User Reviews

The show is a little silly at times.

Some parts are funny and some parts do bring attention to the new way kids think, speak and act. It goes into a little bit of the way people seem to try to hard to be their background ethnicity and also the white saviour (the mum of the main chick). Not the best Aussie comedy but it was ok and short enough to watch in one sitting. The main actress is quite good looking and I hope she does more shows.

Some other good shows would be black comedy, preppers, fisk, auntie Donna's big ole house of fun, summer heights high, angry boys.

Overall it was funny in parts and a little cringe in parts and awkward in others.

I would recommend if you want to watch something that doesn't take itself too seriously and has some funny moments.

The show is at its best amongst the ambiguity of its themes, but will brush ambiguity aside for a spoon fed black and white answer pretty consistently.

In the final scene of the show, one of the characters excruciatingly explains the moral of the story. Stilted dialogue aside, the plot doesn't explain our characters coming to this conclusion at all.

If your characters decide at the end that their big mistake is something worth trying again, your plot has failed its message.

A quasi-comical look at the worst of Zoomer / Millennial stereotypes with a diverse cast and the occasional great one liner help get you to the end of each episode.

The two anti-hero leads are shallow and vapid, willingly caught in an echo chamber of their own self centred perceptions. It makes them cruel and uncaring to almost everyone they come in contact with.

"All my friends are racist" refreshingly touches on a few taboos and important topics, but the characters are so clueless, most of the discussion is reduced to tired soundbites. There are moments where you think they are about to learn something real, but ultimately they learn nothing.

To make sure we know there's nothing to take seriously, the season starts and ends with the two of the metaphorically ugliest characters we've seen in some time saying "I'm so glad we're not ugly"

I like the idea of this concept, but I really couldn't get behind the characters. I think there was a better way to do this that wasn't as vapid or surface level. In truth, it relies on the characters being indigenous instead of giving them actual character.

That's not the best for representation, indigenous people are multifaceted human beings, let's represent them that way, even in short form comedy.

The kids are alright, I found this a fantastic albeit short journey and front seat into younger First Nation Australians. The ln-your-face humour and fun cast of characters that could also be appealing to the LGBTI community as well as Australian People of Colour. We need more diverse shows like this! I thought this was a great ride and laughed out loud many times. Only thing was it was a bit short, I'd love to see more!

As a piece of film backed on a national and state level, this show has arrived suspiciously quietly. In fact, aside from general announcement and a bit of discussion from people directly connected to the production, there is scant press about 'All My Friends are Racist' at all.

One promo article on the Daily Mail (of all places) which seems almost calculated to drum up non-existent controversy focusses on the first episode's anilingus scene. This seems a good place to start, as by both creator and commentator, this has been singled out as one of the more noteworthy inclusions. As puerile and taboo breaking as the show tries to be, the cumulative effect of all the jokes in this vein is simply unimaginative and boring. A very well known television comedy ran almost the exact same rimming joke a few weeks ago, where I would contend it was similarly unfunny and un-shocking. 'All My Friends Are Racist' was shot before this particular airing; it isn't an issue of plagiarism, rather an issue of generic, lowest common denominator pop culture tropes, something the crew behind the show have described as being offensive and shocking.

A few rude remarks aside on the comment section, the show's chances of stoking this controversy seem impossible, although the pre-release Daily Mail press almost seems like a planted attempt at doing so. Middle aged conservative voters who already feel aggrieved by the ABC being funded will not enjoy - but this was never the audience for this show. I don't think even minor scale backlash is a reasonable description for some angry facebook comments in the single digits.

The show supplants its location to the COVID free state of Queensland. It even invents a 'New Farm Yacht Club', to substitute for what was clearly a Sydney Eastern Suburbs conceived scene. Even with a short run time and ample lead up to attune the script to the new environment, the show can't think on its feet. The influencer main characters would surely have their equivalents outside of Sydney, but ring immensely untrue in the context of the shooting location. I also believe Elite high schools play a lesser role in the city's social makeup, compared to their palpable influence in Sydney. Brisbane has its own flavour and social issues, why not respond to these instead? The issue regarding the location's social makeup is in itself not the problem, it is the irony considering the show's themes of authenticity of identity, and lack of self-awareness.

I sympathise with the creators in the sense that, whilst funded, in all probability did not have an enormous budget, something the handful of, series unseen, negative commenters probably don't appreciate. Some of this money would have hired local film workers - which is a good thing. However, whilst it may not have been the costliest undertaking, I think this is a shocking piece of funded film, a very unimpressive just-over-an-hour of television. There are so many more interesting filmmaking voices, First Nations voices that could be picked up. Filled with buzzwords, and post-colonial terminology, the show ultimately has nothing to say.

2 stars, is generous, and really an attempt to beat the algorithm. This is as dreary a project as you are likely to see come out of Australian film and television this, or any other year.

What better way to deal with everyday racism than with humour. This show is funny, in-your-face, satirical and relatable. I laughed-out-loud many times, both from the dialogue and the quirky and deliberately hilarious cinematography. I appreciated the satirising of white saviours, the representation of Belle's modern struggle with her identity and the exploration of the dangers of commodifying activism. This show reminds me of some my friends who fabulously navigate a society not built for them, and I loved it.

Problematic and Crypto-fascist portrayals of in-groups and out-groups.

Despite criticisms that this show doesn't say anything and the characters are superficial blabla .. I think it's amazing.

Why does it have to be deep or educational. Is it ok for it just to be fun? I feel like it's full of 'in' jokes that people of a certain scene will get and others may miss.

This is not supposed to be a serious representation of Aboriginal people or the issues that impact them. It is supposed to be a fun representation of two Aboriginal characters and the way they navigate racism.....AND I LOVED IT!

Don't hold this to some kinda documentary standard, or some kind of multi dimensional character driven drama, watch it as the fun and fresh quip about society and racism that it is!