# The Kettering Incident (2016)

> Fifteen years after a childhood disappearance in the forests outside her hometown, a traumatized woman returns to a community tearing itself apart over logging.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/56600

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 8
- Episode runtime: 51 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: mystery, drama
- Created by: Vincent Sheehan, Victoria Madden
- Network: showcase
- Cast: Elizabeth Debicki, Matthew Le Nevez, Henry Nixon, Alison Whyte, Anthony Phelan, Damon Gameau, Damien Garvey, Sacha Horler
- TMDB rating: 6.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4228802/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: brooding, tense, atmospheric, unsettling

## What critics say

Audience reception is mixed, with viewers rating the eight-episode mystery moderately well while finding its tensions and conflicts divisive.

## Synopsis

The Kettering Incident (2016) is an Australian mystery drama series created by Vincent Sheehan and Victoria Madden and aired on Showcase, a single-season limited series of eight episodes. Elizabeth Debicki stars as Dr. Anna Macy, who was found alone and bloodied in the forests outside Kettering at fourteen, hours after her best friend Gillian Baxter vanished during a day of play. Fifteen years later Anna returns to the small Tasmanian town, where she is drawn back into the old mystery as she reconnects with former acquaintances and confronts family tensions. Matthew Le Nevez plays Brian Dutch, a figure entangled in the town's present troubles, while Henry Nixon's Fergus McFadden and Alison Whyte's Deb Russell help anchor the community around her. The engine of the story is Anna's need to understand what truly happened in the forest, set against a town where the forests have been marked for logging and residents clash violently between environmental activists and local loggers. Each episode peels back another layer of memory and suspicion, building a brooding, unsettling atmosphere. Fans of Top of the Lake and The Killing will find resonance in its rural dread, buried secrets and fractured communities. The result is a tense, atmospheric limited series about the cost of memory and the pull of home.

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