秘密之城 第一季 Secret City Season 1(2016)

简介：

在中国和美国之间的紧张局势升级，资深政治记者harriet dunkley 揭开连锁阴谋秘密的城市。

演员：

影评：

1. 女主和几位高层领导都很出色。根据畅销书改编，剧本扎实，悬念设置得恰如其分。第一次追澳剧，看开头还以为是对天朝无脑黑，一集过后就无法自拔了。在此就不剧透了。要吐槽的是天朝外交官和其夫人，怀疑演员会不会中文，蹩脚的不要不要。夫人的长相我就不说什么了，加长拉伸版的刘玉玲，看那一脸雀斑，应该是混血。几个中国女孩还不错，特水灵。

2. 每每在对话中听到“噢，悉尼, 首都啊。“这样的回应，我都会默默点头，保守Secret City名字的秘密。 跳桥－境内水深，自焚－红色火热： 功友在华自焚、 神秘男子被秘密红色爪牙开膛取出腹中sim卡这样的铺垫极大的迎合了"神韵"风格的审美，也许有过半的非神韵观众一开始已经开始翻了白眼... 和纸牌屋一样不乏怪腔怪调的华裔，但是竟然不缺四级普通话水平的澳洲官员角色。 这部六集澳剧似乎把悬念拉得过长, 不得用惊悚来填充，节奏一度也像极了秘密之城的生活节奏，也给你留了足够多的时间去揣摩与理解最大的悬念之一：女主前夫的性别和性向。集数的限制也让女主几度垂手就获得了关键的资源。 如对白所说，剧情外的澳洲的确也是夹在三明治中间的那块肉，仍在就生日日期进行内部辩论的她，总让人觉得在两块面包之间的角力下，表现得不知所措。而现实中的总理在大国总统面前的身体语言，似乎多少印证了这块肉究竟更服帖在哪块面包上。 虚构下的暧昧一定比现实过火，此剧也不忘提醒本土观众对渗透的过度恐惧也往往让人盲目。 本剧播出约一年后，某期以渗透、影响力为主题的新闻节目受到驻澳大使的严辞批评，指其捕风捉影、充满冷战思维和意识形态偏见，他指节目内容包含无端指责，其中的言论更损害互信。他还说这些“耸人听闻的报道”内容大体上是“陈词滥调”，“炒冷饭”。数月后，一位被指与中国商人暧昧不清的参议员受到媒体的反复的“炒饭”，终于耐不住不断升温的热锅，并在派系争斗中败下阵来，奇迹般的几起几落之后，最终不得不离开政坛另谋高就。 该节目的主要记者之一Chris Uhlmann曾写过的小说，是本剧的剧情的灵感来源之一。

3. 剧情不算复杂，主要就是两条线，跟《The Wire》的纷繁支线相比那是简单得多。节奏也还好，没有太多尿点，能够吸引人一直看下去。两条线上都有反转，但最大的反转从第一集就一开始埋了，却故意留到最后，也算是比较明显的亮点，虽然我到第四集的时候就已经猜出来了（难道是因为自己看美剧太多，已经能预测到常见套路了？）。唯一有点遗憾的是，以经典剧的标准来要求，总觉得少点什么，也许是惊爆点和惊爆程度稍微弱了一些？当然其中一些角色的表演也差强人意，仿中国口音也的确弱智，所以最后豆瓣和IMDB都在7.5分左右也算公平。

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   因为篇幅不长，我就把自己不看字幕纯听然后写故事梗概的习作贴在这里了，供没有完全看懂的人参考。可能会有一些错漏，因为没有刻意回去一一校听。

   Main line - illegal deal between Australia and China

   Australian student Sabin Robbs is arrested in China, after she protests for "free the Tibet", and burns herself with fire.

   Rogue agents between Australia and China have come to a deal that China can send operatives with diplomat immunity to arrest anti-China dissidents in Australia, in exchange for Sabin's coming back to Australia. But for some reasons, Sabin is still detained in a safe house as if in China.

   As an ASD operative, Dan White has been undercover in a group of anti-China dissidents, with name of his dead friend Max Dalgetty. They hack into systems of Australian government, and get the video file of ASD officer Dancer escorting Sabin back to Australia. Being chased, Dalgetty swallows the sim card with the encrypted video file, jumps off a bridge, and is drown to death.

   Harriet Dunkley is a senior political journalist in the Daily Nation. One morning, she sees Dalgetty's dead body by a lake shore, and starts to look into it, with her sensitive instinct. She gets to know a police Brimmer in the investigation. She also asks Kim, who has changed sex from her husband to her best friend, working in ASD for help. After realizing Dalgetty's phone has two sim cards, Kim locates the other one, and gets it back from a youth. She takes the sim card out of ASD, and tries to crack it by herself. After she watches the video and realizes Dancer was behind, Dancer has already been on his way to kill her.

   While digging into Dalgetty's death, Harriet runs into different dissidents in that group, as well as Zheng from China responsible for the dissident control operation. She writes a story about disappearance of anti-China dissidents by people from China on Australia soil, but could not stop those dissidents from being taken away in trucks anyway.

   With Harriet's story on Sabin and pressures from Sabin's mother, there is a formal escort of Sabin back to Australia. But Sabin knows she has been sent back here weeks ago, from sound of magpies around the safe house. From Sabin's descriptions, Harriet connects dots together, and suspects the illegal deal between both governments, for which she publishes a shocking story, risking herself from being put into prison.

   While Dancer is helping her to escape out of the country, she suspects Dan was an undercover operative, after listening to his past recording. After reading Dan's profile that Dancer gets for her, she now knows Dan is an ASD operative under Vaughn, and suspects Kim's death was a cover-up for Dan's death, most likely by Australia government itself. From a video recording of Vaughn's speech that Harriet provides, Sabin identifies the man in her escort was Dancer instead. Almost at the same time, Brimmer also confirms on this shocking finding, after finding out the sim card hidden by Kim in a motel, and watching the video file.

   Harriet drives a car with Dancer to where he killed Kim, and confronts him about what he has done. When Dancer is about to kill her, Brimmer comes to save her on time.

   Side line - Australia's pose between US and China

   Defense Minister Mal Paxton has a past history that he was arrested 20 years ago in China, and he has kept romantic relationship with Weng Meigui, who is now the wife of Chinese Ambassador for Australia. For Australia's strategy in south sea, there is apparent discrepancy between him and Attorney General Bailey. While he is suspected as a spy to China for the past history, he seems to work for best interest of Australia in his decisions. On the other hand, Bailey has been working closely with US, while spying on China.

   Bailey has come up with a Safer Australia act for unlimited surveillance and interrogation, in the name of national security, but Paxton turns it down without any hesitation. Later one day, the aircraft control system is attacked, and some airplanes start to lose radio contact for quite a while, before the communication comes back itself. Without any direct damage, it seems like a message to Australia government.

   By tracking IP address, the cyber attack seems to originate from China. But soon Paxton realizes it was Bailey's play to get the Safer Australia act passed more easily. After confronting the radar operator that has changed his testimony for the accident, Paxon asks the general working with Bailey to resign, with evidence of his working with US in the cyber attack. While he is still working to remove all people involved in the conspiracy, Bailey threatens him with fake testimony on Rankin's death, and manages to get the act passed eventually.

   Paxton confirms that Bailey has been spying on China, by sending a fake message from a burner phone to his phone about new assignment on Chief of Defense, for Weng to steal the information from his phone and pass it on, and getting the same fake message out of Bailey's mouth the other day. While he confronts her on the spying, she threatens him to resign tomorrow, with photos of both him and Weng as evidences of his spying for China. After being exposed, Weng is called back to China, but is killed by Zheng on her way to the airport.

   Ending - The enemy of my enemy is my friend

   With the newly effective Safer Australia act, Harriet is still arrested after going home. After his resignation, Paxton plans to fight back. As they share the same enemy, he asks to help her by paying her legal defense fee. New fights are yet to come in the next season.

4. 看完以及也搞不懂澳大利亚政府机构之间的关系，总检察长在处理各种事情的时候都有发言权？国防部长说要任命下一个国防部长？金所在的机构和她男朋友所在的单位是什么关系？他们极力掩盖自费女孩回国的原因又是是什么？另外中国大使看上像个乡镇企业老板，大使夫人鞋拔子脸，可能是老外喜欢的东方人长相。