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SOME REVIEWERS' THOUGHTS
Cassandra Magrath (Miranda) and Kane McNay (Rupert) really make a believable brother-sister combo. Courtesy of Sunday Herald Sun, 14th June 1998 (Insider article "NICE LINE IN FRIENDSHIP") ***** We have also watched the kids grow, with Laura's daughter, Miranda (star in the making Cassandra Magrath), blossoming into womanhood and the antithesis of her mother's insecurities, and young Rupert (Kane McNay) lose some of his irritating whininess. In the next series (one is planned, although it is yet to be officially announced), I hope to see the Jelly kids, Craig (Cameron Nugent) and Jules (Bryony Price), given more status so that, in tandem with Cassandra, they might engage the next generation. Courtesy
of Sunday Herald Sun, 19th Sept 1999 ***** Magrath, 18, has come of age in a role that has taken her from children's afternoon television into prime-time family viewing. ``I gained an appreciation for a lot of things from working with adults,'' Magrath says. She says the success of SeaChange is both exciting and scary to work on. ``I didn't really have a grasp of how big it was going to be,'' she says. It has brought her respect within the television industry but has also made her self-conscious when she is out and about in public. Courtesy
of The Courier Mail, 26th October 2000 ***** And just to keep the golden theme rolling, Insider would like to present TV Extra's Golden Dream Team for 2000, consisting of the year's standout television performers. The Dream Team is Eddie McGuire, Roy & HG, Suzie Wilks, Lisa McCune, William McInnes, Johanna Griggs, John Clarke, Rebecca Gibney and Rove McManus. No Sigrid Thornton, I hear you bleat, but Siggie is a gimmie in the talent and appeal stakes, and this year Insider felt McInnes enhanced the impact level of Australia's best drama series, SeaChange. The series about a bunch of eccentric residents in the seaside town of Pearl Bay left our screens a few weeks ago, possibly for good, despite becoming the ABC's highest rating drama series. But its creators, Deb Cox and Andrew Knight, deserve heaps of accolades for setting new parameters in Australian series drama. Here are a couple of examples. They introduced an ``ethnic'' character in Phrani Gupta (Georgina Naidu) who was an integral community member and not a token piece of multicultural casting, and they created ``real'' teenage characters in an adult drama (a first in this country) and, in the process, discovered two wonderful emerging talents in Cassandra Magrath (Miranda) and Kane McNay (Rupert). The evolving relationship between young Miranda and Max Conners (McInnes) in the third series was beautifully conceived and written. Courtesy
of Sunday Herald Sun, 31st Dec 2000 ***** Judging by this vibrant, well-paced first episode, the second series of The Crash Zone should build on the astonishing success of the first, which has been screened in more than 30 countries. Headed by a strong young cast including Wildside's Paul Pantano (Marcello) and SeaChange's Cassandra Magrath (Pi), The Crash Zone gives us a believable though altogether brilliant gang of early teens busying themselves with their own futures and the future of computer games at a company named CATALYST. But don't worry: the The Crash Zone crew may be uncommonly smart (and almost inconceivably entrepreneurial) but they crave emotional satisfaction and hot slices of pizza just like we all do. A lot of intelligent, well-scripted fun. Courtesy
of Sydney Morning Herald, 28 May 2001 ***** CASSANDRA Magrath, the young actor who made such an impression as Sigrid Thornton's on-screen daughter, Miranda, in SeaChange, comes of age on the stage this week in her first professional role. Magrath, 19, finished school and now living away from home, is a star on the rise. Her impressive turn as the rapidly maturing and sexually awakening Miranda in SeaChange, particularly the latter episodes opposite William McInnes's Max Connor, signalled that Magrath will evolve into a fine adult actor. Particularly now that she is broadening her range. In the meantime, the stage beckons, plus possibly a third series of The Crash Zone, and, perhaps even more impressively, Magrath has just won the role of presenter for the ABC's planned new digital youth channel. Courtesy
of Sunday Herald Sun, 1st July 2001 *****
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