Netflix have released some brilliant dramas in recent years. The likes The Stranger, 13 Reasons Why, Money Heist, and Dark have all been hugely successful.
Considering how entertaining those offerings have been, we are really looking forward to this one.
Stateless is an Australian limited series that features some familiar faces and looks incredibly intriguing. It drops on Netflix on tomorrow, July 9th.
It tells the story of an Australian detention centre where four very different people are brought together in strange circumstances, including a young Australian woman who has just escaped from a cult.
The show, which is based on a true story, focuses on the history of Australia’s mandatory-detention system, which houses those who enter the country without visas, including asylum seekers.
It stars Cate Blanchett (as the leader of the cult) and The Wire's Dominic West, and you can watch the trailer in full below.
Written by Elise McCredie and Belinda Chayko, Netflix describes the show as:
'Stateless' is a powerful and timely series about four strangers whose lives collide at an immigration detention centre in the middle of the Australian desert: an airline hostess on the run from a dangerous cult, an Afghan refugee and his family fleeing persecution, a young father escaping a dead-end job and a bureaucrat running out of time to contain a national scandal.
The show originally aired on ABC in Australia earlier this year, with the reviews being hugely promising.
The New York Times said it is a compelling watch due to its 'top notch cast', while TIME believed it was well worth giving your attention to despite a slow start:
Stateless starts slow, and its earnestness may be off-putting to some. But it has something profound to say about how injustice can snowball into catastrophe.
Institutional power compounds the effects of choices made by deluded, self-interested, poorly trained individuals; even good intentions can backfire, with lethal results.
