Based on personal experience.

Think Bridget Jones at a party with Colin From Accounts.

Swipe is all about JULIA, a forty-something, Aussie living in London, who’s equal parts brilliant and hilariously inappropriate. Once a child actor down under, she fell in love and moved to London 15 years ago, mistakenly expecting to cash in on her C-grade TV fame. Today, she signed a deal as the token ‘chick’ with an all-male TV-sketch writing team.

What she doesn’t know is her partner is about to walk out, she’s in early menopause, a doctor will incorrectly diagnose her with a vaginal prolapse, her mother will be correctly diagnosed with cancer and won’t allow Julia to be present during treatment – she’s told to get on with life and come home to Australia, as scheduled, for Christmas, in three months. The 38-hour flight will soon feel like a spa day compared to the family drama awaiting her down under.

After Julia’s long-term boyfriend exits, friends push her into online dating, warning that the odds of finding someone remotely decent are a hundred to one. Undeterred, Julia dives in headfirst, going full-on obsessive with a mission to conquer a hundred dates in the ninety days before she jets off for Christmas. She dives headfirst into the bizarre world of ‘oyerstering,’ ‘liberdating,’ ‘hardballing,’ ‘groundhogs,’ ‘beige flags,’ ‘cookie-jarring,’ and ‘bad-pancakes.’ (laugh – I actually did this).

She ‘breezes’ with spankers, wankers, gangsters, polys, cubs, whiteclaws, autoromantics, the bicurious and the omnisexual. Gets ghosted, orbited, into a situationship, dry dates, drunk dates, is trolled, benched, tracked by a Zombie and pocketed.

It’s practically a full-time gig, but the dating frenzy fuels Julia’s writing. In fact, it makes her sketches a hit (and miss). The guys running the show are unimpressed by any of Julia’s ideas except those she ‘invents’ about dating, attracting an unexpectedly enthusiastic and engaged female audience – a demographic the team was told they needed but wasn’t quite prepared for. Meanwhile, Julia’s family start to notice an uncanny resemblance to themselves in the sketches, intensifying existing tension.

Swipe is about oestrogen. It speaks to all the things we were never told about sex and life in menopause. It’s about letting go of a life with kids and finding out who you are outside social norms. This no-holds-barred show walks the tightrope between instant gratification and commitment, with Season One ending on a cliff-hanger: Julia going on a date with the guy next door to her parents. A near miss, set to continue well into the madness of Season Two and Three.

Throughout the series Julia learns there’s a whole bag of crazy out there and online dating is not for the faint-hearted. To find someone to love, you’ve got to kiss a lot of toads – and perhaps, occasionally, a neighbour.

DURATION

  • 10 x 60’

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