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Tangle is an Australian drama series for the Showcase subscription television channel. It focuses on the tangled lives of two generations of two families. Tangle is filmed in Melbourne and first screened on 1 October 2009. It is written by Fiona Seres, Tony McNamara and Judi McCrossin, and directed by Jessica Hobbs, Matthew Saville and Stuart McDonald. There have so far been three seasons.

Season 1

Tangle revolves around the intertwined lives of the Kovac and Williams families and their network of friends and extended family. Nat Manning (Kat Stewart) returned to her home town of Melbourne after ten years in England on the minor celebrity circuit. She created ripples and then waves in the lives of two clans already struggling under the weight of their myriad secrets. Ally (Justine Clarke) is the devoted wife of builder Vince (Ben Mendelsohn), mother of Romeo and Gigi (Lincoln Younes and Eva Lazarro), who is happy to have her sister Nat back. Politician Tim (Joel Tobeck) had an affair 15 years ago with Nat, and as a result, Nat became pregnant. Tim and his wife Christine (Catherine McClements) patched up their marriage and fought hard for custody of the child, Max (Blake Davis). Divorcee Em is having an affair with married man Vince and doctor Gabriel (Matt Day) has a secret lust for married Ally.

Season 2

Secretive man Joe Kovac (Kick Gurry), brother of Vince, returns, hoping to become a part of a family he was never allowed into. Spiros Georgiades (Don Hany) is recruited by the party as a political adviser to Tim, and develops an attraction to Christine. Tim makes a bid for the top job of Premier, but is kicked out of the party after an honest press conference. Ally and her children, Romeo and Gigi, make a fresh start in a new house; Nat meets a young, successful man and Gabriel's new outgoing girlfriend, Sophie, looks a lot like Ally (according to Nat).

Season 3

Season Three will pull apart and look at just how the generations separate from one another and how the ties of family are stretched. Ally sheds some of love's illusions and begins to see life possibilities beyond her family and Gabriel. Both Romeo and Gigi need her less than she'd imagined, but in different ways, as they build their own lives. When Max moves away, Christine flirts with a parallel life at odds with all previous certainties. Gabriel learns his love for Ally is founded in her unavailability and is finally set free. Nat's chaos is the one constant.

Supporting cast

Tony Rickards – Billy Hall

Jane Allsop – Tanya Hicks

Lucia Emmerichs – Ophelia Hicks

Reef Ireland – Ned Dougherty

Madeleine Jay – Kelly

Alison Whyte – Nicky Barnham

Maude Davey – Agatha

Season 1

John Brumpton – Bryan Dougherty

Frank Gallacher – Pat Mahady

Alicia Banit – Leah

Simon Maiden – Stan/Voice of Yuri

Season 2

Adam Zwar – Huey Moss

Leah Vandenberg – Elle Rosenthal

Todd MacDonald – Paul

Tim Draxl – Conrad

Fiona Harris – Sophie

Ryan Corr – Isaac

Season 3

Dan Wyllie – Michael Chubievsky

Michael Clarke-Tokely – Luke Wintle

Elle Mandalis – Miss Papas

Nicholas Bell – Sean Roscoe

Ben Schumann – Harvey

Notable guest cast

Luke Hemsworth – John (2 episodes, 2009)

Kate Jenkinson – Melanie (5 episodes, 2009–12)

Lliam Amor – Robert Barker (2 episodes, 2009)

Tony Nikolakopoulos – Gordon (3 episodes, 2009–10)

Richard Sutherland – Jason (1 episode, 2009)

Marta Kaczmarek – Psychic (1 episode, 2010)

Alin Sumarwata – Julie (1 episode, 2010)

Kevin Harrington – Ian (1 episode, 2012)

John Flaus – Cemetery Keeper (1 episode, 2012)

Production

Showcase renewed Tangle for a third series on 12 December 2010 and production began in June 2011, ending in August.

Tangle is filmed in and around the city of Melbourne, usually set within the more affluent suburbs of the city. The new house in which Ally and her children move to in season three is in Black Rock, and Tim and Christine's house is in Kew. Some other locations that have been used to film throughout the series are:

Studley Park

Prahran

Malvern East (Ally's house in Series 1)