Stan’s new series Bump enters the pantheon of great Australian TV, with Claudia Karvan, teen pregnancy and diversity

Believe it or not, 2021 already has a contender for best Australian show of the year: Stan series Bump, which dropped its first season of 10 half-hour episodes on New Year’s Day.

The show was soon trending on Twitter as many — either stuck home due to COVID restrictions or perhaps recovering from some of the previous night’s festivities — were sucked in by its charm.

According to the streaming service, the series has already “broken viewing records for Stan since its launch”.

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So what is Bump about?

At the start of the series, we meet Olympia (Oly) Chalmers-Davis, an ambitious, painfully-determined inner-Sydney high school student who has a 10-year plan that begins with blitzing her way through her remaining years of high school…