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Secret City
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Anna Torv
Harriet Dunkley
12 eps
Justin Smith
William Vaughn
12 eps
Dan Wyllie
Mal Paxton
6 eps
Sacha Horler
Ludie Sypek
10 eps
Marcus Graham
Andrew Griffiths
12 eps
Aleks Mikic
Thomas Maher
12 eps
Jacki Weaver
Catriona Bailey
9 eps
Alan Dale
Martin Toohey
6 eps
Laura Gordon
Caroline Treloar
6 eps
Louisa Mignone
Mina Almasi
6 eps
Alex Dimitriades
Charles Dancer
6 eps
Danielle Cormack
Karen Koutoufides
6 eps
Damon Herriman
Kim Gordon
6 eps
Andrew McFarlane
Lockwood
6 eps
Eugenia Yuan
Weng Meigui
6 eps
Matt Zeremes
Sean Brimmer
6 eps
Benedict Hardie
Declan Boyd
6 eps
Robert Rabiah
Sami Almasi
6 eps
Don Hany
Ewan Garrity
6 eps
Rob Collins
Joseph Sullivan
6 eps
David Roberts
General McAuliffe
6 eps
Joel Tobeck
Jim Hellier
6 eps
Tom Wren
Alex Berezin
6 eps
Jeanette Cronin
Mrs. Hobbs
6 eps
Alice Chaston
Sabine Hobbs
6 eps
Huw Higginson
Reardon
6 eps
Sean Taylor
Wheeler
6 eps
Ferdinand Hoang
Ambassador Dhao
6 eps
Benedict Samuel
Felix Crawford
6 eps
Kate Mulvany
Ronnie
6 eps
Miranda Tapsell
Sasha Rose
6 eps
Gary Young
Zheng
6 eps
Mekhi Phifer
Ambassador Moreton
5 eps
Frederick Du Rietz
Robbie Lambert
5 eps
Christopher Kirby
Kip Buchanan
5 eps
Michael Denkha
Michael Lavelle
5 eps
Anni Finsterer
Rear Admiral Hartzig
5 eps
Timothy Parsons
Max Dalgety
5 eps
Laura Brent
Dr. Crick
5 eps
Duncan Fellows
Caucasian ASIO Guard
5 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Secret City actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Secret City reads strongest on Character Depth, Emotional Weight and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Beneath the placid facade of Canberra, amidst rising tension between China and America, senior political journalist Harriet Dunkley uncovers a secret city of interlocked conspiracies, putting innocent lives in danger including her own.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 12 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
20166 episodes
8.0IMDbA student's protest leads to a government scandal that has personal and professional repercussions for one of Australia's toughest journalists.
Best episode · S01E05 Ghosts in the Machine
Season 2 · Complete
Under the Eagle
20196 episodes
8.4IMDbHaving left journalism behind, Harriet Dunkley strives to unravel a complex government conspiracy from the inside.
Best episode · S02E03 Pale Horse
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S02E03
Pale Horse
Prime Minister Garrity discovers the existence of a classified military program. Meanwhile, Harriet learns the truth of Mina's secret criminal activities.
S02E06
Two Cheers for Democracy
The dogs of war are circling in the corridors of power, urging a reluctant PM to retaliate against Pakistan. Can Harriet stop the march to war in time?
S02E01
Run Little Rabbit
Harriet Dunkley is out on parole and eager to leave the swamp of Canberra politics behind. But, before she can escape, she is ensnared in a cover-up with Catriona Bailey's fingerprints all over it.
S01E06
The Light on the Hill
Harriet’s story on missing Chinese dissidents may have embarrassed Beijing into returning Sabine Hobbs to Canberra, but the connections to Australian intelligence and the murder remain hidden. The path she chooses will blow apart the plans of everyone – Bailey, Toohey and Paxton.
S01E05
Ghosts in the Machine
Determined to become hunter rather than prey, Harriet convinces ASIO agent Charles Dancer to pursue her attacker and the murderer while she investigates how a Chinese assassin can operate in Australia with apparent impunity.
S01E03
Beware the Jabberwock
A shocking murder leaves Harriet shattered but angry. Australian intelligence agencies are determined to shut down the story, however, Harriet has been deliberately left a clue that only she will understand and as she pursues the trail of secrets, finds the pieces of several different puzzles forming a larger picture. People she should be able to trust are revealed as determined enemies but she discovers an unlikely ally.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S02E06
Two Cheers for Democracy
S02E05
For Whom the Bell Tolls
S02E04
Broken Bird
S02E03
Pale Horse
S02E02
The War Zone
S02E01
Run Little Rabbit
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Carly HeatonExecutive Producer
- Penny ChapmanExecutive Producer
- Joanna WernerProducer
Writing
- Steve LewisWriter
- Chris UhlmannWriter
- Belinda ChaykoWriter
- Matt CameronWriter
Direction
- Emma FreemanDirector
- Daniel NettheimDirector
- Tony KrawitzDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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