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Metro
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Netflix is hours away from dropping all 6 episodes of 'traumatic' new thriller
If you're willing to stay up for a few more hours into the night, Netflix is about to release your next bingeable fix. The creator behind the platform's hits Clickbait and Stateless now brings The Survivors to the streaming service, a murder mystery set against the Australian island Tasmania's unforgiving landscape. Showrunner Tony Ayres has described the six-part miniseries as 'a family melodrama disguised as a murder mystery', exploring the long-tail of generational trauma. Based on Jane Harper's bestselling book, the thriller follows Kieran Elliott (Charlie Vickers) and Mia Chang (Yerin Ha), who return to Kieran's Tasmanian hometown Evelyn Bay. They arrive in the seaside setting fifteen years after a terrible storm took three lives, including Kieran's older brother. Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro's TV Newsletter. Sign up to our newsletter and then select your show in the link we'll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you. When a young woman's body is discovered on the beach, Kieran's father (Damien Garvey), who's suffering from dementia, becomes the prime suspect. The tragedy forces the community of Evelyn Bay – where everybody knows everybody's business – to confront their long-ignored grief and buried secrets. A synopsis of the show on Netflix's Tudum reads: 'The show explores what happens to families and friends when they're forced to reckon with the kind of traumatic events that have a way of floating up to the surface again and again. 'It's a thrilling whodunnit— with an intensely emotional core.' Ayres has described the show as a 'Trojan horse' for family melodrama, using the murder mystery as cover. 'The things that are really at its heart are things like a son wanting his mother's love and the mother who just cannot afford to give it because her whole world might fall apart,' he said. 'Themes of family and loss and the stories that we tell each other to understand loss.' Evelyn Bay isn't a real place, but one Jane Harper created for her novel, although the Netflix production did shoot at various locations in Tasmania. Ayres told Variety: 'It became very clear once we found Eagle Hawk Neck and the spectacular landscapes that the locations were going to be crucial to not just the tone of the show, but the themes of the show.' More Trending Those who come to The Survivors as fans of Harper's books will also find much more than they bargained for here. Ayres has explained that the novel only afforded around two and a half hours of screen time, but Netflix wanted to make six episodes of the show. He told the trade publication that there was a degree of 'invention' behind the scenes, but all of it drawn from the original book. View More » The Survivors is available to stream on Netflix from June 6. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Feel Good remains one of the greatest LGBTQ+ gifts to TV MORE: Holly Willoughby suffers major blow as Netflix show is 'axed' after one season MORE: I binge-watch TV for a living – here are my recommendations for June
Arab News
5 days ago
- Lifestyle
- Arab News
Artist Massoud Hayoun's London exhibition ‘Stateless' explores identity, exile
DUBAI: Los Angeles-based artist and author Massoud Hayoun has spent his career exploring identity, exile and resistance. For the latest updates, follow us on Instagram @ His latest exhibition, 'Stateless,' running at London's Larkin Durey art gallery until June 27, is an exploration of control, culture and community. Raised by his grandparents, Hayoun paints their stories of exile, love and resilience in shades of blue, blending personal narratives with icons of Arab cinema and song to highlight shared cultural memories. His paintings are imbued with the legacy of his Egyptian and Tunisian Jewish heritage, but they also reach beyond his own family's history. His grandfather left Egypt, and his mother was born without citizenship — experiences that deeply inform his work. In 'Stateless,' he extends this exploration of displacement and belonging to other communities, particularly Palestinians and undocumented Americans, he told Arab News. 'In this show, you'll find people suspended between homeland and refuge, suspended in mid-air, suspended between life and death and living out a sort of existentialist heroism, suspended in undying romance,' he said. Hayoun's journey to painting was shaped by his background in journalism. A former journalist, he is also the author of 'When We Were Arabs,' a book on Arab identity that won an Arab American Book Award and was named a National Public Radio best book of the year in 2019. His transition from writing to painting was a natural evolution. 'I am a figurative painter — I paint people. My journalism was animated by a love of people and a desire to better understand, through interviews like this, people from walks of life drastically different to my own,' he said. His use of blue is deliberate. Initially reserved for people who had died, the color now engulfs all his subjects, evoking the transient nature of identity and existence. 'At first, I only painted my grandparents and other dead people in shades of blue, because to my mind, the glow of it seemed ghostly. I cast other people in different colors to signify other states of being. Eventually, after reflections on time, everyone became blue, even myself,' he said. Yet, at its core, Hayoun's work is about more than politics — it is about love. 'These works touch on sweeping political, philosophical and sociological issues, but they are fundamentally about love for people,' he said. 'They are meant in the way my grandparents expressed anxiety as a kind of love—fear for my well-being, fervent hopes that I live well and in dignity. These paintings are explosions of love,' he added.
