The high-concept premise of this rollicking Aussie drama from creators Ben Davies and Timothy Lee is “Succession in the outback”. Or for those partial to cowboy hats and Kevin Costner: “Yellowstone, in Australia”.Director Greg McLean (Wolf Creek) brings power jostling and fraught family dynamics to the Top End in Territory, the majesty of the landscape perhaps suggesting that all the human conflict bubbling away on the surface makes a teeny imprint in the ancient scheme of things.Not that it doesn’t resonate: the stakes feel intensely personal and high at Marianne Station, the world’s (fictitious) largest cattle station. Its future is thrown into doubt when heir apparent Daniel (Jake Ryan) is killed off in a way rarely seen on screens – by dingo! Daniel is attacked by a group of ravenous canines in a scene that reminded me of a moment from Joe Carnahan’s great film The Grey, when Liam Neeson straps broken glass to his fists and prepares to bash a bunch of…
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