Black Snow might be the north Queensland history lesson you never knew you needed
must surely count as one of the braver exercises in Australian TV in recent years. A crime drama set in the Australian South Sea Islander community of North Queensland, it demands a cast the like of which we haven’t seen before – and that means a cast that has had little, if any, professional experience.Travis Fimmel brings his own swagger and mystery to the story as a cold-case detective with demons of his own.
It’s a well-constructed genre piece, but it’s also pretty familiar. Where it really gets interesting is in the way series creator Lucas Taylor and his writing team have interwoven aspects of the area’s shameful history into the narrative – specifically, the trade in Pacific Islanders who were brought to Australia from the mid 19th century to work in the cane fields. It was called blackbirding, it was in large part a form of slavery, and more than 60,000 people were brought here that way.
The echoes of that dark history reverberate through this tale; the statues of early colonialists that stand in silhouette against a sky dominated by refinery smokestacks are no longer enough to make a terrible past seem respectable.Sharp Objects
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