New Zealand Listener

TELEVISION

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 5

NOT EVEN

Wellington normal

Screening: Prime, 8.30pm

Streaming: Neon

By the looks of the first episode of this new comedy series about a group of Māori and Pasifika twenty-something friends living in the capital, it’s certainly very Wellington. The opening shot is on an Evans Bay breakwater and the characters spend a fair amount of time hoofing it up those steep, inner-city paths between their dingy and overpriced flats. As well, Dana Leaming first wrote the show while completing her master’s degree in creative writing at Victoria University, where it won the

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