‘My Brilliant Career’ Star Christopher Chung Thinks the Netflix Show’s “Iconic” Ending is “Absolutely Necessary”

At first glance, Netflix’s new period drama My Brilliant Career looks like your average romance. Set in 1900s Australia, the series follows the irrepressible Sybylla Melvyn (Philippa Northeast), a free-spirited “girl from the bush” who has grand aspirations to be a professional writer. However, her family has other pla

Based on the feminist writer Miles Franklin’s 1901 novel of the same name — and having been previously adapted in Gillian Armstrong’s acclaimed 1979 film starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill — Netflix’s “My Brilliant Career” has a lot to live up to. The Australian period drama, adapted into a series by Liz Doran, is…

Phillipa Northeast is brilliant as a young woman rebelling against society’s expectations in 1890s Australia. It is witty, intelligent and absolutely glorious to watch “I’m hot headed, with a snub nose, and that’s why I prefer a direct gaze.” So speaks Sybylla, the charmingly irrepressible and irrepressibly charming h