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  • 2020
  • TV-MA
  • Netflix
  • 2020
  • TV-MA
  • Netflix

Summary Inspired by real events, the lives of German-Australian flight attendant Sofie Werner (Yvonne Strahovski), Afghani Ameer (Fayssal Bazzi), as well as Clare Kowitz (Asher Keddie), the new general manager and Cam Sandford (Jai Courtney), a new guard at the Australian immigration detention centre, become entwined in this drama series co-crea...

Created By: Tony Ayres, Elise McCredie

  • 2020
  • TV-MA
  • Netflix
  • 2020
  • TV-MA
  • Netflix

Stateless

Season 1 Premiere: Mar 1, 2020
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
72
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 34 User Ratings
7.4
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Summary Inspired by real events, the lives of German-Australian flight attendant Sofie Werner (Yvonne Strahovski), Afghani Ameer (Fayssal Bazzi), as well as Clare Kowitz (Asher Keddie), the new general manager and Cam Sandford (Jai Courtney), a new guard at the Australian immigration detention centre, become entwined in this drama series co-crea...

Created By: Tony Ayres, Elise McCredie

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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30% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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70% Positive
14 Reviews
30% Mixed
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0% Negative
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100
Jul 8, 2020
There is much more to chew on than simply a story about refugees in Australia. Stateless is that rare show that demands a fairly sizable investment of your time; once you let it in your head, you may have a hard time getting it out.
By Aaron Barnhart FULL REVIEW
90
Jul 2, 2020
A masterfully told, forcefully acted nightmare about life in a dirty, bureaucratically impacted limbo — this one fictional and in Australia, called Barton Detention Center.
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 34 User Ratings
7.4
76% Positive
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12% Mixed
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12% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 34 User Ratings
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76% Positive
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12% Mixed
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12% Negative
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80
Jul 2, 2020
West and Blanchett are at society’s fringes, while anti-immigrant sentiment — as series-ending onscreen titles about the ongoing crisis of Australia’s detention centers, now placed offshore — is at the center of societies the world over. It’s a point “Stateless” makes crisply, one that gains in power from the hairpin-reversing manner through which the series arrives there, and one that makes it urgent viewing.
By Daniel D'Addario FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 7, 2020
While the series, available in the United States on Netflix beginning Wednesday, is well made, well acted and well intentioned, it’s probably less interesting as a social-problem drama than as an example of what even the Cate Blanchetts of the world have to do to get a social-problem drama made.
By Mike Hale FULL REVIEW
63
Jul 8, 2020
There isn’t much of a debate to be had about the counter-productivity of the refugee system, or the gross use of force in maintaining it, and yet “Stateless” wants its characters to have these open debates for the sake of full-force drama. It's this type of “all lives matter” storytelling that constantly keeps “Stateless” out of touch with the humanity that’s truly at stake.
By Nick Allen FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 8, 2020
The show’s emphasis on Sofie—and in particular, the cult she was involved with—seems to come at the expense of its desire to shed light on Australian immigration.
By Sonia Saraiya FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 6, 2020
It’s a case of good intentions undone by hackneyed and creaky execution, although solid performances and a sense of palpable outrage at least keep it from totally crumbling under the weight of its leaden drama.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
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Production Company:
  • Screen Australia
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
  • The South Australian Film Corporation
  • Matchbox Pictures
  • Dirty Films
  • Rising Sun Pictures
Initial Release Date: Mar 1, 2020
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards

Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards
• 13 Wins & 18 Nominations
ReFrame
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Australian Screen Editors
• 2 Nominations

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