TV review - "Summer Heights High" (2007)

Enjoying this enormously. Three characters are all strong - the gay drama teacher is perhaps the most obvious but he's still hilarious. The greatness lies in the Jonah character - full marks to Chris Lilley for having the guts to go there (ten years ago I imagine it would have been a nightmare to get through the ABC.) Much of the casting is spot on -the slightly bitch principal, the photo of the teacher with the enormous beard. (The show is, unexpectedly, something of a tribute to teachers, doing their best despite everything). Have to pay particular credit to the first episode gag where Mr G talks about the bushes being cut down "because a girl was raped behind them last year... so we put up this anti-rape mural". Public education has never been so succinctly described.