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2 | [[caption-width-right:553:[[Creator/RaymondChandler "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean..."]]]] |
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4 | ->'''[[HardboiledDetective Jack Irish]]''': I don't practice law much anymore. |
5 | ->'''[[IntrepidReporter Linda Hillier]]''': What ''do'' you do? |
6 | ->'''Jack''': I live off my wits. Gamble, drink. |
7 | ->'''Linda''': Then you'll be keeping pretty much the same company. |
8 | ->'''Jack''': Oh no, it's definitely a notch up since then. |
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10 | ''Jack Irish'' is an Australian television series based on the novels by Peter Temple, which aired in Australia via the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It starred Creator/GuyPearce as Jack Irish, a former lawyer, debt collector, and occasional [[AmateurSleuth amatuer]] [[HardboiledDetective private investigator]]. The series also starred Creator/MartaDusseldorp as IntrepidReporter Linda Hellier, Creator/ShaneJacobson as reluctant FriendOnTheForce Barry Tregear, Creator/DamienRichardson as former colleague Drew Greer, Creator/RoyBilling as Jack's boss and notorious racing identity Harry Strang, and Creator/AaronPedersen as Strang's right-hand man Cal Delray. Initially, three TV movies were released from 2012 to 2014, directly adapting the first three novels. A full series was subsequently produced, with three seasons airing from 2016 to 2021. |
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12 | [[WordOfGod According to ABC, the TV show is not connected to the television movies that have previously aired in the same network]].[[note]]To be honest, some of the history of some relationships already established in the TV series between Jack and most of the recurring characters can be best viewed in the TV movies.[[/note]] |
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15 | !!The show provides examples of the following tropes: |
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17 | * ActorAllusion: The ColdOpen of the final episode is similar to a scene in Film/TheTimeMachine2002: Guy Pearce's character imagines a happy life with his wife and two children. |
18 | * ChurchOfHappyology: The Way of the Church is a shady Christian church in Australia that doesn't hesitate to use cover ups to prevent anything embarrassing from biting them in the back. |
19 | * DoItYourselfThemeTune: Creator/GuyPearce sings a cover of "God Will Cut You Down" for the opening credits of the series. |
20 | * EurekaMoment: Jack gets these both from the Fitzroy Youth Club and Harry. |
21 | * FarEastAsianTerrorists: The Muslim radicals in Mindanao when they shot up an entire village in the first season. |
22 | * FreezeFrameBonus: In a G-Mail page, the death of Lakshmi Agarwal was recorded to be in 2015, which is when the first season started. The second season's first episode showed a title card of three years later, making in 2018 when the second season starts. |
23 | * FromBadToWorse: Jack not only investigates the death of a couple of international students in the second season, but he [[spoiler:realizes that a doctor he knows has her husband funds a scientist who goes rogue and hides before he's killed.]] |
24 | * MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: The missing person's case and frameup job done to Jack leads him to investigate the case related to the Philippines in the first season. |
25 | ** The second season starts with a vehicle accident after a foreign student somehow wanders into its path. |
26 | * PoliceAreUseless: The Victoria Police weren't able to get major clues to solve a missing person's case, which is why Jack Irish was recruited to solve it. |
27 | * ShownTheirWork: Since some of the scenes were shot in the Philippines in the first season, you can expect to hear correct and proper Tagalog. |
28 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Due to Jack stumbling onto a motel room with the dead corpse of a kidnapper and a loaded weapon nearby when VP officers raided it, it wouldn't be that hard to assume that he had something to do with it. |
29 | ** During a reception party hosted by the Australian embassy, a guest notes that the plan to create a power plant may not solve tensions between native Muslim and Christian communities since the latter would mostly benefit from it. |
30 | * TheManBehindTheMan: Via Crucis, a shadowy group consisting of persons from the Way of the Church, Victoria-based politicians, businessmen and other prominent [=VIPs=]. They're behind the massacre in Mindanao in trying to buy up land there by using a bogus bank to skirt Filipino banking laws and deploying contractors overseas. The culprits were trying to emulate American defense contractors like Booz Allen and Black Water. |
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