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.
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.
Series One was broadcast at 9:30 pm each Wednesday on ABC TV in Australia, premiering on 30 August 2017. It was scheduled to screen on the streaming comedy platform Seeso in the US, but Seeso closed before it could be aired. It was also released on Apple TV.
Series Two premiered on ABC TV on 6 February 2019, with the series finale airing on 27 March 2019.
The first season had its international release on YouTube on 14 November 2024, with the second season following in August 2026.
Reception
The series was well-received by critics. 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". 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". The Guardian's Lauren Harris listed the show as one of the best shows on all streaming platforms in October 2017.
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.
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".
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".
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. Marie Claire called it a "must-watch for all Austrlians". 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".
Episodes
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