The Lovers is a romantic, funny, fight-y love story about two people who appear to be utterly wrong for each other - yet may just be utterly right. Over time, their undeniable love for each other leads them to face certain truths... truths they would rather have kept hidden from themselves and the outside world. And truths that could drive them apart.
When dentist Suzy Darling (Claudia Karvan) leaves her egotistical husband (Rodger Corser) and moves with her children into an apartment, she is dismayed to realize that their new home is occupied by the ghost of Henry Mallet (Matt King), a '70s punk-rock star--and only she can see him. "Winning balance of romance, comedy, and the supernatural" -The Age.
When mother of four Wilma McCann is found murdered near her home in October 1975, DCS Dennis Hoban leads the investigation but is frustrated in his efforts to find her killer. Alongside this we follow another mother, Emily Jackson, as she apprehensively turns to sex work to rescue her family from financial hardship.
The man she trusts the most is the one she should fear the most. When preeminent psychiatrist Dr. Colin Bouwer (Mark Mitchinson, Mystery Road, The Gulf) puts a murderous plan into action to kill his wife (Nathalie Boltt, Riverdale), only a young physician (Craig Hall, A Place to Call Home) suspects the truth in this gripping New Zealand drama based on the true story of a nearly perfect crime.
Starring Rebecca Gibney (Winter) and Charles Edwards (The Crown), this dramedy follows two unlikely city slickers who inherit a failing vineyard in rural New Zealand. Despite neither having ever done a hard day's work in their lives and both despising the other, they must somehow make the vineyard successful so they can sell up, split up, and get out of there.