It's time to grab the shoulder pads and head back to the 1980s once again.
Six-part comedy series Frayed, written by and starring the multi-talented Merewether comedy star Sarah Kendall, is returning to ABC TV and ABC iview this month.
Kendall was nominated for a BAFTA Television Award for her role in the series.
Season two kicks off in London, where the lives and secrets of the Cooper family continue to unravel as they deal with the ramifications of season one's explosive finale, and their Australian past insists on catching up with them. Having made it out of Australia, Sammy (Kendall) and her kids, Lenny (Frazer Hadfield) and Tess (Maggie Ireland-Jones), find themselves living in a tiny London flat, as Sammy frantically tries to prove that her lawyer, Rufus (Robert Webb), stole her house.
Barely able to make ends meet, Sammy is desperate to find a way to reclaim her opulent London life. She also needs to keep her kids far away from Australia and the truth about what happened to their neighbour Terry.
Meanwhile back in Newcastle, where series one was based and filmed, an ambitious cop named Fairbank (Hamish Michael) has been brought in to head up the missing persons case and simply does not believe Terry would just disappear. With Jim (Ben Mingay), Jean (Kerry Armstrong) and Abby (Alexandra Jensen) trying to keep their secret hidden, and con artist Bev (Doris Younane) lurking on the scene, it's only a matter of time before the truth catches up with Sammy.
Kendall told the Newcastle Herald in 2019 that Frayed was "the world of my childhood - Newcastle in the 1980s ... I just wanted to visit my family in Newcastle but I ended up shooting a six-part comedy here."
