The Traveler, Byron Baes, Muster dogs and more: the 14 great Australian series of 2022

It's hard to innovate in the well-whipped "fuck me lifeless, it's hot!" Motion-mystery (my genre), though, this pulse-pounding BBC

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co-production starring Jamie Dornan as an amnesiac criminal on the run feels fresh. Dornan's brainless protagonist won't recognize

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who or what he's into, yet he does recognize that the mystery of his past has something to do with a person calling out to him after being buried alive

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Surely. This riveting and stylish collection reveals extremely good pacing by continually tackling the top two writers'.

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"What's the guy's head on?" and “What happens next?” –Luke Buckmaster

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In a country so adept at oblivion, this three-part documentary was a paean to memory, a work of candor

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dignity and human grace. Written and directed by filmmaker Rachel Perkins, The Australia Wars asked a simple and startling question

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why are we no longer remembering this nation's first and most pivotal war, the struggle for sovereignty

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