The Kettering Incident (Foxtel)

One teenage girl disappears and another is left traumatised after they see mysterious lights in the forest outside Kettering, a small logging town in Tasmania. Fifteen years later Dr Anna Macey has buried her trauma and is living in London. Unfortunately she has been having blackouts that leave her with lost hours, migraines and nosebleeds. One day she wakes up in a hire car outside Kettering with no memory of how she got there from London. A bewildering array of characters is introduced and most of them seem to be corrupt, sinister or disturbed. Heavy supernatural symbolism is less than subtle, underlined by the gorgeous but ominous scenery. Are the terrible things happening in Kettering the result of alien visitation, or just the outcome of terrible past acts by a group of corrupt locals? And just what is the role of Jens, the charismatic leader of the greenies protesting the logging? There is no humour to leaven the heavy atmosphere; Elizabeth Debicki never cracks a smile as Anna, a woman admittedly beset by tragedy. A solid cast of well-known actors make the best they can of a strange and meandering tale that is ambitious and interesting, but ultimately unsatisfying.