Season 2 of Deadloch just got wilder—all set to hurl you into the sunburnt, croc-infested chaos—with locals biting and even the crocodiles are getting murdered. The detectives Kate Box (Dulcie Collins) and Madeleine Sami (Eddie Redcliffe) are back, trading their grey drizzle for Darwin’s oppressive heat—land up on a new case with each being all absurd and horrifying.
The season opener comes with ‘Croc Justice,’ —Bushy here is dead, following the locals’ shrugging it off as suicide, but then a dead crocodile floats by with a human arm in its mouth—because in Deadloch, bodies never stay buried (or in one piece) for long. Sure, this is a black comedy, but few comedies have the nerve to toss a severed head into the first episode and then make it the punchline to a joke about Swedish backpackers. However, here suspect number one turns out to be Eddie’s long-lost dad.
The show only leans harder into the surreal with “None Of Your Business,” in which Eddie’s pet crocodile may or may not be dead (identity theft: not just for humans anymore), and the local forensic team is so under-resourced they probably have to borrow their autopsy knives from the nearest pub. The cause of death? “Unknown.” Typically leaves your mood a bit unhinged.
By the time we hit “The Boys” and “Ladies Day Night Day Night,” the suspects are multiplying rapidly, and every family secret is just getting messier with every level up. There are chainsaws, poisoned cake, and enough police incompetence to make you double-check your own local constabulary’s credentials.
It’s all mayhem here, and you just get a hint of the wildlife that’s there in Australia. Watch it on Amazon Prime Video. The season is produced by Guesswork Television, OK Great Productions, and Amazon MGM Studios, created and primarily written by Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan.
