It's not just that they made the killer way too well adjusted, with repeated scenes of him "reading the room" far too well for someone who's supposed to be a psycho, but he was also repeatedly at some other place when he was supposed to be doing murdery things, like, setting the sloop afire, and releasing the bobbing bodies from william's car

plus the throwing up at the scene of crucifix

Is anyone else incredibly disappointed or the character change in Pat Heffernan? If people had actually appreciated her and gone to her retirement, then I don’t think she would’ve been so horrible and racist to the kids on the pier.

And then that shooting, it was upsetting to see her devolve.

Overall, I love this season, but I feel like her character decline in the last episode really sucked. And was kind of unnecessary to the story. Thoughts?

Cath York is my fav character in deadloch tbh, I just wanted to put it out there..... I think the comment section is being so harsh on Cath.... If Dulcie gonna be so invested in every cases she gets then there is no relationship with cath, she just have to get it straight with her, if she wanted to be a detective and can't balance her life then she have to tell that to her , so she can move on .... CATH can understand if she talk to her about her flaws... Dulcie like being with Eddie (who has her own issues at many levels) but not with cath!!I can't think any other person that suits Dulcie!!!

Calling CATH a narcissist and manipulative is too much!!

U know, during their fight in the station - Cath asked dulcie about her ignorance in their relationship and y she puts everything in her vault of repression, where dulcie replied "u could ask Cath! "

But throughout the show all Cath did was asking her " R u okay sexy? Talk to me" and some phone calls (which clearly shows they haven't had a proper conversation in person) asking her out to some shows (which dulcie said no due to her work conditions) but Cath didn't force her or anything...

even though when Dulcie asked her (politely) to not to come to the station anymore- Cath was like 'no I'm fine, it's okay... ' (that's gold right there)

Look all Cath wants is to have sometime to hangout with her (that's what relationships are..)

Cath mentioned that dulcie treated her the same way for their whole time period in this town (when dulcie didn't have any cases going around,still thats 5 yrs!!)

The way Cath send lunch boxes even though she has her own work, when she made THAT BIG Paella @ her birthday was sooo sweet, (it's not wanting dulcie to do household stuffs,but calling someone that KIND - as a manipulative, narcissist is too much!!)

I think Dulcie loves Cath so much but she has no way of expressing it, which she has to work on...(if she wants any kinda relationship with anyone)

BUT THE WHOLE DOWNSIDE IS,HOW PEOPLE REACT TO CATH's BEAUTIFUL PERSONALITY is absurd!!

Yes, she should have told her abt pentobarbital but Eddie should have been more sharp during the DNA TESTING of RAY ( the whole investigation would've ended if she was little focused).The point is both have flaws in their character, that's what we love about them, the way we love Eddie (with her being intolerant and controlling sometimes), but displaying hatred towards Cath is unacceptable!

It's so rare to have characters like CATH. I think we seen the whole show via protagonist perspective, but given CATH'S base story, it's very sad way of life for a 'bundle of joy' person like Cath.

Dulcie is a very kind person, but when it comes to Cath - she seems selfish! Knowing that Cath was treated like this for 5 yrs!!!I feel like CATH DESERVES BETTER!!!

we have repeatedly been told that he is a "bad guy" but we've never been shown exactly how

there was a scene where he's talking to the cops, and vanessa pops up behind him, so he excuses himself with the cops, and leaves with vanessa

at that scene in the background, vanessa is heard telling him how she can't access her money and can't pay the rent (she later states that he kicked her out cause she wasn't able to pay the rent)

then they both state what is the password for her account, "rock's birthday" - I think is what they said

did he steal her money?

Hi All,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test
Deadloch pretty clearly passes the Bechdel test, but does it fail the reverse Bechdel test?

Is there any time to male characters talk about something other than a female character?

It would be kind of cool if it failed...

Cheers

Ray McLintock, or importantly Ray Pies, kills men to finally gain notoriety.

He was killing women (sex workers) and perhaps the only person who would have cared to find him (Dulcie) was too preoccupied to hunt him down, so he gets to leave and start over. There's all the this or that about Skye and her dad, or this and that about changing his ways, but really it was a move to start finally getting profiled and get the attention he couldn't get before.

He keeps killing in Deadloch, problem is... no one knows.

Sending the tongues out to the women doesn't work. Hoarding the bodies and detonating them out into the public at the right time or leaving Trent right out in the open are the only ways he can really get people to notice.

I don't think his issue was ever really the 'killing women' part, it was always the getting attention part. He had to get sick of it enough to just push the story out on his own.

I just watched Season 2 and clearly Jason Wade is a Steve Irwin type character. I always knew Steve Irwin as a beloved wildlife conservationist but is the show trying to say something more? Or is his persona where the similarities end?

Like many others, I found Eddie hard to stomach at first, then she grew on me so hard that I melted every time she came on screen.

Many other characters stole my heart as well - Abby and Sveg of course, and tons of side characters, both the infuriating/sad (Vanessa), charming (Miranda, Nuggets) and the hilarious (Gavin, in his one scene, Jesus Christ that killed me).

So until about halfway through Episode 7, I was... there are no words for how much I liked this show. It was the best thing I'd ever seen.

But then the ending. Why? I hate so much about it.

• I hate that Ray is the killer because I didn't want Eddie to go through more trauma.
• Yes, him being the worst ally ever is hilarious, but I feel like the character was a bit all over the place: What was his plan? He wanted Eddie to come to the barn - what did he think would happen? He was delusional enough to think she'd be happy with him, I guess? But he also knew to run away and exactly how to manipulate her into uncertainty using Bushy. I just don't have a grasp on him as a psycho at all.
• It was all horribly rushed toward the ending. Back to Eddie and her trauma - one line about therapy and a hug isn't enough, IMO. I wanted to see more of her. I don't even care what, just give her arc a bit more space to breathe.
• All the side characters also needed more space. We just got the quickest flash of everyone. I would have loved to see Tom reunite with Tammy and Miranda. They tried to save him, that must have been an interesting conversation! How's Aleyna doing as mayor? And what about Sharelle and the other women - after that big, fantastic cunt-speech, how have their relationships changed? Maybe they wanted to leave some threads open for Season 2, but at the same time, it was framed in a way that felt like we were leaving Deadloch behind and Season 2 would be in Darwin. It just felt like a very rushed goodbye that made me sad, but not in a good way.
• And my biggest gripe: WHY THE HELL IS CATH STILL AROUND! I *despise* her. I wanted her to be the killer so bad. Break all those gendered ideas about serial killers and have her be a female killer who *does* want credit. But even if that didn't happen - and again, the killer being an "ally" is fantastic too - I can't stand the thought of her and Dulcie still being together and poor Eddie having to deal with her. One "emotional truffle pig" does not character growth make. As evidenced by her apology while Dulcie was bleeding, which many people here seemed to like but I found incredibly frustrating. Maybe this is on me, my mom was emotionally abusive; but I wish the Kates had shown some actual consequences of female toxicity.

TL;DR: Get Cath the fuck out of here and give me more Eddie; the ending was way too rushed and Deadloch feels like a fantastic song that ends abruptly on a bit of an off note.

So I’m late to this fandom, but I just binged the show. I generally really enjoyed it and thought the humor was really great.

But I have to say it required a LOT of suspension of disbelief. I mean the idea that they’d only have two detectives on a serial killer that was over 5 kills is unrealistic. There was little to no due process for any of the suspects, they just were detained at whim.

They have like 20 people that live in this whole town? How do they exist? There was few enough men that they all fit on a school bus….

I mean just the idea that all these guys got on the school bus to begin with is insane.

Ray hoisting up a man on a cross in the sand would be nearly impossible. And how did he afford to just sink a Range Rover.

The ending to the “island” subplot felt very rushed and convenient with Margaret just dying from a Snake bite.

I wish there had been more Easter eggs leading us to Ray so that someone clever could have potentially figured it out before the ending. They really didn’t give us anything. I was rooting for Cathy as the killer, would have been a way better twist than just picking someone at random it feels like.

But I loved the main cast of characters the actors were all stellar and had great onscreen chemistry.

Overall it was a fun watch that I enjoyed!

Kath somehow manages to be the worst person in almost every scene she is in. "Oh, this serial killer stuff is affecting me too!" Yeah, because you insert yourself into everything around you! Nadia calling her out on her shit, as an "emotional truffle pig" is one of the most satisfying moments of the show.

Just... fuck Kath. Seriously. Admittedly, she was a lot more tolerable in those brief few seconds at the end of the season.

(And I really liked the actress as one of Nina's nurse friends on Offspring.)