Following the season 2 release of this crime-comedy hybrid on Friday, March 20, this 6-part series is expected to make waves on Prime Video’s worldwide streaming charts this weekend. It will have to compete with another top-rated Prime Video series, Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat, which also scored a rare perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score after its 3-part premiere on Friday.
Deadloch Is Prime Video’s Best New Show For A Weekend Binge
Deadloch season 2 is Prime Video’s best new series to binge from start to finish this weekend. It has a total runtime of 4 hours and 49 minutes, making it ideal for a weekend-length binge. The series was reduced from an 8-part first season to a 6-part second season, making it better suited for a one-night or two-night binge this weekend.
Deadloch is celebrated, as evidenced by its perfect RT score, because of its fun and effective blend of crime thriller and satirical comedy. The series pokes fun at acclaimed and serious murder mystery series like Broadchurch, featuring an underlying “spoof” element similar to Netflix’s whodunnit comedy series Murderville or Peacock’s star-studded series Poker Face.
Deadloch is led by the buddy cop duo of Dulcie Collins (Kate Box) and Eddie Redcliffe (Madeleine Sami), two local police detectives with opposite personalities and approaches who investigate a murder. The series takes place in a small fictional town of Deadloch, Tasmania, where a man is found dead on a beach just before an annual festival is set to begin. Season 1 follows this mystery, while season 2 takes aim at another possible murder in Australia’s “Top End” region.
Deadloch was created by Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney, who together are considered two of the best working Australian writers in the TV business. Deadloch season 1 won five Australian Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay, Casting, and Acting in a TV Comedy. It’s a sleeper hit in the United States, but it is so consistently good that it deserves more attention, especially now that season 2 is available to binge on Prime Video this weekend.
Early reviews for Deadloch season 2 suggest that the sophomore season of the acclaimed series is right on par with the breakout success of the original. The AU Review writes, “Even when it threatens to sprawl, Deadloch remains one of the most distinctive and exciting series on Australian television.” So far, only four reviews have been published on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing, but all of them have received “Fresh” ratings, which could mean Deadloch is on pace to receive back-to-back 100% RT scores.
Deadloch Combines Crime Thriller Suspense With Hilarious Satire
Deadloch’s bread and butter is its winning approach to blending crime thriller suspense with hilarious satire comedy. It employs a precise use of both genres to keep its story engaging and tense, with characters who are hilarious and relatable. Dulcie and Eddie aren’t ultra serious all the time, which allows for humor to slip in and release the tension, while most leading TV police detectives are often cool, focused, and even grave (as seen in Bosch, True Detective, etc.).
With its potential to have back-to-back perfect Rotten Tomatoes scores, a proven crime-comedy formula that has earned it acclaim and popularity, and its shortened 6-part episode length making it better suited to binge in one night or weekend, there is truly no better new series worth watching from start to finish right now on Amazon Prime Video than Deadloch.