The eight-part series is said to be in the same style as Guest's mockumentaries, such as the acclaimed This is Spinal Tap and Best in Show.

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For the uninitiated, the multi-talented Lilley is both the author and star of a string of closely observed mockumentaries that offer the most merciless parodies on modern Australian life.

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This sort of thing is much better accomplished in novels (alternative histories such as Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle") or movies ("mockumentaries" like "This Is Spinal Tap").

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