'A Remarkable Place To Die' Is a Scenic Hunt for Justice
If you enjoyed The Brokenwood Mysteries or Top of the Lake, you're in luck, as Acorn TV's latest series, the New Zealand-set thriller A Remarkable Place To Die, is about to debut in the U.S. Created and written by Philly de Lacey (The Gulf) it stars popular New Zealand actor Chelsea Preston Crawford as Detective Anaís Mallory who returns to her home town of Queenstown in New Zealand, which she both loves and hates.
After a two-year secondment in Sidney, Australia, she needs to resolve some family history – her father’s death four years ago, and her sister’s death two years later. Justice has been done in her father’s case, with the guilty party jailed, but some doubts remain. Her sister Lynne’s death two years before has never been resolved. Was it suicide or murder? Needless to say, shortly after Anaís gets into the police station she gets her sticky hands onto the case file, but her first case is uncomfortably similar to her sister’s death.
The episode’s name, "Skippers," refers to the local cliff where a vehicle with a three-day-old corpse inside has tumbled over the edge. The spectacular Skipper Cliff is part of the Remarkable Mountain Range, popular with skiers and winter sports enthusiasts, hence the title wording. Anais’s unhappiness at her return is not helped by meeting up with her ex-fiance, restaurant owner Luke Staunton (Charles Jazz Terrier), now married to her former best friend, Maja (Indiana Evans), who owns a fancy fitness center. It’s awkward, the looming Remarkable range to say the least, but Anaís now sees them for the flakes they are.
