Season: 2
Format: 8 x 1 hr Crime Drama
Distribution: ABC / Amazon / Viaplay (2024)
Production Company: Perpetual Entertainment, Beyond Entertainment, AGC Television, Renegade Entertainment
Created by: Yolanda Ramke
Inspired by: Redemption Point by Candice Fox (Novel)
Executive Produced by: Greg Quail, Lisa Duff, Mikael Borglund, David Ogilvy, Stuart Ford, Lourdes Diaz, Thomas Jane, Courtney Lauren Penn, Yolanda Ramke, Matt Bankston
Produced by: Lisa Duff, Karl Zwicky
Directed by: Grant Brown, Robyn Grace, Thomas Jane
Written by: Jane Allen, Chelsea Cassio, Kit Brookman, Andrew Anastasios, Cole Haddon, Boyd Quakawoot, Angela McDonald
Starring: Thomas Jane, Nicole Chamoun, Simon Lyndon, Radha Mitchell, Zindzi Okenyo, Brett Tucker, Ursula Yovich, Ethan Lwin, Miah Madden, Sara West, Meyne Wyatt, Joe Davidson, Arka Das, Angela Punch McGregor
"Top 10 Most Watched TV Series"
Amazon Prime Video US - #4
(August 2024)
REVIEWS - SEASON 2
Johnny Loftus DECIDER: "We’ve all watched a million murder shows, and we’ll all watch a million more. What breaks Troppo out of its formulaic frame is the unpredictability of Ted and Amanda’s partnership. They’ve grown to enjoy working together, even if it remains at times argumentative, and their personalities mesh best when improvising on a hunt for clues or scrambling to help each other out of a jam. And... the writing always manages to take an additional turn, an extra line or two that lends individuality and watchability to the proceedings."
Ryan O'Rourke, COLLIDER: "Prime Video is finding major success in the outback with the release of Season 2 of the hit Australian drama Troppo. Following the return of Thomas Jane and Nicole Chamoun to U.S. screens, the show has quickly and quietly risen into seventh place on the streaming platform's top ten most-watched television series list. Troppo has been hailed for the excellent dynamic between the two very different investigators and how they work together to solve each murder case they come across. Each season is as much about getting to the bottom of horrific murders in the tropics of Australia as it is about the partners coming to terms with their own sordid pasts and finding redemption."
Anthony Morris, SCREEN HUB: "Much like the first season, this takes a little while to get going. But everything we see pays off at some point; there’s a lot happening across the eight episodes and even the dead ends usually have a quirky moment or memorable performance to make them worthwhile... The murder and its various spin-offs might be the main driver here, but some of the most satisfying moments come when they use their skills to help solve each other’s mysteries – and going by the way events pan out, there could be a lot more of that in their future."
Season: 1
Format: 8 x 1 hr Crime Drama
Distribution: ABC / Amazon / Viaplay (2022)
Production Company: EQ Media Group, Beyond Entertainment, AGC Television, Renegade Entertainment
Created by: Yolanda Ramke
Inspired by: Crimson Lake by Candice Fox (Novel)
Executive Produced by: Greg Quail, Lisa Duff, Mikael Borglund, David Ogilvy, Stuart Ford, Lourdes Diaz, Thomas Jane, Courtney Lauren Penn, Yolanda Ramke, Matt Bankston
Produced by: Lisa Duff, Karl Zwicky
Directed by: Jocelyn Moorhouse, Catherine Millar, Grant Brown, Yolanda Ramke & Ben Howling
Written by: Yolanda Ramke, Blake Ayshford, Jane Allen, Kodie Bedford, Penelope Chai, Craig Irvin
Starring: Thomas Jane, Nicole Chamoun, David Lyons, Yerin Ha, Sun Park, Kate Beahan, Josh Helman, Radha Mitchell, Simon Lyndon, Ling Cooper Tang, Caroline Brazier, Sara West, Thomas Weatherall, Chris Alosio
REVIEWS - SEASON 1
Luke Buckmaster, THE GUARDIAN: ""In terms of icky genre thrills and spills, the show’s creator, Yolanda Ramke, has form: she co-directed the 2017 zombie movie Cargo, starring Martin Freeman as an infected man desperately trying to find someone to look after his wee bub before he turns into a flesh-muncher... Filling a surprising gap in the outback TV detective genre, notwithstanding the excellent albeit comparatively recent Mystery Road spin-offs, this eight-part series, inspired by Candice Fox’s bestselling book Crimson Lake, is addictive in an airport novel sort of way: steeped in formula but quite appealingly written, performed and directed."
Travis Johnson, FLICKS: "There’s a spicier flavour to Troppo, both in the inclusion of the hard-to-pigeonhole Pharrell, a queer-coded post-riot-grrl figure who isn’t your usual mystery protagonist, and it’s setting: a fictional Cairns-ish town in the Queensland tropics. They do things differently Up North, and Troppo captures the rough and ready mood and the sultry heat of the primordial rainforest beautifully, thanks to great production design from Nick McCallum and warm photography by Martin McGrath. This is another “small town with an old shame” story that crop up so often in the Australian crime genre, but if the recent Eric Bana vehicle The Dry, was the classy, literary version, Troppo is the more enjoyably vulgar and idiosyncratic."
Johnny Loftus DECIDER: "Watching these two proud but very damaged people sort out their respective baggage as they stand together against all the local adversity in this dusty Queensland town is the allure at the center of Troppo, and the chemistry between Nicole Chamoun and Thomas Jane is apparent from the instant they’re together."
Anthony Morris, SCREEN HUB: ""The real draw in the first hour-long episode is the prickly relationship between Amanda and Ted. They’re both wounded, desperate people who are clearly hurting; they’re also the kind of people who tend to lash out. It’s their mystery-solving skills that complement each other. She’s rash and impulsive, but also the one who moves things forward. He’s the steady hand who maybe plays it a little too safe at times. Their personal dramas weave in and out of the wider mystery across the eight episodes. Both Chamoun and Jane give likable performances while keeping their characters’ spikier edges intact."