Laid
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Synopsis
When all your ex-boyfriends are dropping dead, is it time to take it personally?

What happens when a boyfriend you’d rather forget about from your past dies in horrible circumstances? Are you supposed to go to the funeral? Do you murmur platitudes about him to his loved ones? Roo McVie is faced with these questions and more. It’s enough to make any single girl re-live some of her murkier sexual moments. When a second ex meets an untimely end, she’s forced to think a little harder... Add a third and things start getting really weird! Is it just her overactive imagination, or should she face facts – all the men she has slept with are dying. What does this mean for future relationships? Can she ever go to bed with her thrilling new boyfriend Charlie? Or will he join the constantly-growing list of fatalities... Time is of the essence and Roo is convinced that she will meet a similar deadly fate on her 30th birthday if she is unable to break the pattern. Laid is a black comedy following the trials and tribulations of Roo McVie; a story of friendship, love and growing up – even when you don’t want to.

Season Premiere: Wednesday 9 Feb at 9.30pm on ABC (Australia) STARRING: Alison Bell (I Rock, Rush, Last Man Standing), Celia Pacquola (Comedy circuit - Flying Solo, Television- Good News Week, Rove, Spicks and Specks) CREATED BY: Marieke Hardy & Kirsty Fisher DIRECTOR: Trent O’Donnell EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Debbie Lee PRODUCER: Liz Watts (Producer of Oscar Nominated film Animal Kingdom)

Duration
6 x 30'
Definition
HD
Genre
Comedy
Subgenre
Series
Producer
Porchlight Films
Production Year
2010
Awards

Winner - 'Best Comedy Series', AACTA Awards 2012

Press
The Age Green Guide – Debo Enker, 3/2/11 "Fresh & Feisty" "Cheeky Charmer" "Spins it's own sly and winning take on life, love, sex and death" "Sharply observed comedy of modern manners" The Australian – Graeme Blundell, 6/2/11 Laid has a dry tone that takes the mundane and familiar and somehow renders it absurd and often outrageous. The Age M Magazine – Melinda Houston, 6/2/11 Laid gets just about everything right. …whip smart dialogue… SMH, The Guide – Greg Hassall. 7/6/11 … intelligent, darly funny and refreshingly free of banal gender stereotypes … a gentle, low key comedy with a good heart that captures the awkwardness of relationships beautifully. …wonderful, full of witty banter, obscure sland and gloriously smutty asides that almost slip by unnoticed.