Picnic at Hanging Rock
A reimagining of the iconic Australian novel that plunges us into the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and their governess on Valentine's Day, 1900. Exploring the event's far-reaching impact on the students and staff of Appleyard College, their enigmatic headmistress and the nearby township, theories soon abound, paranoia sets in, long-held secrets surface, and the mystery deepens.
- Metascore62
- 2018-2018
- 1 season
- Acorn Media Group
- Drama, Suspense
- TV-14
A reimagining of the iconic Australian novel that plunges us into the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and their governess on Valentine's Day, 1900. Exploring the event's far-reaching impact on the students and staff of Appleyard College, their enigmatic headmistress and the nearby township, theories soon abound, paranoia sets in, long-held secrets surface, and the mystery deepens.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2018
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
Fri, May 25, 2018 52 mins
Set in a very different era of 1900 Australia, this very appetizing Picnic, like the Weir pic, focuses on the consequences of the Valentine's Day disappearance and presumed death of three students and a teacher from the tyrannical Appleyard College girls school, run by Dormer's chilling character.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
Fri, May 25, 2018 52 mins
Hester's three star pupils and a governess have disappeared. Led by a dogged Sergeant, local men search for the missing. Has something supernatural befallen them? Or has a human outrage occurred? An aristocratic young Englishman, Michael Fitzhubert, was the last person to see the girls, and when the search is abandoned, he is compelled to return to the Rock where he makes a shocking discovery.
Episode 3
Episode #1.3
Fri, May 25, 2018 53 mins
The missing Rothschild heiress, Irma Leopold, has been found, remarkably unharmed, but claiming to remember nothing. Meanwhile, rumors spread and the Sergeant turns his attention to the College. What secrets lie hidden behind the locked gates? His investigation intensifies Hester's paranoia and she grows certain that the young orphan, Sara, knows something about the disappearance.
Episode 4
Episode #1.4
Fri, May 25, 2018 48 mins
During the Christmas holidays Irma stayed at the school, being offered a teaching post by Hester though Marion was shocked by what she saw Irma doing. Now with no trace of the missing trio Hester renames the school and decides to move on, despite a staff rebellion and the strange behaviour of orphan Sara Waybourne. Alfred is sent a thousand pounds by Irma's parents for finding her and decides to put it to good use whilst the arrival at the school of stone mason Tomasetti has an unsettling effect on Hester.
Episode 5
Episode #1.5
Fri, May 25, 2018 50 mins
As more girls and staff leave the school Dianne discovers that Sara has disappeared and disbelieves Hester's account that her guardian collected her, informing Sergeant Bumpher and her watch-maker lover Louis Montpelier. Hester responds by sacking her and a reluctant Dora Lumly. Hester is ambivalent when Dr Mackenzie proposes marriage whilst, in Melbourne, Irma tells Bumpher, investigating Sara's disappearance, that Hester is " a fraud".
Episode 6
Episode #1.6
Fri, May 25, 2018 49 mins
Dora and Reg perish in a fire, after which charred bodies are found at the rock whilst Sara's corpse is discovered at the school. Hester believes that Arthur, the husband she left behind along with her criminal past in England, has followed her and used the vanishings as his revenge on her but Tomasetti tells her he is dead. Aware that her lies have caught up with her she travels to the rock, where Sara saw the missing pupils partake in a sisterly vow. It does not solve the mystery of the girls who disappeared but adds another death to the tally of the departed.
