WTFAQ on ABC review: funny, factoids, fair enough

Trying to entertain while educating is an ABC mainstay, and this new show is no exception.

At this stage it’s debatable whether the internet has done more harm than good. One thing it most definitely has done has made it a whole lot easier to answer questions.

Before the internet, finding out about things was a pain: maybe you had an encyclopedia at home, maybe you had to go to the local library and hope they had some books on the subject – or even a clipping file, where they’d have collected recent newspaper articles on important topics because most of the books they had were years old and out of date. But now, the internet! And also, it seems, WTFAQ.

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Anthony Morris is a freelance film and television writer. He’s been a regular contributor to The Big Issue, Empire Magazine, Junkee, Broadsheet, The Wheeler Centre and Forte Magazine, where he’s currently the film editor. Other publications he’s contributed to include Vice, The Vine, Kill Your Darlings (where he was their online film columnist), The Lifted Brow, Urban Walkabout and Spook Magazine. He’s the co-author of hit romantic comedy novel The Hot Guy, and he’s also written some short stories he’d rather you didn’t mention. You can follow him on Twitter @morrbeat and read some of his reviews on the blog It’s Better in the Dark.