There is an excited hum in the greater Ponsonby area these days. There are mid winter market days, Te Karanga Hape festivals for Matariki as well as new cafes, design stores and events popping up all over. But with the nights getting longer and colder it’s good to know there’s a range of great entertainment options out there to snuggle up at home and share.
NETFLIX
Shot in New Zealand and directed by our own Toa Fraser (The Dead Lands) this series features a few beloved local landmarks (check out Auckland Zoo and The Strand Railway Station) as you have never seen them before. Co-starring great local acting talent (Jodie Rimmer, Anna Jullienne, Sarah Peirse, Andrew Lang, Jared Tuner, Suli Moa and musician Marlon Williams to name a few) it’s no wonder it’s Netflix’s number one show right now.
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It’s an adventure story with a lot of heart and you will want to watch it with whanau and friends. From mysterious hybrids (babies born part human, part animal), to a community of paranoid ‘survivors’, this series is a commentary on a world in flux that sometimes doesn’t feel much different from our own. When society struggles to understand what really matters sometimes the path has to come from a more unusual place. Our hero Gus, (Sweet Tooth played by Christian Convery) together with Jepp, (Nonso Anozie) take us on a journey to ‘home’, a place as much as a concept, and you can’t help but see the world through a different lens after seeing it as Gus sees it. for whanau viewing
SWEET TOOTH - Jared Turner as George Anderson, Anna Jullienne as Beverly Anderson and Tom Kerr as Rusty Anderson Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2021
Sweet Tooth Critics love Sweet Tooth. Set in a post pandemic world and based on a popular DC comic book series, it shows humankind at its worst and best. When ‘the sickness’ hits and the world as we know it falls in the ‘The Great Crumble’ everything changes and sometimes the most human are the half breeds.
SWEET TOOTH - Jodie Rimmer as Judy Cr. Kirsty Griffin/Netflix © 2021
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SWEET TOOTH - (L to R) Christian Convery as Gus and Nonso Anozie as Tommy Jepperd Cr. Kirsty Griffin/Netflix © 2021
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