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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Patrick Lenton

The Residence: new Netflix series proves the US is weirdly obsessed with Aussie culture

A scene in a room of the white house, showing Randall Park in a grey business suit looking alarmed standing next to Kylie Minogue in a white official White House bath robe, looking shocked, with Isiah Whitlock Jr. dressed in ceremonial military uniform standing in the background looking puzzled.
Randall Park as Edwin Park and Kylie Minogue as Kylie Minogue in The Residence, streaming on Netflix. Photograph: Jessica Brooks/Netflix

There is nothing more lazy and pointless and intellectually bankrupt than making sweeping generalisations about an entire country – but America is too stupid to understand this rule, as we all know, therefore we have Netflix’s The Residence on our screens.

Shondaland’s miniseries is a fun murder-mystery whodunnit set in the White House, where the crime in question takes place during a state dinner. Starring Uzo Aduba as the delightfully whimsical detective Cordelia Cupp, the show deliberately follows in the steps of the popular Knives Out series, with direct references to those films and even an episode titled Knives Out.

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