The moments in Strife season two that actually happened in real life.

Strife — the TV series based on Mia Freedman's memoir Work, Strife, Balance and loosely inspired by the story of Mamamia — is back for season two.

Season two, which premiered on Binge this week, continues the story of Evelyn Jones (played by Asher Keddie), and tracks her journey from lounge-room blogger to becoming a leading force in women's media. In this new season, the stakes are higher for Evelyn and her team than ever before. Her business is growing, they are attempting to break into podcasting, and a slew of new online titles, also aimed at women, are trying to steal their audience.

In Evelyn's personal life, things have also taken a slightly dramatic turn. Her teenage children are at a crossroads in their own lives (with some dating drama thrown into the mix), her separation from her husband sees her living part-time with her mother, and her best friend is having problems in her own marriage.

Just as some storylines and characters from the first season were loosely inspired by real people and real events, season two contains a few scenes that are also pulled from real life.

(You can read our full breakdown of what was real and what was not in Strife season one here.)

Here are four moments from Strife season two that actually happened in real life, just to help you separate fact from fiction.

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1. A giant inflatable boob really was tossed around during pitch meetings.

In season two of Strife, the Eve team has moved from a tiny shared table in a minuscule office space to a sexy warehouse-style building with natural light, wooden floorboards, and some questionable tech bros working from the corner.

During one of the early episodes, we see the Eve team throwing a giant inflatable boob at each other during a pitch meeting, with whoever is clutching the air-filled breast free to share their story idea of the day.

This scene is hooked on how the morning pitch meetings would really run back in the early days of Mamamia, except in reality, they were often a little more high-stakes and intense. As the editorial team grew bigger, time only allowed around half the writers to pitch their ideas in this format, and the boob decided who spoke and who didn't.

You could always tell who wasn't ready to pitch their stories in the morning, based on who was staring intently at their shoes and praying that the large inflatable breast (complete with nipple) didn't suddenly come flying in their direction.

2. The meeting rooms at Eve (and Mamamia) were all named after influential women.

During season two of Strife, the Eve employees flit about their new office. They're writing stories, trying their hand at podcasting and battling online trolls, and you'll often hear the characters mention the names of their meeting rooms, all of which are named after influential women.

Every time you hear Evelyn or one of her employees say 'I'll meet you in Malala', they're referring to their main meeting room, which was named after activist and the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Malala Yousafzai. It's also exactly how the meeting rooms were named in the real Mamamia offices at one point.

Strife is based on Mia Freedman's memoir Work, Strife, Balance, and loosely inspired by the story of Mamamia. Image: Binge

3. A writer overshares about their relationship online, then has some regret.

Season two features a storyline hooked on one of Eve's writers, Opal (played by Bebe Bettencourt), who is game to dive into any story or rogue pitch, even when it's hooked on her own life and relationships.

While this storyline is not inspired by just one particular person, it is loosely hooked on the early days of digital media, where writers for many online platforms, including Mamamia, would revel in sharing every intimate detail of their lives online, much to the delight of their readers, who felt like they knew them and took comfort in their words.

Yet in some cases, as we see with Opal, it could have a bit of a negative flow-on effect into the writer's real lives, which is the inspiration behind this storyline.

4. Eve flips the script on International Women's Day with their coverage.

There's a tiny moment in Strife season two where Evelyn Jones is a guest on a morning TV show, and a series of headlines from Eve flash across the screen behind her, all from articles that ran on International Women's Day.

The articles have flipped the way women and men are talked about in the press, and this scene is based on what really happened at Mamamia in 2021 to honour International Women's Day.

Headlines such as The clock is ticking! Leonardo DiCaprio unlucky in love and desperate for a baby, really ran on the Mamamia website and social platforms that day as a funny and clever way to flip the narrative.

Season two of Strife is now streaming on Binge.

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