The Emmy-winning comedy series reminds Jason of a childhood nightmare. By Jason Hahn Updated 07 Jan 2021 10:40 I went to school in Australia with a kid called Jonathan Langley. He was an awful human being. You know how in every school, there’s always someone who makes life miserable for everyone around him? The one whose teachers can barely control; the principal is constantly on the phone summoning the parents to a meeting; and all his classmates live in daily fear that he’ll pick on them? Jonno was that kid. (This is what Australians do to names. First, however long that name is, they shorten it to one syllable. Then they drop whatever consonant is at the end, and replace it with an ‘o’, ‘a’ or a ‘z’, or a combination of those three letters. So, if your name was, say, Paddington, you became Paddo. Or if your name was Sharon, you became ‘Shazz’ or ‘Shazza’. It’s meant to be a sign of endearment. It just always felt like a lot of extra work to me.)