An Irish couple go missing in New Zealand, and a Dublin detective flies in to investigate – but why? As we meet the local Māori community, this crime drama becomes almost a mood piece
If you can forgive the ponderous opening episode and its slightly by-numbers feel, there is much to enjoy in the new six-part police drama The Gone.
Why does New Zealand need Dublin? Because half the missing couple is Sinead Martin , the daughter of Hannah Martin , the judge who recently put away the head of an Irish drug operation run by the Fallon family, who are not the type to let that kind of thing go unpunished. Hannah survived a recent revenge attack – so maybe they have moved on to her family.
There is also, as you might possibly already suspect, given the setting and the genre, a new business in town – a giant recycling-cum-fertiliser plant, led by a non-native CEO, who wants to acquire surrounding sacred land amid growing protests from the Māori community. These are led by older, stalwart members – Wiki and Buster Huia , Diana’s uncle and aunt. They raised her as a child but are now virtually estranged.
Once the opening episode has put all the pieces in play, the plot thickens and becomes intriguing, if not propulsive.
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