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While lives are always in peril, Bay of Fires can be laugh-out-loud funny, as the shootout in the final episode of the first season, worthy of a Sergio Leone western, attests. The opening of the new one recaptures that happily nutty spirit when a couple of backpackers, one a self-important influencer, stumble into town requesting oat lattes.

At this early stage, the townsfolk, flush with cash from Stella’s scheme, have been spending wildly on consumer goods, the cafe is charging extortionate prices and Stella and her kids have a new home. She’s paying Thaddeus for border security but is being threatened by Frankie’s coolly menacing business partner who’s demanding that she resume their drug-manufacturing business.

So she’s back in her blue op-shop parka, assuring Jeremiah, “I have things under control.” And, once again, it’s fun watching her best laid plans implode.

Bay of Fires premieres on Sunday, June 15, on the ABC at 8pm.