Items25The creator’s order
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Deadloch (2023)First aired 1 Jun 2023The first investigation lets a Tasmanian town's cliques and resentments collide with two incompatible detectives. The second season moves to the Northern Territory's Top End, giving their friction a different social and physical climate. Come for rude, very funny arguments, while remembering that…0
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Mystery Road (2018)First aired 3 Jun 2018Detective Jay Swan's missing-person investigation crosses an outback cattle station and a community with long memories. Distances and Aboriginal relationships with police shape who will speak and what can be understood. Start with this 2018 series, rather than confusing it with the earlier films or…0
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Rosehaven (2016)First aired 12 Oct 2016An estate agency gives Daniel and Emma a reason to knock on doors around a small Tasmanian town. The comedy comes from conversations that wander, neighbours who remember everything and the awkward business of returning home. A particularly good choice when you want regional life without a corpse as…0
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Total Control (2019)First aired 13 Oct 2019An Aboriginal woman's sudden recruitment into federal politics connects a Queensland community to the calculations of Canberra. Alex Irving's local obligations keep troubling the convenient national story others want her to perform. Choose it for the distance between being granted a platform and…0
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Bay of Fires (2023)First aired 16 Jul 2023A wealthy mother and her children arrive in a remote Tasmanian community that is scarcely prepared to welcome them. The dark comedy uses their disrupted expectations to expose local rivalries and secrets. Its wild turns are part of the attraction, rather than a promise of naturalistic small-town…0
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Scrublands (2023)First aired 16 Nov 2023A reporter revisits a mass shooting in a drought-struck Australian town and discovers that the accepted explanation is too comfortable. The original investigation makes a strong choice for anyone interested in who controls a community's public story. Dryness and isolation bear on the mystery rather…0
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The Survivors (2025)First aired 6 Jun 2025A return to fictional Evelyn Bay in Tasmania reopens the losses that have organised a family's life for fifteen years. The coastline is beautiful and threatening, but the sharper attraction is the town's uneven distribution of blame. This six-part Jane Harper adaptation suits a patient taste for…0
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Upright (2019)First aired 28 Nov 2019A musician and a runaway teenager haul a piano across Australia, turning the long road into an awkward partnership. Distance makes escape, reconciliation and even a simple change of plan harder. Choose it for changing roadside encounters and prickly affection rather than a catalogue of tourist…0
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Fisk (2021)First aired 17 Mar 2021Helen's suburban Melbourne probate practice generates a steady procession of relatives arguing about the dead. The office, clients and neighbouring businesses make a modest patch of the city feel inhabited. Its dry humour rewards viewers who enjoy the difference between a lawyer's professional…0
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Colin from Accounts (2022)First aired 1 Dec 2022An injured dog connects two Sydney strangers whose lives are less orderly than their first impressions suggest. The pub, homes and awkward encounters give the city a lived-in scale. Pick it for grown-up embarrassment and chemistry, with a welcome lack of interest in making every view a harbour…0