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The six-part series was filmed in New South Wales with additional filming for desert locations in South Australia. French distributor and production company APC Studios helped fund the project and provided worldwide distribution.
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thought much better of the series, writing: "as much as sombre images of death and destruction can evoke emotional reactions, nothing hits the point as hard as the glaring judgment of satire done well – which is exactly what
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gave the series three stars out of five and described the series as, "much more fickle: sometimes funny as a comedy, sometimes effective as a drama, but rarely satisfying as a combination of both". Wenlei Ma from
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The series received mixed reviews, attaining a score of 5.0 on IMDb. Luke Buckmaster from
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review – Maralinga nuclear testing rendered as part-drama, part-farce"
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will make you want to laugh and retch at the same time"
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Index

Dramedy
Peter Duncan
Antony Partos
list of episodes
ABC
comedy-drama
Peter Duncan
ABC TV
British nuclear bomb tests
Maralinga
outback
South Australia
Operation Buffalo
Ewen Leslie
Jessica De Gouw
James Cromwell
Tony Martin
Sam Parsonson
Benedict Wall
Adrienne Pickering
Shantae Barnes-Cowan
Bojana Novakovic
Harry Greenwood
Natasha Bassett
Nicholas Hope
Philip Quast
Angus McLaren
John Gaden
Sibylla Budd
Ryan Johnson

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