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Lucy and DiC: How to Get Fit Fast

2019

Lucy and DiC: How to Get Fit Fast

2019

  • NFSA IDP5688KRY
  • TypeTelevision
  • MediumMoving Image
  • FormNetworked media (includes mobile phone ring tones micro series and websites), Series
  • GenresComedy
  • Year2019
  • WARNING: This clip contains coarse language

Set in a near-future Adelaide that looks strikingly like the present (just with more robots), this clip from Lucy and DiC follows a young woman navigating the pressures of self-optimisation. Lucy is paired with her 'support drone' DiC but ditches his rough bedside manner for a relentlessly positive 'fitbot'. The interaction between these different interfaces, both human and non-human, reflects the modern tension between technological promise and inconvenient reality.

Creators Tom Phillips and Jeremy Kelly-Bakker describe their series as 'a very silly Black Mirror episode', evident in the clip's exploration of tech anxiety through its buddy comedy conceit. Reflecting the contemporary wellness industry's drive for productivity, Lucy is obsessed with self-improvement. Unfortunately for Lucy, this drive is curtailed by her digital assistant's vague functions and blunt opinions: the more honest DiC's persona becomes, the more Lucy is driven towards the frictionless experience of the fitbot, a total affirmation machine. These layered interactions illuminate complex attitudes about how technology interacts with our lives and self-image, while keeping the tone light.

Voiced by Ethan ‘Ozzy Man’ Marrell, DiC brings a distinctly Australian comedic tone to the series, grounding its speculative setting in familiar cultural rhythms.

  • WARNING: This clip contains coarse language

Set in a near-future Adelaide that looks strikingly like the present (just with more robots), this clip from Lucy and DiC follows a young woman navigating the pressures of self-optimisation. Lucy is paired with her 'support drone' DiC but ditches his rough bedside manner for a relentlessly positive 'fitbot'. The interaction between these different interfaces, both human and non-human, reflects the modern tension between technological promise and inconvenient reality.

Creators Tom Phillips and Jeremy Kelly-Bakker describe their series as 'a very silly Black Mirror episode', evident in the clip's exploration of tech anxiety through its buddy comedy conceit. Reflecting the contemporary wellness industry's drive for productivity, Lucy is obsessed with self-improvement. Unfortunately for Lucy, this drive is curtailed by her digital assistant's vague functions and blunt opinions: the more honest DiC's persona becomes, the more Lucy is driven towards the frictionless experience of the fitbot, a total affirmation machine. These layered interactions illuminate complex attitudes about how technology interacts with our lives and self-image, while keeping the tone light.

Voiced by Ethan ‘Ozzy Man’ Marrell, DiC brings a distinctly Australian comedic tone to the series, grounding its speculative setting in familiar cultural rhythms.

  • Production Company
    We Made a Thing Studios
    Cast
    Lucy Gransbury
    Cast
    Ethan Marrell
    Cinematographer
    Aaron Schuppan
    Creators
    Jeremy Kelly-Bakker, Tom Phillips
    Producer
    Tom Phillips
    Scriptwriter
    Tom Phillips
    Director
    Jeremy Kelly-Bakker
    Film Editor
    Krystle Penhall
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