Hit the mean streets of Western Sydney in this new, gritty Australian crime series that takes a look at the fraught state of justice among the disadvantaged.
How to watch Critical Incident in Australia
Critical Incident is now streaming in Australia exclusively on Stan from August 12, with all six episodes available.
Critical Incident: Season 1
What is Critical Incident about?
Created by Sarah Bassiuoni, who drew on her own experiences working as a lawyer in the New South Wales juvenile justice system, Critical Incident‘s… uh, critical incident occurs when cop Senior Constable Zil Ahmed’s pursuit of his suspect, at-risk teenage girl Dalia Tun, results in a bystander being horribly injured. Things get complicated when it turns out that Dalia wasn’t his suspect after all, and nominal good cop Zil is pressured by is fellow fuzz to find something to pin on her, in order to save his own skin in the inevitable inquest.
Meanwhile Dalia, a group home resident with a troubled past, is feeling the pressure, and turns to drug dealer Ty Egan for help. The whole thing takes place in working class, ethnically diverse Western Sydney, and was shot in Blacktown, Parramatta, Granville, and Greenacre.
The cast of Critical Incident
Akshay Khanna is Senior Constable Zilifcar ‘Zil’ Ahmed; Zoë Boe is Dalia Tun; Cleverman‘s Hunter Page-Lochard is Ty Egan; with Roxie Mohebbi, Jai Waetford, Jackson Heywood (Bloom), Zindzi Okenyo (Wolf Like Me), Simone Kessell (Yellowjackets) and Erik Thomson (Blueback) in support.
Critical Incident trailer
Why we’re excited about Critical Incident
Specificity counts for a lot, and judging by what we’ve seen so far, creator Sarah Bassiuoni has gone to great lengths to present an authentic take on life in Western Sydney’s more hardscrabble social strata. We’re always up for a serve of home grown crime drama, and Critical Incident looks like it’ll tick that box nicely.
