What is Last Seen about?<\/p>\n Adapted from crime writer Ryan David Jahn\u2019s award-winning 2011 novel The Dispatcher<\/a>, Last Seen<\/a> relocates the action to Australia, with Patrick Brammall playing a police officer whose life completely falls apart after his young daughter Maggie vanishes without a trace.<\/p>\n 11 years later, he\u2019s manning a desk as an emergency dispatcher when he gets a call from a young woman that he is convinced is the missing Maggie. Galvanised to action, he sets about tracking down the anonymous woman, determined to reunite his shattered family.<\/p>\n Jahn was originally inspired by the all-too-real kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard<\/a>, although Last Seen<\/a> is a work of fiction. Still, it\u2019s likely to be a pretty grim work of fiction, based on the Wikipedia article. Click that link at your peril.<\/p>\n The cast of Last Seen<\/p>\n Patrick Brammall is Ian Ridley; Maxine Peake is Jenna Reid; Brendan Cowell is Henry Reid; Daniel Henshall is Donald Reid; Zahra Newman is Isabel Pena; and Felix Cameron is Tommy Brenton.<\/p>\n Plus, Bert La Bont\u00e9 is Bill McCracken; Fletcher Humphrys is Peter Mulligan; Carolyn Bock is Lydia; Taylor Ferguson is Polly Foster; Hasini Walpola is Shyla; James Saunders is Ben Sizemore; Oscar Redding is Jack Brenton; and Emma Choy is Imogen Smith.<\/p>\n Last Seen trailer<\/p>\n Why we\u2019re excited about Last Seen<\/p>\n Australia has a long and storied tradition of unbearably grim crime fiction \u2013 we\u2019ve just got a weird knack for it.<\/p>\n For all that Last Seen<\/a> has its origins in the United States (the novel is set in Texas). It looks like it\u2019s going to sit nicely on the shelf alongside The Boys<\/a>, Snowtown<\/a>, and other gritty slices of Antipodean alienation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Brammall\u2019s devastated cop seizes on a glimmer of hope years after his daughter was kidnapped in this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-878194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878194","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=878194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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