Bump is a sharply funny and fast-paced relationship drama which explores the unplanned and life-changing consequences of the impulsive moments in life.
Set and filmed in inner Sydney, the Stan Original Series stars Claudia Karvan and Angus Sampson, along with a diverse cast of fresh and exciting talent including, Nathalie Morris, Carlos Sanson Jnr, Catalina Palma, Safia Arain, Paula Garcia, Ioane Saula, Peter Thurnwald and Ricardo Scheihing Vasquez.
Season 1 Synopsis
Olympia (‘Oly’) Chalmers is an overachieving Year 11 student who knows exactly where she’s going. Her boyfriend, doctor’s son Lachie, ticks all the right boxes; she shares with her best friend, Reema, an ambitious 10 year plan: top marks in the HSC, international relations at university, work for the UN, save the world.
Her mother Angie is the head of English at her inner city highschool; and her father Dom is a slightly past-it mid-level executive who’s been spending nights on his moored boat lately. Angie and Dom are lost in their own mid-life reckoning; their once happy marriage has drifted to the edge of divorce.
At school Oly collapses in agony. She’s sped to hospital in an ambulance, accompanied by Angie, and they are both shocked – horrified! - to discover that Oly is in labour. She gives birth in the racing ambulance, just as it screeches to a halt in the hospital carpark. In deep shock, Oly rejects the baby entirely. We learn by end ep1 that her boyfriend is not the baby’s father; and it’s actually the son of Angie’s hard-core work crush: the school’s handsome, Chilean soccer coach Matias.
It’s a contemporary story that is fast-paced, feminist and edgy, with quick funny dialogue and raw, even brutal emotional honesty. No sugar coating: actual birth and motherhood is not what you see in the ads, with the shock of new motherhood doubly dramatized here by Oly, a teenager who didn’t know she was pregnant.
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Season 2 Synopsis
When it comes to special brands of chaos, the Chalmers-Davis and Hernandez families are the gifts that keep on giving, and while Oly and Santi continue to get to know each other, they discover just how much families can mess you up…
Just as Oly felt the full force of sudden motherhood and keeps grappling with this new version of her life, Santi’s unexpected fatherhood catches up with him, bringing back memories of losing his mum, and forcing him to understand the impact it’s still having on him, and his dad.
The fallout of Angie and Matias’ relationship is spearheaded by Rosa, who travels the full gamut of emotions across the season as she tries to decide if she should stay or go. Matias is inspired to try harder with his marriage, but where does that leave Angie…?
Angie and Dom try to get used to this world of post-separation. Oly’s brother Bowie returns home, bringing a new energy that helps Dom get his business mojo back. Through their new living arrangement and with time to reflect on their relationships, Angie and Dom find a new way to connect.
As Reema, Vince, Madison and Zac navigate their own experiences at school and home, Oly and Santi feel how alienating being a young parent can be.
With the expectations of what life was supposed to be still freshly turned upside down, Oly and Santi have to make some big decisions as they try to work out how to keep themselves together and build a family of their own.
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Season 3 Synopsis
It’s a new dawn for Oly and Santi. Jacinda is almost five and starting kindy. But the grind of early parenthood has taken its toll: Oly and Santi have broken up, and Santi’s got a new girlfriend who should only be a rebound but appears much more solid. Santi’s still in construction, his art dreams left far behind; and Oly’s studying at uni, but her long-held career goals seem as distant as ever.
Reema’s living her glamorous London life, so after Santi drops a bombshell, Oly’s only distraction is partying with Madison, which would be great, if she wasn’t so terrible at it. Now Jay is getting into trouble at school and coupled with a new uni love interest for Oly, their civil co-parenting arrangement starts coming apart at the seams.
A barely recognisable Angie, living with Bowie back in the family home, has recovered from cancer and is fed up with her self-absorbed family, including Dom who is still upset after he and Angie broke up again when she got cancer. Dom’s sister Edith forms a connection with Angie that makes her rethink everything – including giving up on love.
Vince is preoccupied with his chaotic flatmates Talia and Ariel who ask him to be their donor for a longed-for baby – not realising how it will fundamentally alter his life, let alone how Reema will react when she returns… Is the male midwife cut out to be a daddy?
Rosa has reshaped and expanded the family business, leaving food trucks behind and building her own mini-empire; but navigating her teenage sons is a nightmare. The bright spot is her hot secret romance with Hector which she’s working hard to keep as far away as possible from her family.
A health scare for Bernardita forces our characters to reassess how isolated they are. Through the season, the wounds of the interim years inform present day drama, and our beloved characters must find their way back to themselves, and each other.
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Season 4 Synopsis
In Bump S4 we’ve jumped forward in time again – this time by two years. Oly and Santi are back together, having finally stabilised their small family unit with their challenging seven-year-old Jacinda. Angie has moved out of the Chalmers-Davis house into a protest camp, focusing on environmental activism and the climate crisis in part as a useful distraction from her recent heartbreak, putting her at loggerheads once more with Rosa, whose growing restaurant empire seems far from sustainable.
Vince, who’s living with Oly and Santi and working hard as a midwife, has found his stride with Talia and Ariel and toddler Malik too, although the involvement of Reema as sort-of-step-mum complicates things a little – especially since she has no interest in having kids herself. The unexpected return of Reema’s long-distance dad Hazem from the UK is a big curveball for Reema and has implications for her relationship with Vince, and with her mum. Dom is happily re-living his share-house years with his best mate Tim, while Reema and Vince begin to reckon with the fact that their relationship may not have a viable future. Rosa and Hector are challenged by life with her impossible teenage boys, and a somewhat lost Bowie is struggling through his Saturn return and big questions about the direction his life should take.
The perennial battle between Oly’s big ambitions and her family obligations comes to a sharp point with her first proper job, which finds her on a steep learning curve with her demanding boss Shauna, the local mayor, who expects Oly to be permanently available, in part because Oly hasn’t been completely honest about her home life. Meanwhile Santi struggles to progress his art career and to redefine his masculinity as Jacinda’s primary carer at home, no longer the breadwinner. The way Oly and Santi deal with tensions between them over this new phase of their lives, exacerbated by interventions from his dad Matias and both her parents, could make or break them. As the chaos of life shows no signs of settling down, our characters look for ways to find joy in life’s many curveballs.
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Season 5 Synopsis
In Bump S5 we find the Chalmers-Davis family facing the realities of Angie’s diagnosis; a hard blow that coincides with what should be the joy of Oly’s second pregnancy. Angie faces an arduous treatment program for her cancer with Edith by her side; while Oly’s fresh unemployment threatens to stretch out to something more troubling and permanent if she can’t get her mojo back.
Santi is trying to step into the breach, but Jacinda’s acting out, feeling the adults are leaving her out of things, and she’s causing problems for her parents. Dom and Tim finally take steps to make their record shop dream a reality, but baggage from Tim’s past threatens to derail their happily ever after. Vince is trying to make his new relationship with Van work, even as she challenges his boundaries; and he’s trying to forget Reema, who’s becoming more entangled with Rakim. With Hector’s support Rosa’s business is going from strength to strength, while her life is kept challenging by her teenage sons and their messy love lives. Bowie’s long search leads him to find the true purpose of his life.
A peek into the future hints where our favourite characters will go; while Bernardita prepares for the arrival of her long-awaited new great-grandchild. Bittersweet, funny, sad and life-affirming, Bump’s final season has all the feels.
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