There’s murder, mystery and a stink-load of genre elements in High Country, a potboiler-ish crime series given a glossy cinematic varnish and a rock-solid lead performance from Leah Purcell. She plays detective Andie Whitford, a city cop who has been relocated to the town of Brokenridge in the titular Victorian region, where the magisterial beauty of mountains, valleys, rivers and creeks has been tainted somewhat by the proliferation of dead bodies and disappearances.
Co-created by Marcia Gardner and John Ridley, and co-directed by Kevin Carlin and Beck Cole, the show arrives hot on the heels of the feature film Force of Nature: The Dry 2, which is also (mostly) based in wet-looking Victorian wilderness, also involves a missing person’s case, and also deploys a clever detective from the big smoke.
