The Disney+ original series Last Days of the Space Age is a gloss-lacquered period drama set in Perth in 1979 that views the past in a misty-eyed way, like somebody recalling a distant summer from long ago.
History can only ever be recreated through the lens of the present, a conundrum that results in some productions – like this – feeling temporally out of sorts, based neither here nor then, with old-looking settings and decor but obviously modern sensibilities.
