Refugee drama with Cate Blanchett

This is a passion project for one of its producers, Cate Blanchett (right), who is an ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The six-part series focuses on four strangers in a grim immigration detention centre in the middle of the Australian desert. They include asylumseeker Ameer, a young Afghan father who became separated from his family when fleeing the Taliban, and Sofie, a mentally fragile German-born Australian, who is estranged from her family and has just left a creepy cult (run by Dominic West and Blanchett). This storyline is based on a notorious real-life case in which a woman was detained for months in such a centre. Hard-hitting, thought-provoking TV. Netflix, from Wednesday