

Frankie’s art was soaring, Lou was thriving, things were looking up with Frankie’s new beau, Howard. In other words, by the time episode eight rolled around, we’d well and truly grown to love Frankie and Lou.

Only these two actors could pull off a mother-daughter discussion of William Blake’s ideas about the material world and religion without it coming across as naff. In Frankie’s attempts to balance her day job with her art, I saw a reflection of my own hopes and dreams.īy her side through it all was little Lou, always charming, never saccharine. Photograph: Southern Star Groupīy this point, Love My Way had established itself as an especially fresh and real drama series, in part thanks to the particularly lovely chemistry between single mother Frankie (played by Claudia Karvan, also a series co-creator) and her daughter, eight-year-old Lou (Alex Cook).įrankie’s life as an emerging artist never strayed into the fantasy realms a similar character might inhabit in Hollywood hers was a complex world brought to vivid life by one of Australia’s finest actors. One of the most shocking and devastating moments in Australian TV history.
