He’s fun to watch in the show’s moments of action, when he dishes out justice with a slightly lumbering menace. Nearly as central to the show’s appeal is its evocation of the harsh, bleakly beautiful landscape of Western Australia. Dusty streets and fly-specked shacks give way to beaches whose striated sandstone towers make striking backdrops for car chases through the sand. That’s no surprise, given that both directors, and three of five writers of the season’s six episodes are Indigenous themselves. Season 2 begins with Swan’s arrival in the fictional town of Gideon (“Pearl of the North” on the battered sign that welcomes him there) after a crabber finds a headless body.

Source: New York Times October 11, 2020 18:45 UTC