House of Hancock is Dynasty on steroids

By Michael Idato
Updated February 21 2015 - 12:09am, first published February 20 2015 - 11:45pm
Sam Neill as Lang Hancock and  Peta Sergant as Rose Hancock in <i>House of Hancock</i>. Photo: Adam Fulton
Sam Neill as Lang Hancock and Peta Sergant as Rose Hancock in <i>House of Hancock</i>. Photo: Adam Fulton
Sam Neill as Lang Hancock and  Peta Sergant as Rose Hancock in <i>House of Hancock</i>. Photo: Adam Fulton
Sam Neill as Lang Hancock and Peta Sergant as Rose Hancock in <i>House of Hancock</i>. Photo: Adam Fulton
Sam Neill as Lang Hancock and  Peta Sergant as Rose Hancock in <i>House of Hancock</i>. Photo: Adam Fulton
Sam Neill as Lang Hancock and Peta Sergant as Rose Hancock in <i>House of Hancock</i>. Photo: Adam Fulton
Sam Neill as Lang Hancock and  Peta Sergant as Rose Hancock in <i>House of Hancock</i>. Photo: Adam Fulton
Sam Neill as Lang Hancock and Peta Sergant as Rose Hancock in <i>House of Hancock</i>. Photo: Adam Fulton

At the heart of the Australian narrative, sits something very simple. A sense of the everyday. The kind of banal, slightly demented DNA that gives birth to shows like Neighbours and Kath & Kim, and sends anything with a whiff of ostentation, such as the glitzy but unmemorable Taurus Rising, to an early and bitter grave.

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