Local TV warhorse Outrageous Fortune ran its season 5 finale last night, and it was a corker. After some traditional end-of-season antics it delivered a change-up in literally the last few seconds, going out on a serious game-changer of a cliffhanger, hands-over-mouth stuff that smartly built on everything we’d seen before. Outstanding work – Outrageous was wheelspinning in the first third of this season but really got moving after that, and this was a great capper.
Interesting too to see #outrageous as a trending topic on Twitter, which means that it was one of the most tweeted-about subjects globally. (It helped that America was asleep.) In Twitters self-devouring world, the moment it showed up in the “trending topics” list it started getting noticed and grabbed up. It continues to trend as I write, now as a general tag for writers to talk about what outrages them. What the heck, it’s another Kiwi contribution to the global pop culture conversation – like those lets-make-a-pop-band shows. Er.
Ahhh, gotta go catch a bus.