Richard Roxburgh and Tony Martin walk a tightrope of camaraderie and menace as a corrupt policeman and a thug in this startlingly fresh 90s miniseries
with “I stopped these” on them. It has allowed a country of suburban letter-to-the-editor types to convince themselves that their innate bigotry, hatefulness and tendency towards bullying is nothing but the inevitable result of their being wild colonial boys. The “larrikin” is Australia’s boldest furphy.
Leading this pack of marauding jackals is Rogerson, played by Roxburgh as if he was gripping on to an electric fence and holding out his hand to slap you with the current. As The Dodger, Roxburgh weaves between glib murderousness and backslapping jocularity, Jaime Lannister by way of Sam Newman. He crackles with the privilege that Australia affords the tanned, blonde and empowered.
Neddy Smith becomes Rogerson’s foil, accomplice and lackey, and Martin’s mercurial performance is the heart of the story. His lackadaisical narration steers us around the frantic collision of car chases, beatings and executions. “The thing you should know about Roger is, he’s a man of his word. He’s not much of a physical person, in far as giving you an even chance,” he says drolly in their first scene together, as we watch Rogerson prepare to bash him to a dribbling heap with the YellowPages.
Blue Murder brims with a punchy pacing that would be the envy of a bare-knuckle boxer. Here, Sydney heaves and wheezes with the long necks and ciggie butts of a million sour all-nighters, a windy leviathan of nastiness and back-alley dealings.
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