Insiders Guide to Happiness, The (TV Series)

New Zealand 2004, 585 minutes
Rating: [M]
Genres: Television, Drama, Comedy

Feat. Fasitua Amosa, Ben Barrington, Fraser Brown, Will Hall, Sophia Hawthorne, Samantha Jukes, Paolo Rotondo, Madeleine Sami, Sally Stockwell

Aroview: An ambitious, stylish TV series (made on our doorstep) which shows the life-tracks of various contemporary urbanites and suburbanites meshing and splitting, as each episode loosely follows the chapters of the titular book.

Run through with oddball plots radiating out from a central ambulance crash, this invokes supernatural experiences, chaos theory, the afterlife and the obligatory romance. Benefits both from an accomplished visual rendering and intelligent use of flashbacks and odd transitions, this takes a little aclimatising, but should draw most viewers into its reality, and have one wondering: What happened to the missing apostrophe?

13 episodes over 4 discs.