Total Control

Project Type: TV Drama Series

Year: 2021-2024

Screen NSW support: Production Finance / Made in NSW – TV Drama / Regional Filming Fund

Company: Blackfella Films

Directors: Rachel Perkins, Wayne Blair & Jub Clerc

Producers: Darren Dale, Miranda Dear

Production Details: IMDb page

Season 1: 

When Alex Iriving – a charismatic and contradictory Indigenous woman – stands up to a gunman on a rampage, the footage of her heroism goes viral. Amid the acclaim, Alex receives a surprising offer – a seat in the Senate. Can Alex trust the PM and her Party?

Season 2:

In the first season of Total Control, Alex Irving engineered a remarkable coup, unseating the Prime Minister and the woman who betrayed her, Rachel Anderson. But now she faces the ultimate test in a democratic system: the nation is going to the polls and Alex will have to face the judgement of the people. Alex’s passionate determination to make things better for her people appears doomed to failure. She turns her back on the entrenched ways of doing politics and declares she’ll stand for her home electorate as an Independent. As the pressure on Alex intensifies, she will have to make a choice, between her own integrity and her increasingly desperate and dangerous ambition.

Season 3:

It’s been two years since the explosive events of the second season and outsider turned kingmaker, Alex Irving, is completely at home in the nation’s capital. But what she’s about to discover will test her like never before. The think tank run by Rachel Anderson’s reprobate advisor Nick Pearce – the one that made substantial donations to their election campaigns – was financed with dirty money. Rachel fucked up. And when this bomb goes off, it will destroy them both. As Alex and Rachel battle to control their political destinies, they will uncover the shocking truth about who was behind the dark money. And why. Can Alex achieve the change she’s been fighting for or will it cost her everything?