When Deadloch’s first season dropped in 2023, it was already the most ambitious show on Australian television. A wild odd-couple comedy, incisive social satire and genuinely compelling whodunit thriller that also ruthlessly mocked the genre itself. It was a feminist satire of self-serious prestige crime shows and Scandi-noir that was so aggressively Aussie it threw around terms like “c--- punch” without anyone blinking an eye.