Deadloch

TV-MA

9 episodes2 seasons

US Release

Overview:

Two vastly different female detectives are thrown together to solve the murder of a local man in the sleepy seaside hamlet of Deadloch.

Created by:

Kate McLennan & Kate McCartney

Status:

Returning Series

Language:

English

First air date:

6/1/2023

Last air date:

7/6/2023

Key words:

detective
murder
aggressive
cruel
embarrassed

Seasons

Season 1

8 Episodes

Season 2

1 Episodes

Cast

Kate Box

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Dulcie Collins

Madeleine Sami

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Eddie Redcliffe

Nina Oyama

~ as ~

Abbie Matsuda

Alicia Gardiner

~ as ~

Cath York

Brian Coll

~ as ~

Tom Ballard

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Sven Alderman

Pamela Rabe

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Margaret Carruthers

Holly Austin

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Skye O'Dwyer

Kris McQuade

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Victoria O'Dwyer

Duncan Fellows

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Ray McLintock

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Reviews (1)

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Written 3 month(s) ago
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If it weren’t for caricaturizing men, there wouldn’t be a show. Deadloch builds its comedy on reducing nearly every male character to a stereotype—buffoonish, sexist, or simply incompetent. That choice doesn’t just limit the humor, it flattens the entire narrative. A satire can be sharp without being one-note, but here the punchline is always the same, and the story suffers for it. The homosexual empowerment trope is overplayed.

The imbalance is hard to ignore. If the roles were reversed and women were written with the same broad ridicule, the backlash would be immediate and fierce. Yet in this case it’s packaged as bold "social commentary". The result is less a compelling mystery and more a predictable exercise in mockery—smug where it should be clever, shallow where it should be biting.