Australian drama series Bay of Fires, filmed entirely in Tasmania and co-produced by and starring Marta Dusseldorp, started last night on TVNZ1. It airs at around 11pm Sundays, but the entire season can be binged on TVNZ+. A second season is in development.
Anika Van Cleef (Marta Dusseldorp), the Queen of her family’s business empire is the last person who ever wanted to live in a remote community in the wilds of western Tasmania but multiple attempts on her life suggest a change of address may be advisable. In a nightmare blur a stranger who claims to be on her side, provides her with a new name she hates (Stella Heikkinen), a house of sorts and she and her two kids are whipped off to Mystery Bay — a town so remote it eludes any mention on GPS. The town is not the kind of place they put on postcards. There are no street side tapas bars, urban murals, or floral clocks, only the isolation of and often frightening beauty of this primordial wilderness. The newly named Heikkinens are to find Mystery Bay unlike anything life has prepared them for – a place where locals hide more secrets than they do, and outsiders are viewed with suspicion bordering on the murderous.
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