Mystery Road – seasons 1 & 2 were excellent.
Mystery Road: Origin is season 3. A prequel. Good — but not as good as the first two.
The backstory of Mark Coles Smith as Jay Swan, a young detective in the Aussie outback 1999.
Later, in the other two seasons, Aaron Pedersen plays Jay Swan.
My favourite character, by far, is Grace Chow as Cindy Cheung, a young, enthusiastic, and positive police officer. She was truly the only one I could cheer for consistently.
The acting is very strong. Brave.
But the story line simply too hard to follow, for me. At the end of the series I had to search out explainers.
I probably won’t watch season 4.
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Rick McCharles 
I’m so disappointed in the current season of Mystery Road. that I won’t be watching the rest of the episodes. The previous series were riveting but in the current series, the acting is stilted and the dialogue is weak and unbelievable. Can we please have an interesting series without a history lesson?