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The End (TVNZ OnDemand)
English actor Harriet Walter has been in so many things it's impossible to say with any authority that her performance as Edie in The End is "a career highlight" or "her
best yet", as tempting as those sort of superlatives are. Let's just say this one's right up there.
The first time we see her in this Australian series she's lying on her bed with a plastic bag over her head. But this attempt on her own life is interrupted by a smoke alarm after a log falls out of the fireplace and starts a house fire, so she gets up and throws herself out the window instead.