Past injustices are often known to rear up their ugly head at the most inopportune times and drive people to remember things that they have tried hard to forget. Mystery Road TV series on ABC Australia follows detective Jay Swan as he is assigned to solve a disappearance of an indebtedness kid on the gigantic cattle ranch. The new drama is a spin-off of critically acclaimed movie of the same name.
Mystery Road TV Series Cast
O’Brien, McGregor, Bedford, and Lee write this entertaining and intense mystery directed by Rachel Perkins. The six episode series premiers on 3rd June 2018 and takes you to Western Australia on a road full of twists and turns where everyone has a past and a secret.
Mystery Road (2018)
Directed By: Rachel Perkins
Cast: Aaron Pedersen, Judy Davis, Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair, Anthony Hayes, Ernie Dingo, John Waters
Network: ABC Australia, iView
Air Date: June 3 2018, 8.30 PM
Mystery Road TV Series Plot
Mystery Road TV Series begins when there is a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station, Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) is assigned to investigate. Working with local cop Emma James (Judy Davis) , Jay’s investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.
Jay – always a loner – now has to work with smart, tough local cop Emma James (Judy Davis) . Born to a wealthy pastoral family and proud of her pioneering history, Emma’s life is embedded in the town. But Emma has her own secrets – bound up in the history of the town. Jay is also saddled by the arrival of his daughter Crystal (Madeleine Madden) , who’s run away from her own trouble at home, and his wife Mary (Tasma Walton) – who comes after her daughter but really wants to save her marriage.
As Jay and Emma investigate the case, they unpeel the layers of the town revealing deep secrets, a previous crime and a major miscarriage of justice perpetrated a hundred years earlier.
Mystery Road TV Series Review
Set in the arid western Australia on a cattle ranch, Mystery Road TV series is a visual delight. The series doesn’t waste any time and straight away kicks of with an abandoned truck in the middle of nowhere with the engine running and the driver gone missing.
Aaron Pederson and Judie Davis make an interesting contrast as the investigators, each with a past. Judie’s connection to the ranch and the main suspect, Marley’d connection to a past crime in the town, and the local political undertones, along with the history with the indigenous people of the town make a complex backdrop for the series.
The series begins with two back-to-back episodes and although a bit slow in comparison to modern, formulaic TV shows, Mystery Road sucks you in with its lazy pace and intoxicating life of the small town.
Mystery Road TV Series Trailer
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Mystery Road TV Series Episodes
Can’t wait to find out what’s happening in the upcoming episodes Mystery Road TV series? Take a peek inside with our guide.
Episode 1
When there is a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station, Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate. Working with local cop Emma James, Jay’s investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.
Episode 2
Two unannounced visitors in town cause chaos for Jay (Aaron Pedersen) and Emma (Judy Davis) as they try to uncover what happened to the two missing young men.
Episode 3
Georgia is convinced Shevorne is involved in Reese’s disappearance – but then the heartbreaking truth comes out. Videos are discovered showing the location of Reese and Marley’s (Aaron McGrath) secret drug stash – at Two Mile. Shevorne admits Reese had a plan and intended to trade the drugs. She thinks she knows where Marley might be …
Episode 4
With questions hanging over Marley’s return and the whereabouts of Reese, Emma brings him in for a formal interview. Nothing Marley says adds up with what Jay can see on the ground, and he is visibly shocked when they tell him that Reese is not his real name. A visit to Shevorne confirms that Marley arrived in town a few days ago and Shevorne has been hiding him. But as long as Shevorne denies everything, he’s got no proof. Arrested but refusing to speak, everything points to Marley’s guilt.
Episode 5
Convinced Marley is not responsible for Reese’s murder, Jay is in a race against time to find the evidence to back up his case before the boy ends up in prison for a crime he did not commit. Emma begins to investigate the history of their family’s property. She uncovers another crime committed at Black Springs long before the murder of Reese; a crime which still reverberates in Patterson; a crime that changes her understanding of who she is and threatens to destroy her relationship with her brother.
Episode 6
Having outrun their attackers, Jay holes up with Marley in an outback shed and Marley finally tells Jay everything – what happened that fateful night and the last time he saw Reese. Emma is in for another shock – as Shevorne reveals that Larry is innocent and tells them who really raped her 10 years earlier. Jay and Emma have to work together to solve the crime and save both Marley and the person this has been about all along – Shevorne.
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