Winter TV Finales - True Colours - miniseries

True Colours is my latest Winter TV Finales, like Ms Marvel over the weekend, I settled into another four-part miniseries.

Broadcast from 4-7 July 2022 on SBS TV/NITV, the miniseries was created, written and directed by Erica Glynn and Steven McGregor.

Starring Rarriwuy Hick as detective Toni Alma in a remote community in the Northern Territory. Alma is assigned to investigate a suspicious car accident in Perdar Theendar, the Aboriginal community she left as a child. The story touches on the place of Indigenous Australian art and the practices of the global art world, and explores Aboriginal culture.

True Colours was filmed entirely on location in the Macdonnell Ranges, east of Alice Springs / Mparntwe, including in the community of Amoonguna. Hundreds of works by artists from Central Australia feature in the series, which represents Arrernte culture and language.

Critics gave the series favourable reviews, with TV Week calling it "authentic and powerful".

I enjoyed the series, however after watching the brilliant Mystery Road: Origin, it was hard not to compare this series to the recent origin return of Jay Swan.

I enjoyed the return of Luke Arnold to the small screen. However with so much good Aussie TV out there at the moment, this seemed a little Home & Away versus the Netflix/streaming quality of Mystery Road, Wentworth (where we first laid eyes on Rarriwuy Hick) and Bump.

Its a good time for Aussie drama lovers with The Secret She Keeps returning for a second season on Paramount+, Neighbours concluding this week with an all-star final week episode run, The Twelve currently airing on Binge/Foxtel along with a third season of Bump in the future sometime.

True Colours streams now on SBS On Demand.