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Angry Boys (2011)

Angry Boys poster
Genre
comedy television series, LGBT-related television series
Country
Australia
Length
1 season, 12 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 34 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mockumentary where one actor plays multiple characters including an American rapper, a Japanese mother, a champion surfer, a detention guard, and her twin grandsons. The series follows these different people through their everyday lives and troubles.

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What happens

Angry Boys is an Australian television mockumentary sitcom miniseries written by and starring Chris Lilley, continuing the mockumentary style of his previous series. In Angry Boys, Lilley plays multiple characters: S.mouse, an American rapper; Jen, a manipulative Japanese mother; Blake Oakfield, a champion surfer; Ruth "Gran" Sims, a guard at a juvenile detention facility; and her teenage grandsons, South Australian twins Daniel and Nathan Sims. Filmed in Melbourne, Los Angeles, and Tokyo, the series is a co-production between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and American cable channel HBO, with a pre-sale to BBC Three in the United Kingdom. Angry Boys premièred on 11 May 2011 at 9:00 pm on ABC1. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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