Barracuda Now on TV
A joint ABC BBC production has put Christos Tsiolkas's novel Barracuda on the TV screen. For those of you who have the BBC I Player all 4 episodes are available for the next three months. Australians might be lucky enough to get it on ABC, but I'm not sure what you poor Americans can do.
Part 1 set in a private school swimming team shows Danny Kelly facing bullying and racism as a scholarship boy trying to benefit from the quality coaching and better facilities that only money can provide.
As the same actors will be playing their parts as young adults in the later episodes very fit and handsome young men were chosen to perform, in this part behaving like school boys. The effect is speedolicious as they enter the swimming pool and become one with the water.
The East European swimming coach is ambitious for his scholarship boy and wants to push him into winning the Australian Schools Championships and beyond.
If you are able to watch the 4 episodes do so, if you can't then read the book, in fact you should read the book anyway.
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12-24-2016, 12:01 AM
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