Rexless

Away doing things unrelated to Rex, so as a filler, here's a review of Rex I had published in the now defunct SMH TV Guide 'The List', November 2007.


With eight series of the Austrian police drama Inspector Rex on continual loop, have the SBS lunatics left the asylum? No, it's the viewers that are mad...mad about Rex, mad about ham rolls and hopping mad if the show disappears from the viewing schedule. Ah, Vienna! No matter that episode titles like "Moser's Death" let the cat (down Rex!) well and truly out of the bag, that the cast have only one outfit apiece or that the plots have holes big enough to swallow the never-ending supply of afore-mentioned ham rolls. Who cares? For fans, it's all about the German Shepherd who outwits his human sidekicks and saves the day. Promoted as family viewing, the scenes portraying sex and violence may be inappropriate for younger audiences. And, as Rex is back to series one, the scenes showing Moser (Tobias Moretti) naked may be inappropriate for any audience. Servus!

Oh, and here's this week's fascinating story from the Austrian Times, Dial-a-Dominatrix.

Rex Review

A Rex review from The Age here.

Rex as a comedy? Sure it has its lighter moments but, on the whole, I think Marike Hardy just doesn't get it. After all, millions of Rex fans worldwide can't be wrong, gel?