‘Safe suspense’: Masked Singer aims to distract mid-pandemic – Sydney Morning Herald

In an increasingly unpredictable world, The Masked Singer Australia offers viewers its own form of guessing game. But while it’s fun to sit at home and speculate about whether singer Kate Miller-Heidke is really the voice behind “the Queen” or if drag superstar Courtney Act is the “dragonfly”, the stakes aren’t all that high if you get the answer wrong.
Dr Liz Giuffre, a senior communications lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney, described the tension conjured by Network 10’s whacky …

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