Fanmix: Wake and Be Fine | Songs for Tessa and Steve

[piecesofalice]

Do you guys remember Murder Call? Australian cop procedural with a noir kick that ran on Channel 9 from 1997-2000? No? *proverbial crickets*

Welp, I do. Based on the Tessa Vance novels by Jennifer "Emily Rodda" Rowe, it was the sister program of sorts to Water Rats. Rats was, at the time, an exceptionally popular cop show that was pretty much

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[piecesofalice]

YESSS I KNEW SOMEONE WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED THE SHOW.

Ugh, she's amazing. I think I wanted to be her when I was 12, just in general.

If one of those TV Weeks has amazing photos like so:



I will happily take them off your hands :D

[krazykitkat]

Unfortunately they've been recycled :( If I'd only know a few weeks ago.

I did have a little thing for them. And as always I love my lead women.

Does the show hold up? Part of me wants to see it again...

[piecesofalice]

Strangely, it does. I mean, there's a lot of brown lipstick and bad 90's fashion, but (and I hate saying things like this) I think it was a little ahead of its time. I didn't realise it at the time, but it's kind of odd in that the cases are pretty off the wall - a lot of the time they're struggling to pull it off, but a lot of the time they do. I can see why it didn't do so well with the Water Rats/Blue Heelers crowd, though.

Lucy Bell is phenomenal. I adore Tessa. Tessa is nuanced and not-perfect and flawed, and her and Peter Mochrie have amazing chemistry. And the core cast stays the same for the entire show - they don't add or subtract people - and I kind of think that helps to keep the show kind of intimate.

...i have a lot of feelings. I can find you some download links?

[krazykitkat]

Yeah, I remember the cases being tending to be a little on the odd side. But then I didn't like Blue Heelers (there were more cops in that country town than most city stations) and wasn't interested in Water Rats.

And definitely interested!

[piecesofalice]

I'll PM you :)

[krazykitkat]

Wheee! :) Going to bed with thoughts of Tessa & Steve in my head. Thank you!