For those unfamiliar, this is an Australian show that is a perfect and glorious satire of every possible Scandinoir/Dreich British Detective show possible, but it’s also so, so, so much more.

It’s technically a dark comedy but also manages to be a fascinating crime drama as well, while simultaneously managing to fit in deft examinations of misogyny, patriarchal violence, colonialism, racism and homophobia.

I can’t think of any detective/crime shows where there are at least a dozen well-rounded female characters with different personalities, motivations, backgrounds and stories. I can think of none that have at least 7 WOC, including two of the four main police characters. Also so many queer characters all over the place! It’s magnificent.

Also this feral gremlin is my favourite and I love her so much 😍

We talk about “fish” (which, cladistically, do not exist, there is no monophyletic group of “fish” that simultaneously includes all organisms we understand to be “fish”-like while also excluding, say, humans) because, despite the utter fiction that is fish, it’s still a useful label when we talk about certain features that “fish” tend to have in common.

and gay as hell, might i add

At a time when the difference between genders was never more rigidly enforced, they rebelled into soft, clannish, sly, joyful femininity. Never combatative…their weapons were the weapons of girls: humour, sexiness, slyness, flirty wit…

…the joy of the Beatles…is that rather than becoming men by killing their fathers, they became their dead mothers. John and Paul…married single mothers; wrote songs about dead mothers and their living mother-wives; left the maelstrom of the Beatles to live the lives of wives: buying farms, making bread, raising children. They rioted into their femininity.”