A grab bag of genre elements but it’s never badly staged – and I’m curious to see how it ends
here’s murder, mystery and a stink-load of genre elements in High Country, a potboiler-ish crime series given a glossy cinematic varnish and a rock-solid lead performance from Leah Purcell. She plays detective Andie Whitford, a city cop who has been relocated to the town of Brokenridge in the titular Victorian region, where the magisterial beauty of mountains, valleys, rivers and creeks has been tainted somewhat by the proliferation of dead bodies and disappearances.
There are some scenes and some characters, however, that I wanted more time with. In the second episode, for instance, when Whitford meets an Aboriginal woman who inspires her to connect to country; she’s played by the always-great Trisha Morton-Thomas, who’s criminally underused in Australian film and television and only very briefly appears here.
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