The bad news is that we have definitely reached peak capacity for movies and TV comedies about the chaos that ensues after a lifetime of secret sperm donation. After that Vince Vaughn nightmare Delivery Man, I thought it was over, but here we are.
The good news is that Sisters, the latest iteration in the strangely specific yet popular genre, isn't half terrible. After a dying IVF pioneer Julius Bechley confesses to using his own sperm with thousands of his fertility clients over three decades, the Australian dramedy follows the three women who all become connected by one old man who was very, very bad at his job.
Made by Imogen Banks and Jonathan Gavin, the same creative team behind Aussie comedy comfort food Offspring and Puberty Blues, Sisters is a women-fronted series about what happens when you lose - or gain - a massive part of your identity in your 30s. When hundreds of people come forward as suspected "Bechley Babies", for some reason only three of them are women. The trio all lead vastly different lives and are forced to figure out their relationship with each other, on top of figuring out themselves. Just like its television relatives, it's a family drama with as many stupidly funny moments as there are poignant ones.
There's Julia, who has been caring for Julius on his deathbed, only to escape late at night for quick booty calls in her local bar. Played by Maria Angelo, Julia's the shambles of the bunch, trapped in a bedpan-emptying twilight zone as the only child (or so she thought) of a dying parent. "I just want to feel alive and like… alive" she says, downing wine under red lights before having to return to her grim reality. The initial fierce protectiveness turns into a crazed optimism when the news breaks, her nuanced performance a reflection of how people oscillate when their lives are turned inside out.