Mystery Road (2018)

Directed by

Warwick Thornton, Wayne Blair

Genre

drama, crime fiction

Country

Australia

Length

2 seasons, 12 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 58 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Aboriginal Australian detective travels to remote towns in Western Australia to investigate murders. He works with local police officers while navigating personal and cultural tensions.

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What happens

Mystery Road is an Australian television crime mystery series whose first series screened on ABC TV from 3 June 2018. The series is a spin-off from Ivan Sen's feature films Mystery Road and Goldstone. Aboriginal Australian detective Jay Swan, played by Aaron Pedersen, is the main character and actor in both the films and in the first two TV series, each of six episodes. Mystery Road: Origin, in which Mark Coles Smith plays a younger version of Swan, is a prequel series, which aired from 3 July 2022. Season 1 was directed by Rachel Perkins. Swan is brought in to solve a murder, with the local police officer played by Judy Davis. In Season 2, directed by Warwick Thornton and Wayne Blair, which began airing on the ABC on 19 April 2020, Swan is brought in to solve a murder in a different location, with the "local copper" this time played by Jada Alberts. Both series were shot in northern Western Australia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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