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‘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.
“Everything is that bit more extreme, including the weather”: Behind the scenes on Deadloch season two
There must have been a lot of bemused looks on the faces of the grey nomads who rolled into the tiny historic town of Batchelor on the outskirts of Litchfield National Park in late 2024.
Originally known as Rum Jungle, the town, situated 98km out of Darwin, has had a chequered history to say the least. It’s been an air base, a “demonstration farm”, and has the dubious honour of being Australia’s first uranium mining town.
These days it’s pretty empty — a 2016 census had the town’s population sitting at just 507 people — though plenty of travellers still pass through on their way to Litchfield.
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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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