Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticNetflix’s new acquisition “Stateless” gets to its subject only circuitously. We meet Sofie (Yvonne Strahovski) as she’s running through the Australian desert trying to escape from something, then zoom back in time to see her as a polished flight attendant whose attempts at escape are somewhat less literal.
Sofie, before her life takes a strange turn, is a devotee of a dance-based cult led by Cate Blanchett (a series co-creator) and Dominic West, both operating at the height of their charisma; when she’s turned away from the cult after having torched her family life and career, she ends up in immigration detention even despite being an Australian citizen. (This series first aired on Australian television, and.
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