Deadloch 1.01

The naked body of Trent Latham, coach of a local rugby club, is found on Deadloch Beach in Tasmania. Senior Sergeant Dulcie Collins is forced to take the case until Detective Eddie Redcliffe arrives from Darwin to investigate. Collins wants to hand over the case but when she sees the sort of job Redcliffe is doing she talks to her boss and gets her temporary assignment to the case made permanent.

It takes some work but by the end of the episode Eddie finally seems to understand that the case isn't as simple as she wants to believe it is, The pieces finally fall into place for Eddie when she and Dulcie find the body of Gavin Latham, Trent's brother and the one she wanted to arrest for Trent's murder, dead on the beach and without a tongue, just like Trent.

Thoughts

I watched this episode because I wanted to watch something on Amazon Prime. This is show is a Prime exclusive and after reading about it I thought it was worth trying. I enjoyed this episode very much but I have to admit that even with the subtitles turned on the accents and the vocabulary were a little too much for me at times. I'm sure that there are bits and pieces that I missed.

This show has a very light touch considering that a good part of it is about investigating a murder. I couldn't help but think of the parallels with Broadchurch, which was way too serious and heavy handed for me to watch beyond the first season. In researching this series after I watched this episode I discovered that it is referred to by some as Funny Broadchurch.

My research turned up some spoilers about how the season ends but I enjoyed this episode enough that I think I will continue to watch it anyway.