Last Days of the Space Age (Season 1)

Last Days of the Space Age (2024) is an Australian series you can watch online on iFILM. The setting is Perth, 1979: NASA's Skylab station is tumbling out of orbit toward the town, a Miss Universe pageant is whipping up a media circus, and factory workers walk off the job into a bitter strike.

Three ordinary families try to hold their lives together in the middle of all that noise. One marriage is fraying, an old friendship is tested, and a few of the younger characters start asking what their future even looks like when an entire era is, quite literally, falling out of the sky. The show blends comedy and drama, soaks in the flares-and-disco texture of the late seventies, and uses small private stories to trace how a whole country was shifting.

The cast includes Radha Mitchell, Jesse Spencer, Deborah Mailman and Iain Glen, with Bharat Nalluri at the helm. It's a warm, unhurried piece of nostalgia where the big historical headlines stay in the background and the human drama takes the foreground. A good pick for anyone who enjoys gentle period family sagas. Stream Last Days of the Space Age (2024) online on iFILM.