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Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n Save this article for later<\/p>\n Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.<\/p>\n Got it<\/p>\n AAA<\/p>\n Deadloch (season two) \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/p>\n When Deadloch\u2019s first season<\/a> 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<\/a> and Scandi-noir that was so aggressively Aussie it threw around terms like \u201cc— punch\u201d without anyone blinking an eye.<\/p>\n Remarkably, the second season of this Emmy-nominated series has even more going on.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a shift in location, from Tasmania to the Top End, which upends the established \u201cTassie noir\u201d aesthetic. An injection of earnest backstory for the show\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a lot \u2013 especially considering this season is just six episodes, down from eight. But don\u2019t drift off if you find the beginning a bit burdensome with the required narrative set-up. The blistering finale of this big and bolshie show will prove (once again)<\/a> that co-creators Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney (The Katering Show<\/a>,Get Krack!n<\/a>) are some of the most exciting creatives working in Australian TV today.<\/p>\n Picking up from season one\u2019s coda, season two follows detectives Dulcie Collins (Kate Box) and Eddie Redcliffe (Madeleine Sami) as they investigate the death of Eddie\u2019s former partner Bushy in Darwin. Or at least that\u2019s what they head there for. The unlikely duo \u2013 plus Nina Oyama\u2019s forensic tech Abby \u2013 quickly wash up in the small fictional town of Barra Creek, trying to make sense of stray body parts, missing backpackers and two warring croc tourism companies.<\/p>\n Who are the traditional owners of that land? Chaotic tour guide Amber Darrell (Nikki Britton) doesn\u2019t offer an answer when asked, other than saying her dad\u2019s business, Don Darrell\u2019s Best Best Jumping Croc Tours, was there \u201cf—in\u2019 way before\u201d Jason Wade\u2019s Land of Crocs. With the camera also flashing past a youth detention centre in that season opener, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a coincidence that first name sounds a lot like Don Dale.<\/p>\n It would have been easy for the Kates to nestle back into the safe shores of Tasmania\u2019s Deadloch to spin another cosy and camp mystery. It\u2019s the name of the show, after all. But the Top End provides the perfect social fabric to unpick as our main characters interrogate their relationship with the justice system. And those heavy themes are offset well by the outrageous new cast of characters.<\/p>\n With Dulcie and her enthusiastic wife, Cath (Alicia Gardiner), now the fish out of water, Tassie\u2019s art and greyhound-loving lesbians are traded out for sunburnt bogans who swear just as much as Eddie and celebrate their birthdays with \u201csteak cake\u201d at the pub.<\/p>\n In an interview this week, the Kates said this could well be the final season of their show<\/a>. Though the pair won\u2019t rule out a return completely, they \u201cfeel like [they\u2019ve] done a lot with the genre\u201d and are \u201ckeen to do some other things next\u201d.<\/p>\n It would be sad to see this series \u2013 which has impressed critics<\/a> and won fans around the world<\/a> \u2013 wrap up. As implausible as it may be, wouldn\u2019t it be great watching Dulcie and Eddie run all around Australia? I would inhale a season set in Byron Bay. But if this really is the end, it\u2019s a great way to go out.<\/p>\n Deadloch is streaming on Amazon Prime Video from March 20. <\/p>\n Find out the next TV, streaming series and movies to add to your must-sees. Get The Watchlist delivered every Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n![\"Madeleine](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/d8a55fbc33efbd8ad6d06accc541049bc568153c.jpeg\")
Madeleine Sami as Eddie Redcliffe and Kate Box as Dulcie Collins in season 2 of Deadloch.Amazon Prime Video<\/p>\n![\"Comedians](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/8fd9e06f7b0fb501b8ca61eae743d7b69260c5a8.jpeg\")
Comedians Nikki Britton and Blake Pavey in season two of Deadloch.Prime Video<\/p>\n![\"Meg](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4a254cbd450833843b1a4bd3c70f0a616f89cea9.png\")
Meg Watson<\/a> is deputy TV editor at The Age and Sydney Morning HeraldConnect via X<\/a> or email<\/a>.From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 18, 2026 \u2014 9:01pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-548722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}