Name: A Thousand Dreadful Things
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 25 min

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Married couple Vinny and Cole are retired detectives who leave Sydney to run a seaside motel in New Zealand; their fresh start is short-lived when a suspicious death draws them into a series of baffling murders.

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