Entertainment Weekend: Bikies and Crocs and Snakes…Oh My! Crime Drama Troppo Season Two Premieres on Prime Video and Amazon Freevee July 25

Prime Video and Amazon Freevee have announced that the second season of the captivating Australian crime series “Troppo” will premiere on July 25. The series, starring Thomas Jane of “Boogie Nights” and Nicole Chamoun of “Safe Harbour,” returns to the fictional rural town of Crimson Lake in tropical Northern Australia, where yet another strange murder has occurred. All eight episodes will be released on July 25, 2024, exclusively on Prime Video and Amazon Freevee in the U.S., UK, Germany, and Austria.

Six months after Ted Conkaffey (Jane) and Amanda Pharrell (Chamoun) solved their first murder case, the unlikely duo is now investigating the bizarre local murder of a healing retreat leader with connections to an exotic drug ring and a ‘bikie’ gang. While Amanda tangles with an old enemy and finds a new love interest, Ted’s past stalks him and his family to Crimson Lake — with deadly consequences. Adapted for television by Yolanda Ramke, Troppo is based on the Crimson Lake books, a contemporary crime series set in Queensland, Australia, written by #1 New York Times best-selling author Candice Fox. Season Two of Troppo is inspired by the second book in the series, Redemption Point.

Returning cast includes Radha Mitchell (Kelly Conkaffey), Simon Lyndon (Ezra “Twist” Cole), Angela Punch McGregor (Dr. Val), Ling Cooper Tang (D.I. Hench), and Sara West (Brooke).

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Season Two will introduce Zindzi Okenyo (Deadloch) as Detective Sweeney, Ursula Yovich (The Royal Hotel) as Ronnie, Miah Madden (Paper Dolls) as Tayla, Ethan Lwin (Human Error) as Raph, Chloe Delle-Vedove as Lilly Conkaffey, and Brett Tucker (Station 19) as Colin.

Troppo is a Perpetual Entertainment and Beyond Entertainment production for studio AGC Television in association with Renegade Entertainment, with major production financing from AGC Studios in association with Screen Queensland and with support from the city of Gold Coast. Creator: Yolanda Ramke. Producer: Lisa Duff. Series producer: Karl Zwicky. Executive producers: Stuart Ford, Lourdes Diaz, and co-executive producer Matt Bankston (AGC Studios); Greg Quail and Lisa Duff (Perpetual Entertainment); Mikael Borglund and David Ogilvy (Beyond Entertainment); Thomas Jane and Courtney Lauren Penn (Renegade Entertainment); and Yolanda Ramke. 

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Amazon Freevee is a streaming video service with thousands of premium movies and TV shows, including Originals and free ad-supported (FAST) Channels, available anytime, for free.

  • Expansive Catalog: Amazon Freevee offers viewers ambitious Originals including Emmy-nominated docu-comedy series Jury Duty; crime drama Bosch: Legacy; Emmy-winning court program Judy Justice; Daytime Emmy-nominated drama series Neighbours; reality competition series The Goat; comedy series Dinner with the Parents; thriller series Boat Story; rom-com Puppy Love; reality design series Hollywood Houselift with Jeff Lewis; spy thriller Alex Rider; court program Tribunal Justice; performance special Monumental: Ellie Goulding at Kew Gardens;the sports docuseries UNINTERRUPTED’s Top Class: The Life and Times of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers and food competition series America’s Test Kitchen: The Next Generation. Combined with an always updating library of broadly appealing hit movies and TV shows across a wide selection of genres, and a catalog of more than 500 FAST Channels, including Judy Justice and Crime 360, Amazon Freevee delivers customers the content they would expect to see on a paid service
  • Free: The entire catalog of content on the service is free. No paid subscriptions necessary.
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