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Deadloch season two review – every bit as wonky, devilish and potty-mouthed as the first
The Emmy-nominated crime comedy swaps chilly Tasmania for the sticky Top End – and all its croc-related misadventures
There’s no doubt which principal character reflects the heart, soul and warped humour of Deadloch, the darkly comedic and wigged-out police procedural created and written by Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan. It’s certainly not Kate Box’s senior sergeant Dulcie Collins: a generally calm and considered detective who doesn’t rush to judgment. It’s her partner Eddie Redcliffe (Madeleine Sami), a thunderously loud, incongruous, decorum-breaking force of nature who doesn’t so much speak as screech, howl and bluster, as if trying to strangle the air itself, particle by particle.
‘Let’s throw everything at it’: Why Deadloch’s second season may be its last
The Kates wanted to get season 2 of their smash-hit crime-comedy just right – because they’re not sure there will be a season 3.
Long before season one aired, the Kates – creators, writers and spirit guides Kate McCartney (the tall one) and Kate McLennan (“the one with the teeth”, as her Instagram profile has it) – knew that if they got to make a second season of their genre-bending comedy crime procedural Deadloch it would be set in the Top End rather than Tasmania.
“When we were writing the season one pilot we had scenes in the Northern Territory, where we met Eddie [Madeleine Sami’s detective Eddie Redcliffe] before Eddie came to Deadloch,” explains McLennan.
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Deadloch was already the most ambitious show on Australian TV. Its new season is even wilder
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When Deadloch’s first season dropped in 2023, it was already the most ambitious show on Australian television. A wild odd-couple comedy, incisive social satire and genuinely compelling whodunit thriller that also ruthlessly mocked the genre itself. It was a feminist satire of self-serious prestige crime shows and Scandi-noir that was so aggressively Aussie it threw around terms like “c— punch” without anyone blinking an eye.
Remarkably, the second season of this Emmy-nominated series has even more going on.
There’s a shift in location, from Tasmania to the Top End, which upends the established “Tassie noir” aesthetic. An injection of earnest backstory for the show’s most absurd screwball character. A deepened focus on racial politics. And a series of mysteries that involve not just outlandish locals (including a vile Steve Irwin-style crocodile celebrity hilariously played by Luke Hemsworth), but law enforcement itself.
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