Finally, after all these years, Australian television launches its first-ever mystery series set in a coastal town. I’m joking, I’m joking: it feels like a new addition to this genre arrives every other week. The latest, The Family Next Door, lands a month after Netflix’s The Survivors, a mystery-drama based in a Tasmanian coastal town riddled with secrets. This one stars Teresa Palmer – as did another mystery-drama earlier this year, The Last Anniversary, which was based in a tiny island community near Sydney riddled with secrets.
Palmer plays Isabelle, an “enigmatic stranger” who, to quote the official synopsis, is central to “a mystery that disrupts the seemingly harmonious beachside community of Pleasant Court” – which is, of course, riddled with secrets.
