Category: Directed by Ken Cameron
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Last season, “Miss Fisher’s” went out of its way not to have detective Essie Davis happen into mysteries solely because she’s a rich White lady in the 1920s. Though… I mean, it sort of did. But this episode makes no attempt to contrive a reason to get Davis involved in the Julia Blake’s mystery. Davis…
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If this episode of “Miss Fisher’s” doesn’t have the highest body, it definitely feels like it has the highest. People get killed off throughout the runtime—and before it, actually, in flashback. The episode opens with a séance, which is automatically awesome just thinking about Essie Davis going off about séances. It’s almost a surprise she’s…
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Poorly written drama about single mom (Noni Hazlehurst) working in the Melbourne music scene. She falls for heroin-addicted actor Colin Friels, which causes all sorts of problems because Hazlehurst is a mom after all. Alice Garner (daughter of source novel author Helen Garner) is the kid; she probably gives the best performance in the film.…
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