Showtime’s ‘The End,’ a Dark Comedy From Australia, Can’t Quite Find Its Tone: TV Review
Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“You’re trying to punish me. Surely the Southern Hemisphere is bad enough.”So says Edie Henley (Harriet Walter) to her daughter Kate (Frances O’Connor) in the early scenes of the drama “The End.” This dark comedy created by Samantha Strauss comes to Showtime after a 2020 run in Australia; its first episode shows us how and why Edie, a widow, has been brought to Australia from her native England.