| One Lane Bridge | |
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| Created by | Pip Hall Philip Smith |
| Written by | Pip Hall |
| Directed by | Peter Burger |
| Starring | Dominic Ona-Ariki Joel Tobeck Alison Bruce |
| Composer | Claire Cowan |
| Country of origin | New Zealand |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
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| Release | 20 April 2020 |
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One Lane Bridge is a New Zealand crime drama television series, premiering on TVNZ 1 in 2020. The series stars Dominic Ona-Ariki as Ariki Davis, a newcomer detective, Joel Tobeck as Stephen Tremaine, his superior, and Alison Bruce as Tremaine's wife, Lois. The show follows events around the latest in a mysterious chain of deaths which have occurred on a one-lane bridge near the town of Queenstown.[1] The series is also notable for its inclusion of aspects of Māori spirituality as a core part of the plot, such as the notion of matakite, roughly equivalent to divination.[2]
The series was filmed primarily in Queenstown and its surrounding area, with the eponymous bridge located over the Dart River / Te Awa Whakatipu near the township of Glenorchy, approximately 45 kilometres (28 mi) northwest of Queenstown. Other filming locations include the Queenstown waterfront and areas around the nearby town of Arrowtown.[3]
One Lane Bridge premiered in April 2020 on TVNZ 1, in the middle of New Zealand's first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. The show was met with mixed reviews, with Stuff's Malcolm Hopwood describing the characters as "tight-lipped, charmless, one-dimensional people"[4] and the Spinoff's Catherine McGregor saying that the writing of the series "fails to live up to the drama of its breathtaking location".[5] Stuff's James Croot was more positive, describing season 1 as "an engrossing, evocative, supernatural-tinged detective drama, a Central Otago-set Kiwi answer to Scandi-Noir complete with terrific performances from a well-assembled ensemble."[6]
- ^ "About One Lane Bridge". www.tvnz.co.nz. TVNZ. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- ^ Best, Edison. Maori Religion and Mythology, Part 1. Wellington: A R Shearer. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Downes, Siobhan (12 August 2021). "The stars of One Lane Bridge share their favourite Queenstown finds". Stuff. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
- ^ Hopwood, Malcolm (23 April 2020). "A home for charmless people at least has decent scenery". Stuff. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ McGregor, Catherine (28 April 2020). "Review: New Zealand murder mystery One Lane Bridge is beautiful but blank". The Spinoff. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Croot, James (15 August 2021). "One Lane Bridge: After 2020's finale fumble, TVNZ's Central Otago mystery is back". Stuff.co.nz. Stuff. Retrieved 17 November 2021.