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Eli starts the day with a turbulent driving lesson from Slim. School bullies confront Eli with a challenge, but a teacher catches them in the act.
Jan 11, 2024 · At lunch, Eli is taken into a room by two bullies who hand him a giant rat wrapped tightly with tape. He is instructed to hold it over the bin and one of the kids chops the tail off the rat, before it escapes. The deputy principal comes in and finds Eli there alone, holding the tail, as he didn't run quick enough.
- “Boy Smells Rat” “Boy Smells Rat” is largely an introduction, but to several things — the characters, the stakes, and some faintly fantastical elements to be extrapolated on later.
- “Boy Gets Chop” “Boy Gets Chop” catches up to the cold open of the premiere, leaving things on a major cliffhanger. Before that, we meet a couple of intriguing new characters and get to enjoy the family dynamic before it all goes wrong.
- “Run Boy Run” “Run Boy Run” is a slightly slower-paced installment with fewer key developments. It unfurls mostly in the long specter of the previous episode’s brutal cliffhanger, with Lyle missing (presumed dead), Frankie in prison, having invented some cockamamie story to protect the kids, and Eli and Gus having been housed with their alcoholic biological father, Robert.
- “Boy Loses Dad” The boys are still living with Robert, who remains a drunk idiot. However, “Boy Loses Dad” does give us some insight into Gus’s mildly supernatural abilities.
Jan 11, 2024 · Boy Smells Rat. Episode 1 of Boy Swallows Universe, titled “Boy Smells Rat,” kicks off with a group of assailants barging inside Eli’s house and kidnapping his stepfather, Lyle, demanding something that Lyle has stashed away somewhere. What follows next establishes the event that led to this mishap.
Author Trent Dalton takes us behind the scenes for a look at the process of bringing his best-selling book Boy Swallows Universe to life.
- 5 min
- 71.7K
- Netflix
2024 | Maturity Rating: TV-MA | 1 Season | Drama A young boy growing up in the suburbs of 1980s Brisbane faces the harsh realities of life — and the looming dangers that threaten his family. Starring: Travis Fimmel, Phoebe Tonkin, Simon Baker
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Episode 1 Aired Jan 11, 2024 Boy Smells Rat Eli starts the day with a turbulent driving lesson from Slim; school bullies confront Eli with a challenge, but a teacher catches them in the act.
