Series 3, Episode 1
Sunday 14 January 8.30pm
Deborah Mailman and Rachel Griffiths return in the final series of Total Control. Kingmaker, Alex Irving, is at the centre of power in the nation’s capital but what she’s about to discover will test her like never before.
Starring two titans of the screen, Deborah Mailman and Rachel Griffiths, the gripping third and final instalment of this acclaimed political drama is not to be missed.
It’s been a tumultuous two years since outsider turned kingmaker, Alex Irving (Deborah Mailman) anointed Paul Murphy (Wayne Blair) as Australia’s first Aboriginal Prime Minister. Since then, the government has weathered a summer of bushfires, a global pandemic, mounting debt, and the tide of public sentiment turning against them.
When part of Alex’s electorate is hit by once in a century floods, she takes the disaster response into her own hands, using the media and a chance meeting with billionaire Kathleen Sloane, to make a pointed criticism of the government.Meanwhile, Rachel (Rachel Griffiths) fronts the enquiry into the deaths of Marcie McClain and Jessica Clarke where she will finally have to answer to allegations of misconduct. In a deft moment of public relations, Rachel will turn the moment to her advantage and join Alex’s push for youth justice reform. Later Rachel delivers a rousing speech outlining her vision for the future of Australian democracy. But when a journalist friend from Rachel’s past reappears, a looming scandal threatens everything she’s worked for.