Get HIGH

You know when you're excited about a show coming out on DVD?

When you keep humming the theme song all day long at work.

Check out Summer Heights High, out on DVD tomorrow. Get it for $25 at deepdiscount.com or for $20 at bestbuy.com (or presumably at the stores for the same price).

This Australian import by way of HBO is brilliantly acted and written-- and it's painful to watch in a (U.K.) The Office kind of way.

This 8-episode series justified my subscribing to HBO this year. For real.

Here's a trailer for the show:


Writer/star Chris Lilley plays three characters in this mockumentary.
The transformation he made for each is astounding.


First up is vain, delusional Mr. G:



Now meet troubled Jonah:



And the most amazing transformation. This is Ja'ime: