https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocUQFiMFEYo&feature=emb logo Tasmanian-produced mystery The Tailings will screen on SBS VICELAND. The 6 x 10-minute series featuring Tegan Stimson and Mabel Li dropped on SBS on Demand in April but this is its linear premiere. It will screen as a one hour drama special. The Tailings follows the events that take…
The image is a view from the summit of Mullach Mor on Hirta, the main island of the St Kilda archipelago. Boreray is the bigger island to the right. The central stac is Stac Lee (NA1405) and to the left is Stac an Armin (NA1506).
by Phil Thirkell
Introduction
The St Kilda archipelago is located about 65 km WNW of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides (Na h-Eileanan an Iar). It comprises three main islands (Hirta, Soay and Boreray) as well as Dun and many sea stacks. Hirta was inhabited for many centuries (it is unlikely that any of the other islands were ever permanently inhabited), but finally in 1930 the remaining inhabitants requested relocation to the mainland of Scotland, where the men found work in forestry or similar occupations. The last 36 residents left on 29 August that year.
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Filmed as 6 ten-minute episodes, new Australian drama series ‘The Tailings’ follows the events that take place after the death of teenage Jas’s father. The tight-knit community of her small town, nestled in the hauntingly beautiful mountains of Tasmania’s West Coast, puts his death down to an accident. Jas does not buy it and embarks on her own investigation of what happened to her dad.
His death coincides with the arrival of Jas’s new schoolteacher Ruby, who comes carrying the burden of her own past trauma. The two slowly develop a mutual trust and as the story unfolds, secrets are exposed, and the truth becomes impossible to ignore.
SBS has released a trailer for its short-run digital drama
The Tailings, coming to SBS on Demand.
The 6 x 10-minute mystery transports viewers to a remote town nestled amidst the eerie and hauntingly beautiful West Coast Tasmanian mountains, and explores the experience of two women (Tegan Stimson and Mabel Li) confronting the paradoxical layers of grief.
The ensemble castfeatures Kris McQuade (
Rosehaven, Wentworth), playing Jas’s grandmother who is grappling with supporting her granddaughter while processing her own loss. She is joined by Victoria Haralabidou (
Deep Water), Nic English (
Reckoning) and an array of local Tasmanian talent including Shaun Martindale, Sara Cooper, John Xintavelonis Harry Prior, Harry Radbone, Michael Earnshaw, Tai Nguyen, and Jane Hamilton Foster.