“When one particularly perplexing Aussie made quite the spectacle of herself on the Olympic stage, Netflix was not going to miss a beat, even though she certainly did,” writes streaming columnist NICK OVERALL. 

If there’s a bizarre real-life story playing out, best believe Netflix is watching like a hawk ready to churn out a documentary. 

So common have these become that any event with a modicum of intrigue now comes with thousands of social media comments observing that it’s only a matter of time before the streaming gets a hold of it.

So, of course, when one particularly perplexing Aussie made quite the spectacle of herself on the Olympic stage, Netflix was not going to miss a beat, even though she certainly did. 

Enter Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly, a feature-length documentary film that tells the bizarre story of Rachael Gunn and her absurd breakdancing performance that took the world by storm.

In August 2025 Gunn made international headlines when she put on a performance so outrageous one could mistake it for something out of a Chris Lilley show.

Her peculiar moves may have scored her a 0 from the judges but, boy, were the numbers on social media quite the opposite.

Raygun went viral around the world, leaving millions of people puzzled on how she even qualified for the Olympic breakdancing event.

Back home, some Aussies called her a national embarrassment, others an icon.

So how did she actually end up in the world’s most prestigious sporting event and what was she thinking with her strange routine?

The new doco explores it all and Raygun herself features in an extensive interview.

While it hasn’t been publicly revealed how Netflix lured her to the program, it doesn’t take a wild imagination to guess.

Is Raygun a dorky Aussie legend who should forever be cemented in Olympic history? Or is this performance better left forgotten? Maybe the doco will help have the final say.

Kudos to whoever came up with the name Breaking Badly.

APPLE TV continues to hit it out of the park with its selection of high-budget sci-fi series and this month they’re keeping it coming with the second season of Dark Matter.

Aussie actor Joel Edgerton stars in this one as Jason Dessen, a physics professor and seemingly ordinary family man living in Chicago.

Ordinary until his life is hijacked.

One night while walking home from work a masked stranger pulls alongside Jason in a dark SUV, forcing him by gunpoint into the car and taking him to a warehouse on the edge of town.

Does he want money? Intelligence? A powerful hostage? None of the above.

This stranger instead asks Jason to step into a box with strange and intricate technology.

It turns out he’s no opportunistic crook, but actually another version of Jason from a parallel universe.

This “other” Jason has kidnapped himself in an attempt to swap both of their lives. 

In the new reality the original Jason finds himself in, he never married his wife and settled down into family life, instead he became a pioneering scientist.

It turns out that may have been a grave mistake. 

Now Jason has to use his smarts to try and find his way back into his own reality and in order to do it he must work out how to use the mysterious “box” that acts as a gateway into millions of different realities split apart by every person’s choices.

If these are “sliding doors” moments, think of “the box” as the ultimate train station between them all.

Even attempting to condense the premise into words may be a bit wearing on the noggin, let alone watching it. 

It’s this mind-bending premise that gives audiences plenty to chew on and the intrigue has continued well into its second season.

Shows such as Dark Matter, Silo and, especially, Severance show that Apple is consistently willing to push the boundaries when it comes to story concepts, trusting the audience’s intelligence.

Often studios can fear that very high-concept shows like these may frighten off viewers whose attention they want to capture.

Dark Matter is another bright example of how reality is very much the opposite. 

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