My Brilliant CareerPhilippa Northeast delivers a tour de force performance in a very modern take on an Australian classic. There’s a scene in the opening episode of Netflix series My Brilliant Career where the characters dance a colonial jig to the song Young Turks by Rod Stewart. Just as a rebooted Little House on the Prairie introduces Native American perspectives, My Brilliant Career also weaves First Nations perspectives into the story, such as when Nell is told, “You can’t trust a copper, sis.” And like Bridgerton‘s fusing of a new spin on period stories for broad success, My Brilliant Career is a bold and incandescent take, pulsating with vigor and one very unstoppable protagonist in Sybylla. My Brilliant Career screens Thursday 13 August 0n Netflix.