And though there are plans for a second season, the first actually ends - with climax and closure. It is a helluva landscape, and if the plot twists become a bit torturous at times, the ghosts, be they actual spirits caught between worlds or imprints made on traumatized minds, are real enough. (Witchcraft being the Tasmanian version of Wawa.)Ĭreator Vicki Madden is not afraid to lean heavily on the landscape of Tasmania, just as she did with “The Kettering Incident,” which she also wrote. “The Gloaming” is also haunted by an old crime against a child and, even better, there appear to be actual ghosts involved, which may or may not have something to do with the island’s violent penal colony past and/or the Wiccan-like church that runs the local school and community center. Alex O’Connell (Ewen Leslie) has been brought in to help solve a murder, which, as in “Mare of Easttown,” involves the body of a woman found in woodland water. Like Winslet’s Mare, Emma Booth’s Molly McGee is frequently at odds with her boss and has a bumpy relationship with her ex, not to mention custody issues and the irritation of being forced to work with a male detective from outside town (in this case, Hobart). ![]() ![]() Not only can I say in complete sincerity that this is my new favorite Tasmanian show ever (a title previously held by “The Kettering Incident”), but “The Gloaming” checks all the “Mare” boxes - prickly female detective, highly unsettling murder, eerily evocative landscape, fabulous accents - and adds one more: a just-right hint of the supernatural. This show, which aired what we can only hope is its first season finale on Sunday, is not getting nearly enough attention.
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