Jack Irish: Bad Debts
by Andrew Knight; dir. Jeffrey Walker (ABC, 2012)
A telemovie crime drama steeped in the seedier aspects of Australian city life (lent verisimilitude by accents and cultural quirks). Guy Pearce is competent but understated in the lead role. Two of the world’s great Colins—Hay and Friels—play bad guys.
Rake, Series 1
by Peter Duncan and Andrew Knight (ABC, 2010)
Australia’s take on quirky legal drama. Richard Roxburgh stars as Cleaver Greene, a defence barrister whose success in court is matched only by the cataclysmic failure of his personal life. Greene proves eloquently soused as he both embraces and rails against misfortune.