Reviews Pile in for ‘Treasure & Dirt’!

After launching on ABC and ABC iView on July 19th, Treasure & Dirt has received consistent high reviews, with critics praising the crime show for its unpredictability and peculiar but entertaining worldbuilding.

‘Treasure & Dirt brings a grand and surreal cinematic scope rarely seen in television crime dramas, and the writers – Matt Cameron and Kate Mulvany, adapting Chris Hammer’s novel of the same name – redeploy familiar genre elements in unpredictable ways.’

★★★★★ The Guardian

‘It’s fitting that this captivating outback crime drama begins with the discovery – in an otherworldly tunnel – of a decapitated body. Made with intoxicating precision, Treasure and Dirt is seriously obsessed with doing your head in. Using the detective procedural as a Trojan horse, the show subverts expectations and twists reality, so the fictional opal mining town of Nulla feels like a parallel realm that runs by its own arcane rules.’

★★★★ The Sydney Morning Herald

The series was created for television by Matt Cameron, and he also wrote five of the six episodes. The remaining episode, episode two, was penned by Kate Mulvany. Completing the writing team, Andrew Anastasios acted as Story Producer. Dean O’Gorman features as the ‘Irish Man’

All episodes are now available on ABC iView, and weekly 8.30pm releases continue on Sunday’s on ABC TV.