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    Wipe that smile

    Feb 21, 2021 5 minutes
    by RUSSELL BAILLIE

    The first season of The Gulf was nothing if not ambitious. It aimed at being a local answer to Broadchurch or the Scandinavian crime dramas of recent times. It largely succeeded, helped by all that brooding atmosphere and a compelling lead performance by Kate Elliot as Detective Senior Sergeant Jess Savage. Her character had a lot going on: a slow recovery from amnesia that was the result of the car crash that killed her husband, an addiction to painkillers and a difficult relationship with her pregnant teenage daughter.

    Ah well, at least Savage lived somewhere nice, in a rambling seaside villa on Waiheke Island where the show is set. Though just as it was in 2019, the Waiheke of ’s imminent second season feels big and bleak and

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