Coming to Netflix next week

Here’s the first trailer for Chris Lilley’s new Netflix series Lunatics.

In the show, the Summer Heights High creator play a pet psychologist to the stars, a real estate entrepreneur, a cutting edge fashion designer, a budding museum owner, an arts and crafts influencer, and the 12-year-old future Earl of Gayhurst.

The series was shot in Queensland last year, despite a storm over his use of blackface to play Jonah from Tonga and the rapper character S.Mouse. The characters he plays in Lunatics all appear to be white.

Netflix's description of the characters is as follows:

• Keith, a fashion retail veteran embarking on a new business venture who struggles with objective sexuality issues and his deep love for a cash register.
• Becky, an extraordinarily tall University freshman embarking on life in an American college with her twin sister and dealing with social issues and life with massive legs.
• Gavin, a confronting young boy and future Earl of an English country estate dealing with the pressures of his future and trying to be a kid.
• Jana, a lesbian Pet Psychic to the Stars who from her South African home base struggles with an unrequited love for her personal assistant.
• Quentin, an incompetent real estate agent about to inherit a family business who dreams of being a world-renowned DJ and street artist.
• Joyce, an eccentric elderly ex porn star and hoarder who is now a recluse who obsessively collects things while facing an impending eviction.

 The ten-part series launches next Friday.

Published: 11 Apr 2019