Dead Lucky (TV series)

Dead Lucky is a four-part Australian crime thriller drama series, written and created by Ellie Beaumont and Drew Proffitt, that broadcast on SBS from 25 July 2018. The series, produced by Subtext Pictures and directed by David Caesar, follows Grace Gibbs (Rachel Griffiths), a detective obsessed with catching an armed robber who murdered one of her junior officers; her new trainee, Charlie (Yoson An), blames for the death of his best friend.^[1] The story encompasses a share-house of international students, a pair of corrupt shop owners, a grieving widow, and a gunman, who all collide, leaving one dead and another missing.^[2]

Dead Lucky
Genre	Crime drama
Written by	Ellie Beaumont Drew Proffitt
Directed by	David Ceasar
Starring	Rachel Griffiths Yoson An Mojean Aria Ian Meadows Rhys Muldoon Anna Samson Xana Tang Matt Nable Sara West Aldo Mignone Sarah Thamin Tessa de Josselin Annie Maynard Shameer Birges
Composer	Michael Yezerski
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	4
Production
Executive producers	Ellie Beaumont Sue Masters Drew Proffitt Greg Sitch Nina Stevenson
Producer	Diane Haddon
Cinematography	Matthew Temple
Editor	Katrina Barker
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	Subtext Pictures
Original release
Network	SBS
Release	25 July (2018-07-25) – 15 August 2018 (2018-08-15)

The series is one of three commissions made by SBS in 2017, alongside fellow crime thrillers Sunshine and Safe Harbour.^[2] The series was acquired by AMC Networks for premium subscription streaming service SundanceNow, which will screen the series in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and German-speaking territories in Europe.^[3] In the United States, the series premiered in full on 20 September 2018.^[4]

Cast

• Rachel Griffiths as DS Grace Gibbs
• Yoson An as Charlie Fung
• Mojean Aria as Mani Dalir
• Ian Meadows as Corey Baxter
• Rhys Muldoon as Richard
• Anna Samson as Anna Jamison
• Xana Tang as Bo-Lin
• Matt Nable as Matt O’Reilly
• Sara West as Leah Baxter
• Aldo Mignone as Eduardo Torres
• Sarah Thamin as Mary Ho
• Tessa de Josselin as Jess Roberts
• Annie Maynard as Penny Weir
• Shameer Birges as Marco Varma
• Simon Burke as Tony Hodge
• Brooke Satchwell as Claire
• Karen Pang as Mrs. Fung
• Jon-Claire Lee as Mr. Fung
• Julia Savage as Edie O'Reilly
• Justine Clarke as Erica Hodge
• Natalie Saleeba as Imogen Lander
• Brad McMurray as Ivan Milski
• Takhi Saul as Tommy Meeky
• Tony Cogin as Ian Jamison
• Susana Downes as Emily Tran
• Jude Hyland as Toby Diago
• Patrick Ryan as Paramedic
• Ling-Hsueh Tang as Margaret

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Australia viewers (millions)
1	"Episode 1"	David Caesar	Ellie Beaumont & Drew Proffitt	25 July 2018 (2018-07-25)	N/A
2	"Episode 2"	David Caesar	Ellie Beaumont & Drew Proffitt	1 August 2018 (2018-08-01)	N/A
3	"Episode 3"	David Caesar	Ellie Beaumont & Drew Proffitt	8 August 2018 (2018-08-08)	N/A
4	"Episode 4"	David Caesar	Ellie Beaumont & Drew Proffitt	15 August 2018 (2018-08-15)	N/A

Home media

Umbrella Entertainment Released The Complete Series on DVD in April 2019.

Title	Ep #	Discs	Region 4 (Australia)	Special Features	Distributors
Dead Lucky: The Complete Series	4	2	3 April 2019	None	Umbrella Entertainment