Saturday, February 8, 2020

Mystery Road: Series One 2018

     Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of two young farm hands on an outback cattle station.  One of the boys is a local and the other a backpacker.  Police Sergeant Emma James works with Jay on the investigation and they uncover a past injustice that threatens the structure of the whole community. 
     This series is a six part spin-off from Ivan Sen’s feature films Master Road 2013 and Goldstone 2016.  There is a LOT going on in this film!!  Judy Davis has been in films from 1977 to 2015.  She has been in television productions from 1980 and her latest is an upcoming series titled Ratched of 2020.  I’ve seen her in My Brilliant Career 1979 and A Passage to India 1984.  In this series, she is very thin and always in her police uniform.  She has red straight short hair and this doesn’t do her any justice or help her with not looking old?  

     The scenery of Australia is very beautiful and also very vast and desolate in some places!!  The makeup of their culture is about 91% white or multiracial people, mostly white and part white.  There is 5% East Asian, 2% Indian 2% Aboriginal.  There are approximately 123,000 full or partial Spanish descent.  A large number of minorities put white in addition to their other race.  There are three states/territories.  Population of South Australia 1,717,000, Tasmania 519,100, Australian Capital Territory 406,400.

57 min each episode, directed by Rachel Perkins, produced by David Jowsey, Greer Simpkin with Aaron Pedersen, Judy Davis, Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair, Colin Friels, Anthony Hayes, Tasia Zalar, Madeleine Madden, Aaron L. McGrath, Rohan Mirchandaney, Meyne Wyatt.


Note:  Imdb 7.6 out of 10 with 1,542 views, 6 episodes, Rotten Tomatoes 100% with 15 critics 78% with 13 ratings, The Guardian 4* out of 5* Larissa Behrendt, Metacritic 72 out of 100 with 4 critics (3 positive, 1 mixed), Amazon 4.3* out of 5* with 129 ratings, dailyreview.com 4* out of 5* Luke Buckmaster, acorn online 4 1/2* out of 5*, Letterboxd 3* Mark Cunliffe.


Special Note:  Filmed in Kununurra, Western Australia.  Judy Davis and Colin Friels play a sister and brother but they are actually a married couple since 1984 and they have two children.  The first season was dedicated to Jessica Falkholt in the role of Genevieve Leclaire.  Her family died in a car accident and later Jessica also died on January 17, 2018 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 

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