Tangle | |
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Genre | Drama |
Created by | John Edwards Imogen Banks Fiona Seres |
Written by | Fiona Seres Tony McNamara Judi McCrossin |
Directed by | Jessica Hobbs Matthew Saville Stuart McDonald Emma Freeman Michael James Rowland |
Starring | Justine Clarke Ben Mendelsohn Catherine McClements Matt Day Kat Stewart Joel Tobeck Don Hany Eva Lazzaro Blake Davis Lincoln Younes Kick Gurry |
Theme music composer | Bryony Marks |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 22 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers | Hugh Marks (Southern Star) Kim Vecera (Showtime) |
Producers | John Edwards Imogen Banks |
Production locations | Melbourne Kew, Abbotsford, Collins Street, Melbourne |
Editors | Steve Evans Peter Carrodus |
Running time | 50–55 minutes |
Production company | Southern Star |
Original release | |
Network | Showcase |
Release | 1 October 2009 – 29 April 2012 |
Tangle is an Australian drama series for the Showcase subscription television channel. It focuses on the tangled lives of two generations of two families. [1] Tangle was filmed in Melbourne and first screened on 1 October 2009. [2] [3] It is written by Fiona Seres, Tony McNamara and Judi McCrossin, and directed by Jessica Hobbs, Matthew Saville and Stuart McDonald. [4] There were three seasons.
Tangle revolves around the intertwined lives of the Kovac and Williams families and their network of friends and extended family in and around Kew in Melbourne. Nat Manning (Kat Stewart) returned to her home town of Melbourne after ten years in the United Kingdom on the minor celebrity circuit. She created ripples and then waves in the lives of two clans already struggling under the weight of their myriad secrets. Ally (Justine Clarke) is the devoted wife of an aggressive and arrogant builder Vince (Ben Mendelsohn), mother of Romeo and Gigi (Lincoln Younes and Eva Lazarro), who is happy to have her sister Nat back. Politician Tim (Joel Tobeck), now a rising star in the State Parliament of Victoria, had an affair 15 years ago with Nat, and as a result, Nat became pregnant and gave birth to Max, now 15. Tim and his wife Christine (Catherine McClements) patched up their marriage and successfully fought for custody of Max (Blake Davis) and do not welcome her return to their lives. Meanwhile Ally’s husband Vince is having a torrid affair with divorcee Em, and his friend, a doctor Gabriel (Matt Day) has a secret lust for Ally. Gigi finally informs her mum Ally of Vince's affair, which had become an open secret due to numerous slipups by Vince. Ally confronts Vince in the Windsor Hotel. Vince tries to patch up his relationship with his family. A major property deal on a hospital site had been scuppered by Tim, and he had lost his friendship with Gabriel after the latter declared his love for Ally. Vince is unexpectedly killed in a random auto accident at the end of the series, leaving a cliffhanger.
Meanwhile, the older children, who all attend the same school in Melbourne's affluent Eastern Suburbs, are bound together when Max finds the dead body of a runner, who we see stumbling off the road at Yarra Bend in Melbourne and fatally hitting his head. Rather than report the death to the police, Max texts a photo to his friends, and they take the man's wallet and keys. Romeo and his friend, also the son of a state politician, cut off one of the man's fingers as a trophy, and Romeo hides it. His little sister finds it, informs on her brother, thus implicating the parents in the coverup. The friends, egged on mainly by Romeo, locate and visit his house (where he lived alone) over several nights, until they are found there by the police and heavily questioned and cautioned. A scandal is not what parent Tim needs, as he becomes a prominent public figure as State Minister for Health (he displaces a predecessor and terminally ill friend Pat, who commits suicide). The teenagers suffer less major setbacks in the second half of the series, which focuses on Max's growing relationship with his mother, Nat, the discovery of teen sex and young love, and how to deal with their parents whose lives are falling apart.
With Vince now gone, Vince’s secretive brother Joe Kovac (Kick Gurry) returns hoping to become a part of a family he was never allowed into. Spiros Georgiades (Don Hany) is recruited by the party as a political adviser to Tim, and develops an attraction to Christine. Tim makes a bid for the top job of Premier, but is sidelined and then kicked out of the party after a press conference where he is too honest about the actions of his colleagues. He takes an offered executive job in Singapore to 'lay low' for a while. Ally and her children, Romeo and Gigi, appear in a new house in Bayside. Nat meets a young, successful man and Gabriel's new but short-lived girlfriend Sophie looks a lot like Ally (according to Nat).
Ally sheds some of love's illusions and begins to see life possibilities beyond her family and Gabriel. Both Romeo and Gigi need her less than she'd imagined, but in different ways, as they build their own lives. When Max moves away to stay with his biological mother Nat (and her sister, Ally), Christine flirts with a parallel life at odds with all previous certainties. Gabriel and Ally finally get together. Nat reconnects with the sinister Michael Chubbievsky, a suspected drug dealer. Nat's chaos is the one constant. [5]
Actor | Role | First Episode | Last Episode |
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Justine Clarke | Ally Kovac | 1.01 | 3.06 |
Kat Stewart | Nat Manning | 1.01 | 3.06 |
Catherine McClements | Christine Williams | 1.01 | 3.06 |
Joel Tobeck | Tim Williams | 1.01 | 3.06 |
Matt Day | Gabriel Lucas | 1.02 | 3.06 |
Don Hany | Spiros Georgiades | 2.01 | 3.06 |
Blake Davis | Max Williams | 1.01 | 3.06 |
Lincoln Younes | Romeo Kovac | 1.01 | 3.06 |
Eva Lazzaro | Gigi Kovac | 1.01 | 3.06 |
Georgia Flood | Charlotte Barker | 1.01 | 3.06 |
Kick Gurry | Joe Kovac | 2.01 | 3.06 |
Ben Mendelsohn | Vince Kovac | 1.01 | 1.10 |
Lucia Mastrantone | Em Barker | 1.01 | 1.09 |
Showcase renewed Tangle for a third series on 12 December 2010 and production began in June 2011, ending in August.
Tangle is filmed in and around the city of Melbourne, usually set within the more affluent suburbs of the city. The new house in which Ally and her children move to in season three is in Black Rock, and Tim and Christine's house is in Kew. Some other locations that have been used to film throughout the series are:
Tangle was rerun on Foxtel's SoHo in Australia. [6] In the Republic of Ireland, the series was broadcast on RTÉ Two. It was shown in numerous countries throughout the Asia–Pacific on Australia Network. In New Zealand, it was broadcast on TV One. In Poland, it was screened on Viacom Blink!. In Canada, it was aired on Super Channel.
The series was never broadcast in the United Kingdom, but did however become available to stream on Amazon Prime Video from 5 April 2019. [7] It is also available to stream on Scottish service STV Player which is accessible throughout the UK. [8] The series is also available to stream via Amazon Prime Video in the United States, [9] It began streaming on Netflix in Australia on 7 June 2021. [10]
DVD title | Date Released | No. of Discs | ACB rating | Runtime | Distributor |
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Series 1 | 15 April 2010 [11] | 3 | M | 534 minutes | Roadshow Entertainment |
Series 2 | 18 November 2010 [12] | 2 | MA15+ | 303 minutes | |
Series 3 | 3 October 2012 [13] | 2 | MA15+ | 317 minutes | |
Series 1–3 | 5 December 2012 [14] | 7 | MA15+ | 1154 minutes | |
Seasons 1–3(repackaged) | 21 April 2021 [15] | 7 | MA15+ | 1154 minutes | Via Vision |
Year | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref(s) |
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AACTA Awards | ||||
2010 | Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama | Catherine McClements | Won | [16] |
Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama | Justine Clarke | Nominated | ||
Best Television Drama Series | Tangle (Season 2) | Nominated | ||
Best Screenplay in Television | Fiona Seres (for 2x5) | Nominated | ||
Best Direction in Television | Emma Freeman (for 2x6) | Nominated | ||
2013 | Best Television Drama Series | Tangle (season 3) | Nominated | [17] |
ASTRA Awards | ||||
2010 | Most Outstanding Drama | Tangle (Season 1) | Nominated | [18] |
Most Outstanding Performance by an Actor: Male | Ben Mendelsohn | Won | ||
Most Outstanding Performance by an Actor: Female | Justine Clarke | Won | ||
Most Outstanding Performance by an Actor: Male | Matt Day | Nominated | ||
Most Outstanding Performance by an Actor: Female | Catherine McClements | Nominated | ||
Best New Talent | Eva Lazzaro | Nominated | ||
2011 | Most Outstanding Drama | Tangle (Season 2) | Nominated | [19] [20] |
Most Outstanding Performance By An Actor: Male | Don Hany | Nominated | ||
Most Outstanding Performance by an Actor: Female | Justine Clarke | Nominated | ||
Most Outstanding Performance by an Actor: Female | Catherine McClements | Won | ||
2013 | Most Outstanding Drama | Tangle (Season 3) | Won | [21] |
Most Outstanding Performance By An Actor: Male | Lincoln Younes | Won | ||
Most Outstanding Performance By An Actor: Male | Dan Wyllie | Nominated | ||
Most Outstanding Performance By An Actor: Female | Justine Clarke | Nominated | ||
Most Outstanding Performance By An Actor: Female | Catherine McClements | Won | ||
Most Outstanding Performance By An Actor: Female | Eva Lazzaro | Nominated | ||
Australian Director' Guild Awards | ||||
2010 | Best Direction in a Television Drama Series | Stuart McDonald (for 1x9) | Won | [22] |
IF Awards | ||||
2010 | "Out of the Box" Award | Eva Lazzaro | Nominated | |
2011 | "Out of the Box" Award | Blake Davis | Nominated | |
Logie Awards | ||||
2010 | Most Outstanding Drama Series, Miniseries or Telemovie | Tangle (Season 1) | Nominated | [23] |
Most Outstanding Actor | Ben Mendelsohn | Nominated | ||
Most Outstanding Actress | Justine Clarke | Nominated | ||
Most Outstanding New Talent | Eva Lazzaro | Nominated | ||
2011 | Most Outstanding Actress | Justine Clarke | Nominated | [24] |
Most Popular Actor | Don Hany (also for Offspring ) | Nominated | ||
2013 | Most Outstanding Drama Series | Tangle (Season 3) | Nominated | [25] |
Most Outstanding Actress | Catherine McClements | Nominated | ||
NSW Premier's Literary Awards | ||||
2010 | Script Writing | Fiona Seres (for 1x1) | Nominated | |
Screen Music Awards | ||||
2010 | Best Television Theme | Bryony Marks | Nominated | |
Best Music in a Television Series or Serial | Bryony Marks (for 1x1) | Nominated | ||
2011 | Best Music in a Television Series or Serial | Bryony Marks (for 2x6) | Nominated |
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