# Pine Gap (2018)

> Australian and American intelligence analysts at a secretive joint facility navigate global security stakes and strained alliance loyalties.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/70459

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 6
- Episode runtime: 60 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, mystery
- Created by: Felicity Packard, Greg Haddrick
- Network: ABC TV
- Cast: Parker Sawyers, Jacqueline McKenzie, Steve Toussaint, Tess Haubrich, Stephen Curry, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Mark Leonard Winter, Sachin Joab
- TMDB rating: 7.2/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7371868/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Tone: tense, measured, cerebral, claustrophobic

## What critics say

Audience reception is positive, with viewers appreciating the tense intelligence-agency setting and the portrayal of the Australian and American analysts' uneasy partnership.

## Synopsis

Pine Gap (2018) is an Australian intelligence drama series created by Felicity Packard and Greg Haddrick for ABC TV. Across a single six-episode season of roughly sixty minutes each, the story follows a team of Australian and American analysts working inside one of the world's most important and secretive joint intelligence facilities. Gus Thompson (Parker Sawyers) and Kath Sinclair (Jacqueline McKenzie) anchor the ensemble, with Ethan James (Steve Toussaint) and Jacob Kitto (Stephen Curry) among the other principal figures. The engine of the show is the daily grind of intercepting, interpreting and weighing intelligence, where each decision carries global consequences and the working relationship between the two nations is never simple. Its strength lies in measured, quiet tension rather than action set pieces, with the mood built from office-bound suspicion, careful dialogue and the weight of classified secrets. Viewers who enjoy the alliance politics of Spooks, the procedural restraint of The Night Manager, or the institutional paranoia of Homeland will find a familiar appeal here. The series is a serialized, single-season drama with an adult register and a grounded sense of how real geopolitics is conducted behind closed doors.

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