![]() ![]() This beguiling series heads to three houses in Northumbria: one is the first house on the planet to be lit by hydroelectricity, another a once-notorious Georgian party palace, and the third a farmstead whose engravings may or may not be valuable.Ĭreator Rian Johnson (Knives Out and Glass Onion) and star Natasha Lyonne are proving a potent team in this excellent comedic twist on the shambling Columbo-style gumshoe. Matthew Young receives some valuable counsel on the rare trees in his collection at Argyll and Bute’s Linn Botanic Gardens, Toby Buckland marvels at roses in Kent and Monty Don tries out some colourful trailing plants. It’s a nail-biting spin on a well-trodden genre. Natalie, wife of MMA fighter Stevie “Braveheart” Ray, talks about watching her partner prepare for a cage fight with a title and $1 million prize pot at stake after a career littered with injuries and near-retirements. This fictionalised eight-part account may not exactly be Boogie Nights, but there are lewdly enjoyable moments of broad comedy amid the all-round excess.Īgainst-the-odds sports documentaries are nothing unusual, but this one is told from the point of view of the spouse. There are echoes of The Dirk Diggler Story in the story of Ignacio Jorda (Martiño Rivas), an unworldly, absurdly well-endowed Spanish man who used his assets to become a porn star, renamed Nacho Vidal, in the 1990s. ![]() ![]() However, things settle a little over the first three (of eight) episodes that drop today into a more familiar odd-couple comedy. A shame, then, that the arrival of Madeleine Sami’s noisily self-possessed Darwin copper Eddie Redcliffe halfway through the first episode unbalances it all to the extent that a full series starts to resemble a bit of a trial. The narrative is intriguing, the townsfolk an engaging bunch of eccentrics and the one-liners sharp enough to subvert the clichés of a traditional procedural. Not without her own personal issues, she heads up the traditional crew of eager beavers, prejudiced bogans and overpromoted incompetents in investigating the brutal murder of a local football coach and self-styled fitness entrepreneur. It’s an encouragingly unexpected start, given extra ballast by the appearance of Kate Box’s smart, calm, Sergeant Dulcie Collins. A couple of youths, idling their way through the twilight in a small Australian coastal town, literally stumble upon a corpse on the beach a tumbling cigarette threatens to immolate an intimate part of the evidence a blast of The Runaways’ Cherry Bomb, a track synonymous with rebellion. ![]()
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