Territory a ‘deadly’ series to rival Yellowstone

By PETER ROWE

The new Netflix series Territory has amassed more than 15 million views since its release on the streaming platform late last month.

Territory is an Australian six-part drama that explores the Marianne cattle station in the Northern Territory that involves rival farmers, a number of unsavoury gangster types, mining magnates and Indigenous elders, all cleverly written into a plot that is about succession.

And critics are already calling this the Aussie version of Yellowstone, the US hit series based on warring cattlemen in Montana.

Kakadu National Park was the setting for many scenes in Territory.

“Territory does better than Yellowstone in its attempts at weaving the Native perspective into the storytelling,” Hollywood reporter Dan Fienberg wrote.

Another wrote: “the series does a great job of establishing a simmering tension between the traditional owners of the land and the families and businesses that have taken possession of it.”

Filmed in Kakadu National Park and Tipperary Station in the Northern Territory and in Mallala on the Adelaide Plains, it is the biggest Netflix production to be filmed in South Australia.

The story revolves around Aboriginal cattle baron Nolan Brannock (played by Clarence Ryan) who is battling a cultural war between his community and the racist attitudes of non-Indigenous Territorians.

Abd Indigenous screenwriter Steven McGregor has weaved his magic with some classic mob lines that includes a scene where Brannock tells off an apprentice using the words ‘shut ya hole.”

Catch it on Netflix if you can – It’s a great yarn.