Instead, the Kates (who wrote the script with Kim Wilson, Christian White, Anchuli Felicia King, Kirsty Fisher and Madeleine Sami) unleash the thunderously loud detective Eddie Redcliffe (Sami, who also appeared in The Breaker Upperers). We await the kind of hotshot detective pop culture has conditioned us to expect –perhaps a straight-talkin’, hard-bitten man who doesn’t “do” niceties but gets the damn job done. As Dulcie, Box delivers an excellently restrained and measured performance, impressive on its own terms but additionally important in its provision of a violent, comedic contrast to the “cowboy from Darwin” being flown down to help on the case. Enter senior sergeant Dulcie Collins (Kate Box), whose job policing the titular Tassie town typically involves low stakes, including monitoring the antics of a local seal named Kevin. We open with the discovery of a dead body on a beach and a dick joke, when one of the two young women (Kartanya Maynard and Leonie Whyman) who find the corpse accidentally drops a lit ciggie on his pubic hair. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning They are moving into the next phase of their career, with Deadloch, a narratively richer series that’s dark and dramatic, and often also very funny. This ripsnorting whodunnit was created by Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan, AKA “the Kates”, best-known for their short-form series The Katering Show and the breakfast TV satire Get Krack!n.
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