I mean, that’s it, really. It’s on Amazon Prime streaming. It’s great. Truly great. OKAY BYE.
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You’re still here, ugh, okay, fine, look — it’s a very serious murder-mystery show set in Tasmania. It’s also hilarious. It’s not exactly a comedy, but also, it’s a comedy. It plays itself straight as a noirish sort of serial killery mystery thing, but at the same time, it’s also truly, truly funny. You get the serious music cues, the ponderous camera drifts over placid water, but then you also get like, the absolutely absurd characters and attitudes and situations born of a quirky small Australian town. It’s like if Broadchurch had a baby with Gilmore Girls, but Letterkenny was the surrogate? I dunno. It’s great. It’s political and surreal and funny and crude and a genuinely sharp mystery.
Go watch it. I’ll wait here.
(And thank you to Kevin Hearne for telling me to watch it in the first place.)
Aimee K says:
It’s so good! I finished the final ep yesterday, and I hope they end up doing a second season. The balance between comedy and drama is fantastic.
September 15, 2023 — 8:45 AM
Lancelot Schaubert says:
Sometimes, when it’s late and the house is quiet and my bride’s in the other room preparing for bed, I will shout into that silence, “BRRRRADCHEERCH.”
Can’t do David Tennant’s brogue, but when no one’s paying attention at midnight I try anyways. I try.
What a wonderful, horrible, wonderful show.
September 15, 2023 — 8:54 AM
Elle says:
I watched it on your rec over the last couple of weeks and you’re right! Loved it! It took a couple of episodes to adjust to its quirkiness and then I was hooked 🙂
September 15, 2023 — 8:57 AM
Elizabeth Black says:
Thanks for the recommend, sounds great. Will check it out (as if I need another reason to become addicted to another series and go through withdrawals and be sad when it ends, thanks for that).
September 15, 2023 — 9:01 AM
Steve says:
I just binged the whole series in the two minutes since I saw your post!!!!
Oh, okay, I saw it a few months ago, and you are correct! Excellent program!
September 15, 2023 — 9:48 AM
Diane Walton says:
We watched it a few months ago. Loved it!
September 15, 2023 — 10:16 AM
Bob G says:
I finished it last night after your six word recommendation from a previous blog post. I wouldn’t have found it if it wasn’t for your quick shout out, so thank you. It was fantastic. I really hope they make another season.
Please continue your Wendig Watch series! I appreciate your insight into shows, plus it casts a light on things we can easily miss because there’s a million channels with a million shows now.
September 15, 2023 — 10:21 AM
susan1859 says:
Thank you! I watched Deadloch months ago and it was awesome- I can only hope they have a second season.
September 15, 2023 — 11:55 AM
Venessa Giunta says:
Ha! Hubby and I just started watching it earlier this week. We’re a couple eps in and we’ve both come to the conclusion that “this is really weird.” Annnnd… we’re still watching. LOL
September 15, 2023 — 12:58 PM
Shirley says:
I saw that after Janis Ian mentioned it on Facebook! (my feed is intensely currated; I yeeted blood relatives with their misinformation bullshit, I don’t care who’s pissed)
ANYWAY. Excellent show! I still treasure the phrase “climate refugees”.
September 15, 2023 — 3:29 PM
Evan says:
In a similar, excellent vein, check out Annika on PBS
September 15, 2023 — 4:28 PM
SteveR says:
Thanks for the tip, just watched the first two episodes. Being a miserable git I don’t normally laugh out loud at things on the Devil’s Picturebook but this managed to raise more than one chuckle.
September 15, 2023 — 4:48 PM
Betsy Dornbusch says:
It’s awesome. So, so very good.
September 15, 2023 — 5:01 PM
Melissa Behrend says:
AH! Just saw this post. Deadloch was the greatest show we found this year. Loved, loved everything about it (especially the fact that nearly the entire Rosehaven cast shows up. Another fantastic show if you’ve never seen it…).
September 15, 2023 — 7:18 PM
Amanda says:
Such a good show. I’m calling the genre “shandy noir”.
September 15, 2023 — 9:21 PM
Kim Ward says:
Oh hell yes! You are not joking! The most fun romp I’ve ever had through a dark murder mystery with lesbians and humor. I meant to take this in sips – let it be something I could watch during this long (and most righteous) Hollywood strike, but I binged it in two days! I want Mooooorrreeee! I knew there was a reason I liked you – you know, beyond your own amazing master mind for storytelling and humor. 😉
September 16, 2023 — 8:02 AM