Offspring is such a good watch. Discovered by accident on Netflix I've watched all 7 seasons twice. The show manages to combine comedy, with romance and heavy tragedy so well. Absolutely none of the characters are miscast and do work plausibly as an extended family - which is what the majority of the main characters are. Asher Keddie as main character Nina is just brilliant, as is Kat Stewart who plays her sister Billie. My absolute favourite character I think is actually their mother, Geraldine who can quite often steal a scene with just a look or a cutting one liner.
Series 1-5 are probably Offspring at its best, with some incredibly moving scenes around a death of a major character later on. Series 6 is possibly where the show does start to feel a little tired. It's still good, but you do feel like you've begun to have seen all of this before. Series 7 is the final series and actually pulls the show back up to a satisfying conclusion. It wasn't an official series end as such, but no further series have been made and they could just leave it without a series 8 because everything kind of ties up. Everyone living their lives in scruffy/trendy inner suburban Melbourne.
