Sunday was a stay-indoors Netflix day: cold, wet and dreary. We decided to binge-watch an Australian 4-episode miniseries called Deep Water.
Australian Detective Tori Lustigman gets deeply involved in investigating the murder of a gay man near Bondi Beach. She and partner Nick Manning are led on a trail of evidence that goes back to a series of gay-bashing murders that took place in the 1980s and 90s that were never solved or pursued by the authorities.
Intricate threads of evidence and connections are revealed as the story evolves and the many loose ends keeps one wanting to watch and learn more. There is not only the mystery being solved, but also the many deeply emotional scars that the characters reveal during the investigation that make the story compelling. (not to mention some eye-candy) We had to watch it through to the end of the 4th episode to see how the many loose ends are finally resolved. Definitely recommended (but if you are anything like me when it come to other than American English), with this caveat:
USE YOUR CLOSED CAPTION OPTION because the Australian accent is very strong (especially that of Chief Inspector Peel). The closed caption made a world of difference as I was getting exhausted trying to translate Australian to English in my head and missing much of the dialogue. Did the rewind from the beginning after 10 minutes, with captions...much better.
The story is based on actual cases of a large number of murders of gay men that took place along the Australian coast in the late 80s and early 90s. *
After a whole day of cold, dreary rain on Sunday, we woke up to this, this morning:
Much too early in the season for snow and freezing temps in this neck of the desert. Hope I can save some of those tomatoes!
* Note: I have been irritable, angry, cranky, depressed and disturbed all day today (Monday) and I think it has something to do with after-effects of watching the "Deep Water" story. The fact that gay men were (and in many cases still are) bashed and murdered for being who they are, is disturbing to the core.
As Wikipedia states "The drama is based on the historical, unsolved hate murders of possibly 30 to 80 gay men in Sydney's eastern suburbs and beaches in the 1980s and '90s." A documentary was aired by Australian TV at the same time as the series.
Links to the documentary here: Part 1 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5tq9ju
Part 2 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5txh5s
I haven't watched the documentaries yet...I'm not sure I'm ready emotionally to watch.
3 comments:
Closed captioning is a godsend for foreign accents, I agree!
Summer's really over. We had rain and temps in the 40s here all week.
I'll pass on the movie. I've had too much sorrow in my own life to deal with, and even the daily news is too horrifying to read these days.
Well, if you give it a chance, it really is well done and engrossing.
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