eating ice cream with your eyes closed

Series Overview

eating ice cream with your eyes closed is a darkly funny, emotionally charged, and structurally daring series that unfolds in real time across a single chaotic night in the fictional regional Australian town of Mayoonderie; a world held together by plastic containers, broken dreams, and brutal honesty.
 

Tone

Raw. Hilarious. Poetic. Painfully real. A collision of Deadloch, Mystery Road, and Reckless in a paddock full of bin juice, karaoke, and emotional baggage.

 

Visual & Cinematic Style

Natural light, fluorescent realism, and soft handheld. Static shots contrast with frenetic movement.

Low-fi live stream footage woven into sequences. Hyper-local: a servo forecourt becomes a theatre.

 

The Structure
Each episode unfolds in real time, following one continuous half-hour of events from late evening to dawn.
 

Themes

Masculinity, mentorship, racism and cycles of violence. Queerness, shame, and reclamation.

Comedy as resistance. Disability, trauma, and DIY healing.

Family as harm and salvation. Community-as-theatre. A town performing itself to survive.
 

Structural Arc

The series follows a rising spiral of entanglement.
 

Episodes  1–3
Introductions and collisions. A train dumps Macca. Dayne robs the servo. Doug arrives sweaty and unhinged. Martin’s estimation becomes a domestic hostage situation. Women throw spoken-word grenades at the pub.
 

Episodes 4–6
The groupings shift. Bonds form (Macca/Dayne, Martin/Sharday, Cherry/Valda). The past intrudes: shrine rituals, milk myths, junkie-death re-enactments. Doug burns the pampas.
 

Episodes 7–9
The night frays. Live streams explode. A woman’s waters break and fills Tupperware containers. Dayne is pushed to fight. Doug believes he’s vanilla. Martin is reborn through estimation trauma. The servo becomes a stage.
 

Episode 10
Day breaks. The child is born (#Servobaby). Some things are forgiven, others aren’t. Mayoonderie remains.​