A host of Australian talent including Anna Torv, Michael Dorman and Sam Corlett are currently starring in Territory, a six-part Netflix epic about the battle to take control of the world's largest cattle ranch. The series, which was created by Timothy Lee (Mystery Road, Bump) and Ben Davies (Bondi Rescue, The First Inventors, Outback Ringer), begins with the death of Daniel Lawson, the heir to Marianne Station, and follows the ensuing dogfight as external parties battle to take control. But the Lawsons, for all of their determination, are a fractured group, with outsiders seeking to exploit their long-standing grievances and secrets for their own gain.
Speaking to GQ Australia about working on Territory, Corlett said: "The people involved, like Timothy Lee, the writer, dove in straight away. "We spoke about our own experiences and family dynamics, and what we wanted to heal from our own family lines. And he was also an avid student of Shakespeare and the Arthurian myths, so it did feel like it was a story with that antiquity.
"I looked at Henry IV, and then also the Arthurian myths with the love triangle that went on with Sharnie, and me, and Rich. "And then King Lear was very specific to [the relationship between] Robert [Taylor, who plays patriarch Colin Lawson] and Michael [Dorman, who plays his eldest son Graham Lawson]." He added: "I'd never seen that kind of tapestry of myth and story told in a very grounded Australian way.
" Territory is certainly not short of action, b.
