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Damien O'Meara, Lecturer, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University

Homebodies: bold TV about a trans man, his mother and the conversations they never had

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When Nora (Claudia Karvan) breaks her leg, her son Darcy (Luke Wiltshire) – a trans man – returns home to see her for the first time since he came out. It doesn’t take long before Darcy realises there’s another presence in his childhood home: a ghost of his younger pre-transition self, Dee (Jazi Hall).

Homebodies examines the rift between a trans man and his mother through a haunting that confronts them with the conversations they never had.

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