TV for Thursday, July 30
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KURT FEARNLEY’S ONE PLUS ONE
★★★
9.30pm, ABC
There’s a lot of love in the empty tennis stadium when Paralympians and broadcasters Kurt Fearnley (pictured, left), and Dylan Alcott meet to talk about the latter’s versatile and stellar career. But this is no mutual appreciation fest. It’s a frank discussion about living and thriving with disability, and about the accumulative effects of discrimination and invisibility. That they both still endure such, given their profiles (which, in Alcott’s case, Fearnley describes as that of a “rock star”), might come as a shock to the abled.
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HITLER’S SUPERCARS
★★½
7.30pm, SBS
Motorsports enthusiasts should enjoy the technical aspects recounted here of Germany’s pre-war innovations in the field. Of course, there’s more to the record-breaking silver bullets that flew around the autobahn like spaceships on a runway. This ominous intertwining of sport and politics is noted by car-loving historian commentators, enriching the archival footage of glorious wins by a doomed national hero.
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LAW & ORDER: SVU
★★½
8.30pm, Ten
If any veteran US cop show is immune to the shark-jumping syndrome, Dick Wolf’s reliable procedural has surely been it, until now. This storyline puts that status in doubt. The rage of a stripper assaulted in her workplace is understandable, and her revenge strategy is original and innovative. But the final scene elicits great sympathy for Mariska Hargitay and her two core castmates, so embarrassingly corny is the script and the visual.