How to watch Faraway Downs online
Faraway Downs is exclusive to Hulu in the US, with all six instalments ready to stream now. Elsewhere viewers can stream Baz Luhrmann’s new miniseries on Disney Plus, on the platform’s Star hub.
Faraway Downs preview
Baz Luhrmann’s Australia was a worldwide hit at the box-office, although it didn’t make a huge impression in the US. Faraway Downs, then, is Luhrmann’s attempt to remedy this: providing an expanded story broken up into six parts about a widowed British aristocrat (Nicole Kidman), a rugged cattle drover (Hugh Jackman), and a young Aboriginal boy called Nullah (Brandon Walters).
Australia was something of a throwback to the old-fashioned epics of yesteryear. Anchored by two megawatt Hollywood stars, full of spectacle and depicting three people caught up in the incessant march of world history, including the bombing of Darwin during World War II, it’s got all the melodrama of Gone With the Wind, but told, Luhrmann says, “from this First Nations child’s point of view”.
Packing in an hour of additional footage, Faraway Downs delivers even more romance and spectacle than Australia’s 2 hour 45-minute-long movie. That means more of Kidman’s character, the widowed and rather prim Lady Sarah Ashwell, swooning over the strapping, salt-of-the earth drover played by Jackman, who helps to restore the fortunes of her dead husband's ramshackle cattle station, the titular Faraway Downs. The series will also deepen the film’s indigenous perspectives, including the history of the “Stolen Generations” in which bi-racial Aboriginal children were forcibly taken from their families.
Get ready to be wowed – six times over – by director Luhrmann’s cinematic new miniseries. Read on below for our guide on how to watch Faraway Downs online from anywhere in the world.
How to watch Faraway Downs on Hulu in the US
How to watch Faraway Downs from anywhere else in the world
Faraway Downs episode guide
- Episode 1 – “‘Chapter One: The Land”: Stream now
- Episode 2 – “Chapter Two: Secrets”: Stream now
- Episode 3 – “Chapter Three: Adventure”: Stream now
- Episode 4 – “Chapter Four: Romance”: Stream now
- Episode 5 – “Chapter Five: Betrayal”: Stream now
- Episode 6 – “Chapter Six: War”: Stream now
Faraway Downs trailer
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Faraway Downs is just the latest in a string of highly-anticipated releases exclusive to the platform, including Loki season 2, Secret Invasion, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ms. Marvel and American Born Chinese. Plus, there's plenty more on the way, such as X-Men-97 and What If…? season 2 both set to arrive in the coming weeks and months.
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It's available in the UK, most of Europe, and other select markets like Australia and New Zealand - but not in the US, where the media giant's Hulu service already has very similar ground covered.
