This ABC show is Australia’s answer to the UK’s acclaimed series It’s a Sin – but it doesn’t commit enough to its inherently camp premise
ydney, 1983. “A city of refuge,” a chirpy narrator tells us in the opening shots of the ABC’s new drama In Our Blood. “Because every freak needs a home, a culture, a language.” Oxford Street brims with pleasure seekers of all denominations: hirsute hunks hand-in-hand with shirtless beefcakes, mouthy drag queens encrusted in glitter, shocks of coloured hair and fuzzy moustaches roaming a nightclub flanked by silvery curtains.
Among the revellers is David , a political upstart who’s relocating far away from Sydney’s queer mecca in pursuit of his government ambitions. Well, just three hours away – but worlds apart from his longtime paramour Gabe , who’s moved all the way from Colombia to be with him. Before we know it, we’re bundled to Canberra, where David works as a staffer for Jeremy , the federal health minister.
In Our Blood does well to evoke the resourcefulness of the queer community; shrugged away by official bodies, grassroots groups begin leafletting night clubs and saunas with raunchy how-tos on safe sex. But that same community grows unwieldy as the show continues, introducing so many characters that it’s difficult to invest in any singular storyline.
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