This time, creators Kate McCartney and Kate McLennon rip us out of Tasmania and drop us deep into the sweltering chaos of the Northern Territory. Darwin and the backwater chaos of Barra Creek become the new playground, and trust us, it’s a wild one. Secrets fester, egos clash, and the crocs? Yeah, they’re always circling.

Forget Tassie Noir – Deadloch is entering its Tropical Gothic era with the new season set in Australia’s sweltering Top End, aka the Northern Territory. Detectives Dulcie Collins (Kate Box) and Eddie Redcliffe (Madeleine Sami) are in Darwin to investigate the death of Eddie’s former policing partner Bushy. However, their plans are soon diverted when a body part is discovered in a remote town called Barra Creek. With the Northern Territory police force focused on a large-scale search for two missing backpackers, Dulcie and a very reluctant Eddie are tasked with identifying the John Doe.

Sticky, sweaty and juggling comprehensive thrush infections, the detectives find themselves embroiled in a world of crocodile-fuelled tourism, overstretched Indigenous rangers, cagey locals, and seven-metre prehistoric predators – all of whom call Barra Creek’s stretch of land, and water, their home. As the humidity builds, and Eddie and Dulcie dig deeper, more questions arise for our duo – not only about the case, but the many secrets that lie beneath the surface of this small town.

Dulcie & Eddie: Back on the Beat

At the heart of Deadloch is its perfectly mismatched duo: the tightly wound, by-the-book Dulcie Collins (Kate Box) and the gloriously unfiltered loose cannon Eddie Redcliffe (Madeleine Sami). Season Two wastes no time throwing them back into each other’s orbit.

Dulcie, supposedly on a peaceful getaway with her wife Cath (Alicia Gardiner), quickly finds herself knee-deep in another murder investigation when bodies start piling up in Barra Creek. Enter Eddie: loud, brash, and impossible to ignore. Their reunion is anything but smooth, but that friction? That’s where the magic lives.

What unfolds is a conspiracy-laced mystery, packed with clashing personalities, local rivalries, and a growing sense that something much bigger and far more dangerous lurks beneath the surface.

Turning Up the Heat (and the Stakes)

Season One laid the groundwork. Season Two detonates it.

McCartney and McLennon crank everything to eleven; more action, sharper comedy, and an emotional undercurrent that hits harder than expected. This isn’t just another case-of-the-week setup; it’s a far more personal story, especially for Eddie. As the narrative digs into their ties to Barra Creek, Madeleine Sami gets the space to stretch in a way that adds surprising depth to their otherwise chaotic, expletive-fuelled persona.

Meanwhile, Kate Box continues to anchor the madness with a performance that balances rigidity and vulnerability. Together, they’re electric, two completely different energies colliding in the best possible way.

A Rogue’s Gallery of Scene-Stealers

The shift to the Northern Territory opens the floodgates for a fresh batch of eccentric, scene-stealing characters.

Luke Hemsworth charges in with full alpha swagger as croc-wrangling entrepreneur Jason Wade; a man whose ego might just outsize the Outback itself. Jean Tong brings spark and persistence to journalist Leo Lee, while Nina Oyama returns as the ever-eager Abby Matsuda, still stumbling into chaos with wide-eyed enthusiasm.

Veteran presences Damien Garvey and Steve Bisley round things out as Superintendent Col Culkin and Frank McAllister, delivering just the right mix of authority and absurdity to keep things humming.

Mystery, Mayhem & Mouthfuls of Mayhem

What Deadloch continues to nail is its balance. The mystery is dense, layered, and genuinely gripping, with enough twists to keep you guessing, and second-guessing, right to the end. But it’s the comedy that hits like a sucker punch. Sami, in particular, is unleashed here. Her rapid-fire, profanity-laced tirades are a masterclass in controlled chaos—improvised, unpredictable, and laugh-out-loud funny. It’s crude, it’s chaotic, and it absolutely works.

Final Verdict: Dramatically Daring, Dangerously Funny

Season Two of Deadloch doesn’t just match its predecessor; it sharpens its teeth and goes in for a deeper bite. With a killer setting, a more personal story, and performances that crackle with energy, it’s another knockout for Aussie television. Dark, daring, and dangerously funny, this is one hell of a ride. Strap in, watch your back, and maybe stay out of the water.

Deadloch Season Two is now streaming on Prime Video.

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When a local man turns up dead on a beach, two vastly different detectives are thrown together to solve the case. Deadloch puts a high-comedy spin on the crime genre and questions Australia’s relationship with truth, gender, and race, while keeping you guessing (and laughing) at every turn.

Developed by creators Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan, Deadloch is a hilarious new murder-mystery comedy miniseries that concerns a shocking series of murders that fall upon the sleepy town of Deadloch, Tasmania, and the resulting police procedural that follows. But if you’re expecting your usual police crime thriller, well watch out, because Deadloch takes the classic police procedural genre and throws in one hell of a spanner in the form of the series co-leads Kate Box and Madeleine Sami. Forget what you think you’re expecting because this series cranks up the hi-jinks and you won’t be able to hold back your laughter as the bodies pile up, and the strangest-ever police investigation rolls out.

As the series lead, Kate Box stars as local police inspector Dulcie Collins, a former detective who has left the big city for a quieter life in Deadloch. While her normal duties include corralling drunks, maintaining marine control and seeing about the local sea lion, her world is soon turned upside down as a vicious murder occurs on the beachhead, and she’s soon facing an epidemic of bodies. Calling for resources she lands as a partner Detective Eddie Redcliffe (Madeleine Sami), an outlandishly vulgar, uncouth, loudmouthed and abrasive police detective who can’t wait to get away from the sleepy port of Deadloch and who is all too keen to find the simplest solution to the murders. Hilarity ensues at every moment, and this twisting murder mystery will have you in hysterics as the investigation gets underway.

Box and Sami make a great pair as Dulcie and Eddie, and laughs don’t let up for a minute. As the ‘straight woman’ of this odd couple pairing, Box’s Dulcie is desperately trying to do everything by the book, and minute by minute things begin to get weirder and weirder and the quiet little town of Deadloch begins to unleash its secrets. Adding to the weirdness of the series is Madeleine Sami who is an utter scene stealer as Detective Eddie Redcliffe, and whose very ‘loud’ approach to police work will have you in stitches. There’s absolutely no filter on Sami’s Eddie and the outbursts that occur lead to pure comedy gold.

Deadloch is a series that takes quite a risk with its subject matter and narrative, and it pays off in every way possible. It’s an intriguing series that will pull you in and its character-centred narrative, intriguing murder mystery and laugh-out-loud hilarity make this series a must-watch for Prime Video viewers.

Deadloch is now streaming on Prime Video.

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