Ah yes: the police detective who returns to their home town only to be ensnared in an investigation with shockingly personal implications. We’ve been down this road many times before, including in two recent high-quality Australian productions: the feature film The Dry and TV series Mystery Road: Origin.
In the former, Eric Bana investigates the supposed murder-suicide of an old friend and experiences a hostile reaction from the locals; in the latter, Mark Coles Smith (playing the iconic detective Jay Swan) wrestles with a case involving his estranged father – and experiences a hostile reaction from the locals.
