunes and I’m disappointed there are no subtitles with it.

MA 15+ cos the language is crude AF, though the content is refreshingly inoffensive from my POV.