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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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