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Tim Minchin, a dazzlingly clever comic songwriter who might be far more popular if his humour wasn't so aggressive and caustic, wrote and stars in the eight-part series.

He plays Lucky, a gaunt-eyed drinker who is trying to drive across Australia towing a piano, to see his terminally ill mother. His plans come adrift when, after mixing booze and medication, he crashes his car on a remote scrubland road.

His piano isn't damaged, but the 16-year-old driver of the other vehicle is. She's broken her wrist. Lucky offers to drive her to hospital...and from the moment he wrestles his seatbelt into place, we know they're going to be stuck with each other.

If the idea isn't too original, the dialogue is. It's jagged, fast and unsentimental, with a tendency to spiral off into philosophical arguments.

Though it's frustrating to see new comedy locked away on a pay-to-view channel, there's no way the BBC would have made this show.

It's very...Australian.