What you need to know about My Brilliant Career on Netflix

watercooler moment The series is based on a classic Australian novel. IF THERE IS a period drama-shaped hole in your heart, get ready for a new series that looks like it’ll be one of the hits of the year: My Brilliant Career. The Australian drama landed on Netflix on Thursday, and is being called a “horny, bonkers” tak

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…