How do you get a creature feature broadcast on ABC TV, which has an average viewer age of approximately 105? You smuggle it into a show about an outback detective! I’m being slightly facetious, although this is actually the style in which the first episode of the entertaining and moreish tropical Queensland-set crime drama Troppo begins: with a perturbed-looking bloke dressed in undies getting munched on by a crocodile.
A group of sightseers are on a boat steered by a tour guide with a flair for the theatrical, talking up the foul stench of a croc’s breath and how human bodies make it “reek of death.” Then the aforementioned man summons the reptile’s attention and swims towards it – making this an apparent “suicide by crocodile”.
