9/9/2023 0 Comments Marta dusseldorp body![]() ![]() Watch for Hungry Ghosts lead Catherine Van-Davies giving a masterclass in exasperated eye rolls in the background.Īlso in the mix are Damien Strouthos’ reluctant (and soon hopelessly implicated in disastrous malpractice) construction boss Alexei. We’re also vaguely aware that fellow Juror Corrie (Pallavi Sharda), who has inherited an expansive mansion she clearly wants shot of ASAP, is also struggling with a traumatic secret she shows little sign of buckling under while shutting down the mansplaining of boofhead businessman Simon (Nicholas Cassim). Read: Nude Tuesday review: left-of-field comedy magic, but not enough nudity That’s exacerbated by a startling sequence in which Jamie locks her in their en suite bathroom overnight, suggesting Georgina is presenting a thin veneer of calm while trying to keep it together in the face of abusive coercive control. There’s an unbearable aura of menace hovering over this peek into her private life. This requires pleading with her three young kids to cover up the fact she has to rope a mate into handling the school pick-up. Technically a backup juror, she nevertheless has to be present for the duration of the trial but chooses to initially conceal this fact from her partner Jamie (Hamish Michael). Like an episode of Twin Peaks, each of them is harbouring a dark secret of their own, with the opening episodes focusing on Mr Inbetween star Brooke Satchwell’s Georgina. The writing room – including Leah Purcell, Anchuli Felicia King, Tommy Murphy, Sarah Walker, Brad Winters and Greg Waters – instead focus on the jurors who must deliberate on the case and come to a unanimous verdict on Kate’s possible crime. Read: Troppo review: prickly and solid TV ![]() It’s not really about Claire and her distressed family, including her surly father (Matt Nable) and distraught mother, his ex-wife and Kate’s sister (Jenni Baird). With echoes of the moral furore over Bill Henson’s oeuvre, it’s a stonking premise, not least because it allows today’s bone-cynical, true crime-obsessed audiences to harbour the vague suspicion that Claire may still be alive – an angle that Kate’s defence lawyer Brett Colby (always sterling screen presence Sam Neill) is keen to hammer home to the jury.īecause, as the name of the show suggests, while this is, at face value, a courtroom drama, it’s not really about Kate, as wild and welcome as Mulvaney’s Joker-like lipstick-stained meltdown in the lockup is. Frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer autoplay clipboard-write encrypted-media gyroscope picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen> ![]()
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