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But where Mystery Road thrives on the desolate beauty of Australia’s forgotten corners, Total Control finds its energy in the friction that naturally exists between the Indigenous communities that Mailman, as first-term Senator Alex Irving, sets out to fight for, and the faceless Canberra political machine that Griffiths, as the scheming Prime Minister Rachel Anderson, does her best to paint a convincing shade of neo-feminist. But where the true-to-life stories of The Casketeers have disappeared off our screens, an equally tasteful but totally fictional take on the same subject has popped up over on AMC+: Good Grief, a two-hander workplace comedy written by and starring Eve and Grace Palmer as Ellie and Gwen, two very different sisters who inherit their grandfather’s small-town funeral home and have to learn to work together to both fix their lives and honor the community he served. Created and written by brothers Harry and Jack Williams ( The Missing), the BBC series’ first season finds star Jamie Dornan stranded and disconnected in the middle of Australia after a freak accident knocks him cold and leaves him with a hard case of amnesia — and no ID in his pocket to even give a hint at his name.
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