Summer Slack TV Finales - Firebite - Season One

Firebite created by Warwick Thornton airing on AMC+/Amazon Prime in Australia. The eight episode first season commenced on 16 December 2021.

Set in a remote mining town in the middle of the South Australian desert, the series centres around two Indigenous Australian hunters, Tyson (Rob Collins) and Shanika (Shantae Barnes-Cowan), on their quest to battle the last colony of vampires.

Rob Collins is literally everywhere right now. Slaying in Total Control, being the handsome leading man in RFDS along with roles in Upright, Mystery Road and of course way back when he was the lead in The Wrong Girl. Yael Stone from OINTB also stars.

The series began filming in August 2021, and is filmed in the traditional Country of the Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara people of the Western Desert and Kaurna People of the Adelaide Plains in and around Adelaide, the regional town of Coober Pedy, and at the Adelaide Studios in South Australia.

So how do vampires in the middle of the Australian outback/dessert fair? It's an interesting concept however I did find myself slightly distracted through the last few episodes.

Collins is excellent, the finale serves up a bit of a cliffhanger, however this could be a little too niche for a second season. AMC love the blood sucking, dead humans through all their Walking Dead series, however I am not sure whether this Australian created series would be back for more middle of Australia carnage.

If you need a quick eight episode home grown series this might be for you, however if you haven't seen Total Control on ABC iview with Collins yet. Maybe give that a go first up.