Stella gets a girlfriend on the Aussie cop drama "Rush"

I've been watching Rush since it first started. Stella's sexuality was more than hinted at in the first season - she kissed her ex girlfriend when she was dropping Stella off at work, and her bio on the website always indicated she liked women and men. However apart from the main straight couple, hardly any of the characters private lives were developed in the first season. And i might also still be dirty AfterEllen didn't cover it when I emailed in the tip a year ago :P

As for Kerry and Stella, although I love Kerry's character, I don't think there's any subtext between them. Their interaction is actually pretty limited in most episodes.

I recommend any Aussie who isn't watching it to give it a go (it's the only show I actually ever watch!) some of the episodes are available online here - http://ten.com.au/rush.htm and I think you can also buy eps from itunes.

Rush is a really good show! I've watched it since day one which is really odd as most Aussie cop shows (not to mention dramas, comedies, etc) are usually plain awful and unwatchable. Catherine McClements (Kerry) was the reason I first tuned in as in her most famous role to date she played a cop in another Aussie drama called 'Water Rats'. That was 'Action Catherine' and in Rush she's less action and more hot, dressed in boots & leather and full of angst towards the world. Not to mention her affinity to strapping guns to her thighs!

The Stella factor was just a very pleasant bonus surprise and the addition of Erica this season means a lot of girls with guns, combat boots and bullet proof vests. Love it!

well I wondered where they were going with the bisexual storyline where it appeared near the beginning of the first season. 

I was really disappointed when they had stella run off with Michael and didn't think we'd get anywhere with her. Good old Rush!!!!

And yes, Kerry = hotness

I sooo agree about everything about Catherine McClements/Kerry - I'd been feeling kinda guilty that my main interest in this show was her and not Stel! (There is plenty of fan-fic in my head, Stuntdouble!) I was also having a bit of the guilts about it as years ago CM was stalked by a woman and I seem to remember her saying some pretty unsavoury (ie bordering on homophobic) things back then, but, well, that was back then (back before the internet!!! - I actually just couldn't find ANY references to it in a quick search), and I imagine that getting stalked would make you say a few things you might not have thought through fully. So, Hooray for this news getting shared around, hooray someone else who thinks that Kerry is so, so awesome, and hooray to Channel 10 who have created a queer character with a personality that exists beyond jsut being 'the gay one', and that has not been used for promotion in any way.

I think it's a weird show though - it's so black and white with the 'bad guys' hardly ever getting to have any motivation beyond the fact that they're 'bad', and there being a bit of a message that all people under the age of thirty - unless they're cops - are likely to be out doing something illegal. But, OMG, Kerry and Stella... I'll forgive the show anything for that...

While I'm waffling among friends, did anyone else watch Secret Life, where Evan had a total crush on Catherine McClements' character? It adds a whole new subtext to their scenes in Rush ;)

I'm not into this show at all but that's good news.

The first time I ever saw Rush was when I was flicking through the channels and happened upon Stella and Michael going at it like monkeys up against some wall in the change rooms. My mum was sitting next to me. I laughed uncomfortably and left the room huffing about how disgusting TV has become.

I think I might have to start watching Rush in my room from now on because as much as I am digging this new storyline for Stella, dirty TV sex is not something I want to be watching with my mum again any time soon.   

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I have watched every aired episode of Rush. This might be because I'm a huge sucker for Australian police series. 

I must say though, that Rush is a lot like Stingers. I don't know if anyone has watched Stingers before, but personally I fin it a lot better. Christina - one of the characters is also lesbian, and that storyline gets portrayed way better than Stella's in Rush.

So, for those who haven't seen either one. They're definitely worth checking out.  

I like Rush - I kind of only watch it because Thursdays is a bit of slow night on Aussie free to air, but I still enjoy it.

Stella is hot but Kerry gives me the shits - she is the worst thing in this - the most unbelievable and the worst scripted. Everything she says is totally overblown and overdramatic. But that's just me - at least there's Stella to make up for it :D 

Catherine McClements (Kerry) and Nicole da Silva (Stella) are the best two things on Aussie TV atm!

CM has always had a bit of a cult lesbian following since her 'Water Rats' days and even though she looks pretty straight so far in Rush...I'm putting this down to confusion.  Not that I want her to hook up with Stella.....anything female would be nice. I think the tension between Stella and Kerry is more because Kerry is this strong, powertrip boss type and Stella doesn't like bein' told!

Either way I like it........:)

am I the only one the first vid is not working for? the pic freezes after only a few secs while the audio continues.... :/

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This show is completely awesome (in a "guilty pleasure" kind of way) and while it loses its way on occasion, it's been very watchable since season 1, episode 1 (if only for the eye-candy).  I too was completely stoked that Stella got some action this episode after the first season 'girlfriend breakup kiss' scene and the debacle that was the locker room frisk-turns-to-sex hook-up with Muppet Michael.

Stella's young and brash and a rule breaker and an all 'round great, if peripheral, character to root for.  You go Stell!

I too, though, am mostly in it for the glorious Catherine McClements.  She's been a dykon around these parts since her original incarnation as the butch, bustling, no-nonsense cop Rachel "Goldie" Goldstein in Water Rats. She sported a dykey-short haircut back then (eg, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGRunaNM2vE) and she's hot, looks like a cop, can act and steals just about every scene she's in.  But then I'd happily watch her read the phone book.

Loved this exchange with Lawson back at the station house:

Lawson:  But she's still a talent

Kerry:  Oh yeah, so am I

And then slightly later...

Lawson:  Let's confer, okay?

Kerry:  No way!  She's MINE!  I've just got to get out of this suit.

L-O-L! *Woot*

The way she handled the Stella situation was both firm-handed and fair.  She gave Stella the opportunity to right her wrongs but didn't give her an easy time of it.  Only way to learn, really.

Well done, Rush!  And well done Channel Ten for your non-salacious handling of the promos and advertising.  And thanks AfterEllen for recognising non-US cop drama.  I still find the immense difference between our network censorship regulators highly amusing.  Here we can swear and cuss and pash on and on with our girlfriends 'til the cows come home.  This aired at 8.30 pm!  On free-to-air TV!  Thank Lard for Oz.

One of my most favourite shows :D

It's just freaking awesome. I can't even put it into words.

What a disappointment.  That felt soooooo arbitrary... just to get Michael and Stella together.

I knew things were going to end badly when the episode opened with Stella and Alana so clearly happy together.  And when a show gets that predictable, I'm done with it.