Characters with autism are written into a lot of series these days – think The Killing, Dr Martin etc and now the ABC's new political thriller The Code has a main character who is autistic.
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This is Jesse Banks (Ashley Zuberman) who lives in Canberra with his journalist brother Ned (Dan Spelman).
Jesse is a brilliant hacker and is on a good behaviour bond for his previous efforts in that field.
He has a tenuous grip on the way to behave and, in the first episode, breaches security at Parliament House and loses his job at a fast food place.
His brother Ned is a not too successful journalist on a tabloid on-line news agency, but he's trusted by the Government's spin doctors who hand him material on a cabinet minister who has gone off the rails.
However, with the photos and stories given to him on the politician there was just a slip of paper with a name on it.
Curious Ned googles the name and finds out it is a place where two teenagers are missing.
Later he finds that one, a girl, is dead.
He contacts the school and receives a video of what was on the girl's cell phone, but was unable to be deciphered by the teacher Alex (Lucy Lawless).
Jesse manages to retrieve the video which has shots of a corporate truck crashing into the teenagers’ car, and the girl's cries of fear as a man from the truck approaches.
Then it all goes pear-shaped as Ned goes to the desert town to investigate Jesse, is taken by the government's security forces.
The Code is an exciting, well written and acted drama and if the next four episodes are up to the first two – it's a winner!
So very disappointing the AFL Grand Final (Prime), and so badly shot.
The last three Swans' games have had contrasting camerawork.
The first at the Homebush stadium was covered ineptly, sometimes the cameraman was a few seconds later than the ball and the overhead shots were ridiculous.
The next match at Homebush was perfect.
I've rarely seen an AFL match so well shot.
Then the final – and perhaps the cameraman was a Swans' fan, and it didn't help to have half the field in shadow for a while, but it was not nearly as good as the week before.
Perhaps I was just too cranky about the whole thing.