Perhaps the ever-reliable Dusseldorp is simply too good at conjuring depth and nuance the show might’ve benefited from a more flippant anchoring performance.īay of Fires premieres on the ABC on Sunday 16 July at 8. Nobody said combining genres was easy, as the drama and “dark humour” of Bay of Fires remind us. In the genre of Tasmanian-set jiggery-pokery there’s recently also been Deadloch from Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney, which manages to be both funny ha ha and a compelling murder mystery. But that show popped and crackled as a comedy before drawing an unexpectedly strong dramatic element in the friendship between the protagonist (Colin Donnell) and a young delinquent (Tegan Stimson). Please share this video and go to to find out more. Netflix’s underrated recent series Irreverent similarly relocated a city protagonist to a sleepy Aussie town populated by peculiar locals (which is also the setup of classic films such as Wake in Fright and Welcome to Woop Woop). Marta Dusseldorp, Actor, speaks out about children in immigration detention. This sort of happens, in a mild way, but by this point the die has been cast and it’s clear nobody is bringing their A game. As of 2023 Dusseldorp is an ambassador for Save the Children Australia, in which role she has visited remote Aboriginal settlements in the Northern Territory. In the third episode (this review encompasses the first four), Yael Stone’s public servant Robin arrives to investigate some financial matters, her presence theoretically disrupting the status quo and creating some sparks. Stephen Curry as flaky and eccentric real estate agent Francis. Ditto for André de Vanny’s local cop and, in fact, most of the side characters. Stephen Curry plays the town real estate agent Francis he’s flaky and a bit eccentric, but not entertainingly so. Rachel House (who recently played Principal Woodsy in the Heartbreak High remake) is often a delight to watch, but here she too is too lost between drama and comedy to register serious impact either way. But the ones they come up with are bland and brought to life with performances that feel clipped, at times borderline deflated. The big twist involving the town, not to be disclosed here, gives the writers a pass card to deploy all kinds of kooky characters. Set in the wilds of Tasmania, Marta will play lead character Stella Heikkinen whose fall. The show is funny weird (not funny ha ha), in that the citizens of Mystery Bay are a little strange. MARTA DUSSELDORP to produce and star in new ABC drama BAY OF FIRES. More recently ABC pegged it as a “darkly comedic crime thriller”. I started to wonder if I was going crazy: is this show supposed to be comedy? And it’s just really bad at it? Bay of Fires’ co-production company, Fremantle Australia, describes it as a “crime-thriller” that’s “shocking and dark”, but co-producers at Archipelago Productions say that it is “laced with dark humour”.
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