With a cast featuring Miranda Otto and Noah Taylor, Thou Shalt Not Steal uses outback Australia in the early ’80s as a canvas for juvenile antics, criminal collusion and Indigenous defiance.
Every episode of this irreverent limited series opens with a spaghetti western fanfare, a brief blare of music as goofy as it is grand. It’s an apt scene-setter for this crime caper on wheels, which uses outback Australia in the early 1980s as a canvas for juvenile antics, criminal collusion, Indigenous defiance, family reckonings, and an almighty dose of vintage vernacular. You know the old line about not pissing on someone even if they were on fire? Well, it gets field tested here.
“Apparently we’re all God’s children, so where is he?” Robyn asks in her narration. “Just another drop-dead dad.” But when she tracks down her ailing grandfather, Ringer , Robyn learns more about the father she’s never met, setting off a journey from her remote community that sees her crossing paths with a taxi driver who specialises in sex trafficking, Maxine , a sham preacher, Robert , and his eager-to-escape son, Gidge .
The show’s frankness spans the farcical to the telling, such as Robert slyly selling “sacramental wine” in a supposedly dry Aboriginal township, but it’s always played with a light hand that allows for mocking music cues and near-miss cliffhangers. The wheels are always turning as the plot literally heads south, but it manages to find a genuine emotional core in its young absconders. “You’re an idiot,” is the first thing Robyn says to Gidge, but he wins her over.
The broader question of why certain players’ teams stumbled, and the role they may have played in that, tends to get sidelined by noble failure. For me, the best parts are the tangents, such as some of James’ lofty self-reflection, and the supporting cast. There is a lot of doting father content, including Jayson Tatum being disappointed about playing on Christmas Day, but the antidote is Domantas Sabonis’ wife Shashana.
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