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'Rachel Griffiths plays a detective obsessed with catching an armed robber who murdered one of her junior officers, her new trainee (Yoson An) blames her for the death of his best friend. The story surrounds a share-house of international students, a pair of corrupt shop owners, a grieving widow and a gunman, who all collide, leaving one dead and another missing.'
Source: TV Tonight (http://tvtonight.com.au/2017/08/rachel-griffiths-leads-new-sbs-drama-dead-lucky.html). (Sighted: 21/08/2017)
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Crime Drama Dead Lucky’s Attempt at Depicting Multi-cultural Sydney Underwhelms
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 25 July 2018;
— Review of Dead Lucky 2018 series - publisher film/TV'A good friend and I would often binge episodes of Rizzoli and Isles on our days off. It’s an incredibly straightforward police procedural that would feature a murder investigation each episode. Once the murder occurred, we would have a competition by predicting who killed the victim and why. The clues were often obvious and the twists so heavily foreshadowed that this wasn’t a hard task, even when the crimes were delightfully ridiculous. (And a full disclosure, my housemate would win on a regular basis).' (Introduction)
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Dead Lucky Review – Rachel Griffiths Brings Poise to Convoluted, Soapy Cop Drama
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 25 July 2018;
— Review of Dead Lucky 2018 series - publisher film/TV'SBS miniseries can’t quite transcend its garish tabloid narrative but is a welcome break from crime TV’s blue gloom.' (Introduction)
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Dead Lucky Review – Rachel Griffiths Brings Poise to Convoluted, Soapy Cop Drama
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 25 July 2018;
— Review of Dead Lucky 2018 series - publisher film/TV'SBS miniseries can’t quite transcend its garish tabloid narrative but is a welcome break from crime TV’s blue gloom.' (Introduction)
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Crime Drama Dead Lucky’s Attempt at Depicting Multi-cultural Sydney Underwhelms
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 25 July 2018;
— Review of Dead Lucky 2018 series - publisher film/TV'A good friend and I would often binge episodes of Rizzoli and Isles on our days off. It’s an incredibly straightforward police procedural that would feature a murder investigation each episode. Once the murder occurred, we would have a competition by predicting who killed the victim and why. The clues were often obvious and the twists so heavily foreshadowed that this wasn’t a hard task, even when the crimes were delightfully ridiculous. (And a full disclosure, my housemate would win on a regular basis).' (Introduction)
