SummaryInspired by real events, the lives of German-Australian flight attendant Sofie Werner (Yvonne Strahovski), Afghani Ameer (Fayssal Bazzi), as well as Clare Kowitz (Asher Keddie), the new general manager and Cam Sandford (Jai Courtney), a new guard at the Australian immigration detention centre, become entwined in this drama series co-created by To... Read More
Created By:Tony Ayres, Elise McCredie
Stateless
Season 1 Premiere:
Mar 1, 2020
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Generally Favorable
72
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Jul 8, 2020
100
There is much more to chew on than simply a story about refugees in Australia. Stateless is that rare show that demands a fairly sizable investment of your time; once you let it in your head, you may have a hard time getting it out.
Jul 2, 2020
90
A masterfully told, forcefully acted nightmare about life in a dirty, bureaucratically impacted limbo — this one fictional and in Australia, called Barton Detention Center.
User score
Generally Favorable
78% Positive
29 Ratings
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Jul 14, 2020
10
A masterpiece about failures of humanity...
Started watching without any context and was blown away by amazing story and the cast. Do yourself a favor and watch this mini series.
Jul 2, 2020
80
West and Blanchett are at society’s fringes, while anti-immigrant sentiment — as series-ending onscreen titles about the ongoing crisis of Australia’s detention centers, now placed offshore — is at the center of societies the world over. It’s a point “Stateless” makes crisply, one that gains in power from the hairpin-reversing manner through which the series arrives there, and one that makes it urgent viewing.
Jul 7, 2020
70
While the series, available in the United States on Netflix beginning Wednesday, is well made, well acted and well intentioned, it’s probably less interesting as a social-problem drama than as an example of what even the Cate Blanchetts of the world have to do to get a social-problem drama made.
Jul 8, 2020
63
There isn’t much of a debate to be had about the counter-productivity of the refugee system, or the gross use of force in maintaining it, and yet “Stateless” wants its characters to have these open debates for the sake of full-force drama. It's this type of “all lives matter” storytelling that constantly keeps “Stateless” out of touch with the humanity that’s truly at stake.
Jul 8, 2020
60
The show’s emphasis on Sofie—and in particular, the cult she was involved with—seems to come at the expense of its desire to shed light on Australian immigration.
Jul 6, 2020
40
It’s a case of good intentions undone by hackneyed and creaky execution, although solid performances and a sense of palpable outrage at least keep it from totally crumbling under the weight of its leaden drama.
Jul 16, 2020
3
While the series is interesting from a political standpoint and gives a look at australias horrible detention centers, this series fails as a tv series. The acting is bad, and the writing is boring. This would have been quite ok as a movie. But I got quite bored after 2 episodes and just wanted it to end or something interesting to happen. But the whole thing is just too stretched out. After reading about the true story that this series is based upon, also I was wondering why the series writers choose to change so much of the story. For example they changed the name of the main protagonist and also changed the name of the cult she joined from Kenja Communication to GOPA. Which is quite odd especially considering that GOPA is a real organisation too.
Production Company:
- Screen Australia
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
- The South Australian Film Corporation
- Matchbox Pictures
- Dirty Films
- Rising Sun Pictures
Initial Release Date:Mar 1, 2020
Number of seasons:1 Season
Rating:TV-MA
Awards
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards
• 13 Wins & 18 Nominations
ReFrame
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Australian Screen Editors
• 2 Nominations
