Strife (TV series)

Strife is set around year 2012 and follows Evelyn (Keddie), who is running Eve, a new women's web site. Her personal life is beset by problems; she has abandoned her marriage and marital home, but is struggling to pay the rent on her city apartment. Meanwhile, she navigates co-parenting teenage children with her estranged husband, Jon (Day).

Her fortunes and those of the nascent website change when she writes a confessional column, "I ended my marriage over a flat white" that goes viral.^[1]

• Asher Keddie as Evelyn Jones
• Matt Day as Jon Jones
• Tina Bursill as Ginny
• Emma Lung as Lucy
• Olivia Junkeer as Jeet
• Bebe Bettencourt as Opal
• Jonathan LaPaglia as Peter
• Alex Dimitriades as Daniel
• Lincoln Younes as Giles
• Maria Angelico as Christine
• Rhys Mitchell as Paul
• Bryony Skillington as Penny
• Darcy Tadich as Alex
• Willow Speers as Addy
• Megan Hollier as Leila

All eight episodes of the first season of the series were added to Binge in Australia on 6 December 2023.^[5] All eight episodes of the first season of the series were added to ThreeNow in New Zealand on 18 February 2024.^[6]

The second series was released on 8 May 2025.^[7]

The show broke streaming records for Binge, with the streamer announcing that it had unseated Colin From Accounts in becoming its most successful launch for first day and first week viewing.^[3]

Debi Enker from The Sydney Morning Herald praised the series: "Vibrant and richly textured, Strife is keenly in tune with its times even though it's set a decade ago. And Keddie has again fashioned a messy, multi-faceted character who can be as irritating as she is compelling."^[8]

Michelle Arrow from The Conversation criticised the series: "Despite claiming to be a "feminist publisher", Evelyn shoots down most politically and socially aware story ideas because they won't "get clicks"." "Perhaps if Evelyn was more willing to confront her own shortcomings we'd have the making of real drama."^[1]