The Luminaries is a 2020 English language adventure mystery drama television miniseries available on Netflix. The show is based on a novel with the same name by Eleanor Catton and written by Claire McCarthy and produced by Lisa Chatfield with cast members including Eve Hewson, Marton Csokas, Erik Thomson, Ewen Leslie, Richard Te Are, Himesh Patel, Eva Green, and Benedict Hardie. The show is set in the 1860's gold rush period, where a young girl filled with adventure named Anna Wetherell traveled from the United Kingdom to South Island’s West Coast to begin her new life. The show is filled with drama including revenge, love, murder.