Return to Paradise

thanks mate, off to watch! :smiley:

Thoroughly enjoyed it. Got a few good laughs. 8.5/10

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Just finished it. Loved it. Want more. Now.

Didn’t love the first few minutes, but it got infinitely better from the Taxi scene onwards. The main lead is excellent, great casting. Enjoying it so far

Speaking of the main lead, that was my main worry.

She played Mia in Home and Away for a year in 2021-2022 and was horrible. Very few people liked her character and she was ultimately written off.

She was really good in this show. Just goes to show certain roles suit people better.

Or that Home and Away has terrible writers. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

You can write the best storyline ever but that doesn’t mean an actor can pull it off.

Episode 4

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Sunday 29 September 7.30pm

When a radical eco-activist is murdered, Mackenzie and her team must figure out how the victim was killed when the suspects were chained together, unable to reach the victim.

While staging a logging protest, charismatic activist Byron Jones (Harry Greenwood) is found dead, chained to a group of protestors around an excavator in a remote logging coupe. His brother Henry (Hugo Johnstone Burt), husband Ken (Arka Das) and rusted-on greenie Maggie (Deborah Kennedy) are also firmly chained to Byron, out of each other’s eyesight – and they saw no one kill Byron.

All signs point to an intruder arriving under the cover of darkness, but the security footage doesn’t capture anyone entering. Including prime suspect Fiona Kolios (Maia Thomas), the Operations Manager of Sunshine Timber.

Byron’s death is not the only mystery Mackenzie has to solve. Ex-fiancĂ© Glenn has asked Mackenzie to return his family heirloom engagement ring so he can propose to Daisy. Mackenzie’s able to crack any case
 except this one. She’ll need the help of Reggie, and her less conventional methods to find it. But when she does, she’s faced with another obstacle – actually giving it back. Give Mackenzie a murder any day, it’s feelings that rattle her.
And Colin’s starting to adopt some of Mackenzie’s obsessive investigative style when he dives into solving a word puzzle that may, or may not, be the break in the case that solves the whole thing.

Just finished episode two of Return to Paradise.

It’s a very enjoyable and entertaining series. A second season surely is guaranteed.

It is so freaking good.

The rubber glove during reveal, plus the ending, were hilarious

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Unfortunately only 6 episodes in the inaugural season .

Episode 5

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Sunday 6 October 7.30pm

A game of lawn bowls turns to chaos when a player is killed on the green by an antique ornamental bushranger’s gun. Is the ghost of Bushranger Bill haunting Dolphin Cove, or is there a deadlier truth behind the yarn?

Artie O’Farrell (Peter O’Brien) is found shot dead on the bowling green of a legendary clubhouse, named after famous local renegade Bushranger Bill. There are five witnesses, including Daisy, who heard the gunshot from within the bowls clubhouse. Could the murder weapon really be Bushranger Bill’s decommissioned gun which is on display in the club? And with everyone inside when the gunshot was heard, who could have murdered Artie?

As the team journey into the past to find answers, they must reckon with their own pasts. Still shaken by Glenn drunkenly sliding the wedding ring onto her finger, Mack investigates whether or not he’s telling the truth about remembering it or not. And Reggie realises Bushranger Bill was not the hero she believed he was to everyone in town, specifically for Felix.

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Another great episode, however, Celia Ireland’s character is a waste of space and shouldn’t return next season.

She’s like the Darlene (or if you listened to idiot Dwayne and his ridiculous fake accent, you’d think her name was Darling) of the OG
 a citizen who goes and becomes part of the police.

She’s painful and useless. And this is coming from a Celia fan.

Episode 6 Season Final

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Sunday 13 October 7.30pm

Crabby Vince Ogden is found dead in his locked bedsit. Mackenzie is ready to throw herself into the case when she learns she’s been cleared of misconduct & can return to London. It’s what she wanted, but maybe Dolphin Cove isn’t ready for her to leave.

When crabby mine owner Vince Ogden (Peter Phelps) is found dead in his locked bedsit at Ogden Wharf, victim of an apparent suicide that eerily mirrors that of his ancestor, Mackenzie smells a rat. She thinks it’s murder, which poses an even bigger question: if the only door to the bedsit was locked and bolted from the inside, how did the killer escape?

Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and Mackenzie needs to find the source of the Ogden family’s pain in order to catch the killer.

And she’s more than happy to throw herself into the case, considering Glenn is now engaged to Daisy. But another distraction arrives in the form of DI Mooney (Ardal O’Hanlon), who has sent word from London that she’s been cleared of misconduct and is free to return. It’s exactly what she wanted, although she finds herself feeling sadder than expected to be leaving behind the Dolphin Cove Police crew.

And she’s not the only one. Colin and the team have grown used to the methodical, tenacious, infuriatingly brilliant Mackenzie Clarke. What would Dolphin Cove be without her?

Returning to London is Mack’s dream come true, but can Mackenzie really leave her team, and Glenn
 and her dog? Or does Dolphin Cove finally have something to offer Mack?

ABC iView have just released the rest of the season.

The series is part of BBC Studio’s program slate at Mipcom in Cannes later this month.