Get Krack!n

Get Krack!n
Genre
  • Morning show
  • Comedy
Created by
Written by
  • Kate McCartney
  • Kate McLennan
Directed byHayden Guppy
Starring
  • Kate McCartney
  • Kate McLennan
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes16
Production
Production locationsMelbourne, Victoria
Original release
Release30 August 2017 (2017-08-30) –
27 March 2019 (2019-03-27)
Related
The Katering Show

Get Krack!n is an Australian comedy series which was created by and stars comedians Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan. The series is a satire of breakfast television and features McCartney and McLennan playing versions of themselves hosting Get Krack!n, a low-budget early-morning television programme.

The series premiered on ABC TV on 30 August 2017 in Australia, with the second following on 27 March 2019. Season 1 had its international release on YouTube on 14 November 2024, with the second season following in August 2026.

Premise

Get Krack!n is a satirical comedy show that pokes fun at breakfast television shows. Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan play fictional versions of themselves hosting early-morning television show "Get Krack!n". McLennan is upbeat to the point of being irritating and unprofessional while McCartney is more realistic, but frequently tactless and socially awkward. The show is run on a shoestring budget, funded by commercial sponsors who manufacture and market questionable products. The production crew are either under-trained or employed as part of a prison work release programme, the show is constantly beset by technical problems, and the guests are unqualified "experts". McCartney and McLennan attempt to remain enthusiastic, but inadvertently reveal dysfunctional and sociopathic behaviour as things go wrong.

Cast

Main / regular

Guests

Production

The comedy series Get Krack!n is a successor to the hit web series The Katering Show, both of which were created by and star "The Kates" (Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan). It was shot at 3am Australian Eastern Standard Time, to reach the United States in the middle of the morning the day before. McLennan said that it was intended to have a "mid-morning American talk-show vibe about it", and they wrote it to be accessible to both Australian and American audiences.[1]

Both series were directed by Hayden Guppy.[2][3]

Release

Series One was broadcast at 9:30 pm each Wednesday on ABC TV in Australia, premiering on 30 August 2017.[1][4] It was scheduled to screen on the streaming comedy platform Seeso in the US, but Seeso closed before it could be aired.[1] It was also released on Apple TV.[5]

Series Two premiered on ABC TV on 6 February 2019, with the series finale airing on 27 March 2019.[2]

The first season had its international release on YouTube on 14 November 2024,[6] with the second season following in August 2026.[7]

Reception

The series was well-received by critics.[8] Craig Mathieson of The Age wrote of the first series: "The brilliant, brutal Get Krack!n is the finest satire ever put to air on Australian television... Co-creators, comedic actors and bickering hosts Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney have concocted a modern classic".[9] Luke Buckmaster, in The Guardian, gave the show 4 stars out of 5, writing "Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan walk the line between lighthearted mockery and gallows humour in eye-wateringly funny morning show satire... Get Krack!n is a show of – and for – the times... They constantly mock privilege, with a clear understanding that they're pissing from inside the tent".[10] The Guardian's Lauren Harris listed the show as one of the best shows on all streaming platforms in October 2017.[11]

Helen Razer, writing in The Saturday Paper ("Nothing this persuasively funny will soon recur"), attempts to analyse "why one particular comedy is so damn funny", and looks at how they effectively satirise "the white knowledge class" - their own class, charting its decline.[12]

Larissa Dubecki, in a review of the second series in The Sydney Morning Herald in January 2019, called the show "a deadly satire dressed in the fluff, glitter and improbable colour combinations of the pre-midday timeslot: acerbic and angry at times but sharp enough in its comedic aim to be snort-out-loud funny... It's about as funny as television gets".[13]

The second series was similarly well reviewed. Allison Whittaker wrote in The Guardian: "At last, a comedy to suit our mutual panic that does more than placate or distract!... With season two, the terms have shifted".[14]

The last episode of the second series of Get Krack!n, featuring Miranda Tapsell and Nakkiah Lui and co-written by Lui, trended on Twitter, and was widely lauded as hilarious, ground-breaking, hard-hitting satire. It drew an angry response from right-wing commentator Andrew Bolt.[15][16][17] Marie Claire called it a "must-watch for all Austrlians".[18] Allison Whittaker wrote in The Guardian: "Get Krack!n's season finale was the most nourishing despair I have felt in a long time... And in its finale, Get Krack!n showed us the grit-teeth, half-chortling nihilism of the colonised that has long governed the lives of Indigenous women like me, driven expertly by Miranda Tapsell and Nakkiah Lui, with Lui as co-writer".[14]

Episodes

SeriesEpisodesOriginally released
First releasedLast released
1830 August 2017 (2017-08-30)18 October 2017 (2017-10-18)
286 February 2019 (2019-02-06)27 March 2019 (2019-03-27)

Season 1 (2017)

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleGuest starsOriginal release dateAUS. viewers
(millions)
11"Episode 1"Sam Neill, Candy Bowers, Emily Taheny, Nazeem Hussain, Susie Youssef & Katie Robinson30 August 2017 (2017-08-30)0.616[4]
22"Episode 2"Anne Edmonds, Charlotte Nicdao, Emily Taylor, Adam Briggs, Michelle Lim Davidson, John Leary & Danielle Walker6 September 2017 (2017-09-06)0.413[19]
33"Episode 3"Adam Briggs, Madeleine Jevic, Rove McManus, Greg Larsen, Trevor Ashley & Beth Stelling13 September 2017 (2017-09-13)0.521[20]
44"Episode 4"Aunty Donna, Kat Stewart, Michelle Lim Davidson, Wes Snelling & Molly Daniels20 September 2017 (2017-09-20)0.453[21]
55"Episode 5"Jean Kittson, Adam Briggs, Bjorn Stewart, Anne Edmonds, Thomas Lorenzo & Greg Larsen27 September 2017 (2017-09-27)0.447[22]
66"Episode 6"Deborah Mailman, Charlotte Nicdao, Madeleine West, Anne Edmonds, Susan Carland & Robyn Butler4 October 2017 (2017-10-04)0.354[23]
77"Episode 7"Nakkiah Lui, Miranda Tapsell, Madison Torres-Davy, Urzila Carlson, Greg Larsen, Ming-Zhu Hii & Toby Truslove11 October 2017 (2017-10-11)0.348[24]
88"Episode 8"Christie Whelan Browne, Reg Gorman, Celia Pacquola, Katie Robinson & Paul F. Tompkins18 October 2017 (2017-10-18)0.388[25]

Season 2 (2019)

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleGuest starsOriginal release dateAUS. viewers
(millions)
91"Episode 1"Justine Clarke, Isaiah Firebrace, Anne Edmonds & Fiona O'Loughlin6 February 2019 (2019-02-06)0.261[26]
102"Episode 2"Paul Kelly, Merrick Watts, Denis Moore & Genevieve Morris13 February 2019 (2019-02-13)N/A
113"Episode 3"Adam Hills, Christie Dawes & Sisters Of Invention20 February 2019 (2019-02-20)N/A
124"Episode 4"Anne Edmonds & Judith Lucy27 February 2019 (2019-02-27)N/A
135"Episode 5"John Howard, Debra Lawrance & Darren Gilshenan6 March 2019 (2019-03-06)N/A
146"Episode 6"Matt Day, Dave Thornton & Lehmo13 March 2019 (2019-03-13)N/A
157"Episode 7"Anne Edmonds & Frank Woodley20 March 2019 (2019-03-20)N/A
168"Episode 8"Miranda Tapsell & Nakkiah Lui27 March 2019 (2019-03-27)N/A

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Knox, David (30 August 2017). "ABC comedy rises for the early, early, early show". TV Tonight. Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  2. 1 2 "Australian Television: Get Krack!n: episode guide: series 2". Australian Television Information Archive. 30 October 1998. Archived from the original on 20 May 2026. Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  3. ↑ "Australian Television: Get Krack!n: episode guide: series 1". Australian Television Information Archive. 30 October 1998. Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  4. 1 2 Knox, David (31 August 2017). "Wednesday 30 August 2017". TV Tonight. Archived from the original on 13 September 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  5. ↑ "Get Krack!n". Apple TV. 30 August 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  6. ↑ Knox, David (14 November 2024). "Get Krack!n now on YouTube". TV Tonight. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
  7. ↑ Get Krack!n: Season 2 Episode 1 on YouTube The Kates. 27 August 2026.
  8. ↑ Muirhead, Jennifer (21 October 2017). "TV Series Review". WeekendNotes. Retrieved 28 August 2026.
  9. ↑ Mathieson, Craig (18 September 2017). "Roasted alive: two comediennes ignite the bonfire of TV vanities". The Age. Archived from the original on 24 December 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2026.
  10. ↑ Buckmaster, Luke (30 August 2017). "Get Krack!n review – Katering Show Kates face-plant uproariously into milieu of breakfast TV". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 August 2026. Retrieved 28 August 2026.
  11. ↑ Harris, Lauren Carroll (8 October 2017). "From Moonlight to Rosehaven: the best of film and TV streaming in Australia in October". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 August 2026.
  12. ↑ Razer, Helen (8 September 2017). "ABC TV's 'Get Krack!n'". The Saturday Paper. Retrieved 28 August 2026.
  13. ↑ Dubecki, Larissa (30 January 2019). "Beyond the many laughs of Get Krack!n is a deadly satire of morning TV". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 30 January 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2026.
  14. 1 2 Whittaker, Alison (28 March 2019). "Get Krack!n's season finale was the most nourishing despair I have felt in a long time". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 August 2026.
  15. ↑ "Small screen highlights: THAT episode of Get Krack!n". Screenhub Australia. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  16. ↑ Bond, Nick (28 March 2019). "'Flawless fury': Viewers praise 'genius' breakfast TV take-down". News.com.au. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  17. ↑ Moran, Robert (27 March 2019). "ABC's Get Krack!n bows out with a bang in its last episode ever". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  18. ↑ "The Latest 'Get Krack!n' Is A Must-Watch For All Australians". marie claire. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2026.
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  20. ↑ Knox, David (14 September 2017). "Wednesday 13 September 2017". TV Tonight. Archived from the original on 28 September 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  21. ↑ Knox, David (21 September 2017). "Wednesday 20 September 2017". TV Tonight. Archived from the original on 1 October 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
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  24. ↑ Knox, David (12 October 2017). "Seven still caught in reno, dating crossfire". TV Tonight. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
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