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BEST EPISODE

“A Free Ranger” (1.03): when Waruu and Harry break three of the prisoners out of the containment centre, things go hideously wrong.

TRIVIA

The Cleverman is part of Aboriginal mythology. Series creator Ryan Griffen describes him as “like the Pope of the Dreamtime… the conduit between the present and the Dreaming”.

DID YOU SPOT?

okay, we think this is deliberate black humour… Ash is reduced to ashes, and Blair, carrying her ashes, tells Aunty Linda, “This is Ash.”

BEST MOMENT

The scene in which Blair lays into Koen for being a self-seeking git and Kora, who doesn’t speak English, keeps calling him an “arse”.

NITPICK

one of the show’s few missteps is having the character who’s artificially inseminated be a doctor; how come she doesn’t work out something’s seriously wrong with the pregnancy?