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• Clearly someone is going to die, if they are not already dead, and a small community will be riven as its dark secrets are exposed to the pale light of a wintry Nordic day.
• This is Deadloch, the fictional town that is the setting for a comedy crime drama that flips the Nordic Noir genre on its arse, so to speak.

Funny Broadchurch

• In 2015, they launched The Katering Show on YouTube: a web series spoofing the homely genre of the cooking show that eventually found its way onto ABC iview.
• They followed it with Get Krack!n, an attack on the genre of the cheerful but inane television breakfast show.
• Apparently, the inspiration emerged from the “explosion of Nordic Noir” they were watching while breastfeeding at in the early mornings of 2015.

What is Nordic Noir anyway?

• The impact of Nordic Noir on television production around the world has indeed been significant.
• While there are those who suggest Nordic Noir may have already passed its use by date, McCulloch and Proctor argue that the ripple effects are still being felt.

Australian Noir

• Australian crime dramas with clear Nordic Noir influences have become common.
• Produced by Matchbox pictures for Foxtel Showcase in 2016, Secret City re-imagined Canberra as the sexy setting for a Nordic Noir drama that owed as much to the Danish series Borgen as it did to The Bridge in terms of its aesthetics and style.
• The politics, however, were resolutely Australian, featuring Australia’s pig-in-the-middle predicament in the US-China power game.

Flip the colour palette

• The ABC Indigenous crime drama Mystery Road flipped the colour palette to orange and red in what Bunya Productions producer David Jowsey described as “tropical outback gothic noir”.
• Mystery Road managed to retain the measured pace of Nordic Noir and exquisite attention to a monumental and threatened landscape, while focusing on Indigenous issues.

Potty-mouthed satire

• Which brings us back to Deadloch and the apotheosis of the Australian assimilation of Nordic Noir as a potty-mouthed satire that is also a feisty feminist take on the more usual gender politics of the crime drama.
• Instead of a mismatched male and female cop from different cultural backgrounds, we have a couple of mismatched female detectives whose initially testy relationship gradually ameliorates as they join forces in the quest for the truth.
• Rather than a married male detective having problems at home, we have a female detective whose lesbian wife needs constant affirmation.

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• Located at the Wiehle-Reston East Metro Station, Puttshack will anchor the building as the first active entertainment venue at Reston Station when it opens in Summer 2025.
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  Puttshack Reston will be a major entertainment destination for D.C. metro area residents and visitors alike.
• Were excited to add Puttshack as another new-to-market, curated experience at Reston Station, said Tim Steffan, Chief Operating Officer of Comstock.
• Strategically located midway between Tysons Corner, Virginia and Dulles International Airport, Reston Station is home to the first Helmut Jahn designed building in Virginia.