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KATHRYN FLETT'S My TV week: Cracking crime in the Aussie alps
UK writer Kathryn Flett reviews High Country, an Aussie import full of characters-to-care-about, and Those About To Die, Amazon's new swords-and-sandals epic series.
Set in the fictional rural town of Broken Ridge (in the comically named – by European standards – Australian ‘Alps’ in the state of Victoria), BBC1’s latest Aussie import introduces us to detective Andie Whitford (Leah Purcell), partner Helen (Sara Wiseman) and daughter Kirra, who have recently moved from the city. Amazon’s new swords-and-sandals epic series, directed by movie blockbuster specialist Roland (Independence Day) Emmerich, is based on the same non-fiction book (by Daniel P Mannix) that inspired Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, yet it couldn’t be more different. Implausibly plotted, the dark, badly written adaptation of a Danish hit picks up straight after its first series: psychologist Susannah (Anne-Marie Duff) is back to work three weeks after the death of her daughter, helping a random stranger (Dominic Cooper) who knocks on her door to... quit smoking.
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