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Review: Scotney's solo show is both sprawling and intimate, and a must-see.

Scattergun: After the Death of Rūaumoko reveals the frightening talent of Ana Scotney

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Is Olivia Rodrigo about to announce a New Zealand show? An investigation

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TrueBliss react to their most iconic Y2K Popstars looks

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A weepy Paul Mescal movie, an inspiring new series about food waste and a whole lot of 80s rock'n'roll mullets.

New to streaming: What to watch on Netflix NZ, Neon and more this week

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Our tortured critics department reviews the new Taylor Swift album.

What do we make of The Tortured Poets Department?

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'You’d sit at home watching American Idol or X Factor or whatever and just pinch yourself thinking about how we were the first.'

How Popstars and TrueBliss changed reality television forever

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'Who's ready to see their parents do some pashing?'

Five reasons why you should watch new reality series My Mum, Your Dad NZ

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'I looked over and saw Dai Henwood just shaking his head.'

‘The room went dead quiet’: Josh Thomson on his worst 7 Days moment

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'This Ripley is not charming, he doesn’t have the gift of the gab ... instead his criminal competence seems to come from an immunity to what other people think of him.'

Netflix’s Ripley is the most controversial adaptation yet – it’s also the best

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Five reasons to wave your preconceptions goodbye and watch this smart, funny and very accessible new show.

Review: Don’t let ‘based on a video game’ put you off Fallout

Don't let ‘based on a video game’ put you off Fallout

Alex Casey

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From the Jono and Ellie bombshell to the return of Collins, we look at back at two incredible nights of television.

The best moments from the outrageous final episodes of MAFS AU

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'Seeing these children, and their little bright shiny faces, really hit home how young they were.'

How The Lost Boys of Dilworth brought a ‘horrendous nightmare’ to life

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An impressive new HBO spy thriller, a charming new romantic reality series, the return of My Life is Murder and more.<br />


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'People always joke that they hope I never contact them. Because for blokes, it's probably the child they never knew about. And for women, it’s probably the child they’ve never spoken about.'

‘One hell of a shock’: Why not everyone wants flowers from David Lomas

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Only read this if you've also had John o' Groats, Fray Bentos and the sword of Damocles stuck in your head since 2002.

A complete list of things I only know about because of The Office

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Netflix's retelling of the events surrounding Prince Andrew's infamous TV interview has the sheen of a high-prestige drama, but it pays to keep your expectations low.

Review: Prince Andrew drama Scoop hits a lot of bum notes, but Billie Piper isn’t one

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'Some people might take the news elegantly … not running around the house like I did.'

‘Several hours screaming’: Jess Hong on being cast in Netflix’s most-watched series

Tara Ward

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'It's the end of something very special in New Zealand that may not happen anywhere else in the world.'

‘The end of something very special’: A look back at nearly half a century of Fair Go

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Three’s sharp new local drama follows two best friends and a surrogacy pact that goes wrong.

The aftershocks keep coming in gripping new psychological drama Friends Like Her

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Subways, palaces, gold heists, rockets on trains and luxury nightlife? You Bollywood in Wellington.

When Wellington starred in a Bollywood spy thriller: a scene-by-scene breakdown

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Labour in opposition will be shocked to learn which party had six years in power but squandered any chance to make real change.

Labour has forgotten it was in government

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Welcome to the whirring wonders of one brain trying to align its actions with its beliefs in a system it thinks is evil.

Is it time for anti-capitalists to embrace shopping? An argument with myself

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'My husband puts 10% into KiwiSaver and I put 8%. We also save about $500/$600 a month.'

The cost of being: A frugal charity director with two teens and two houses

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The associate justice minister Nicole McKee says changes to the regime will make it more workable.

Government chalks up ‘tough on crime’ point with resurrected three strikes law

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Rising membership has been cited as rationale for a crackdown, but this is what we actually know about gang numbers.

Have gang numbers really ‘skyrocketed’ in recent years?

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Why Restore Passenger Rail has set its sights on stopping cruise ships

. To celebrate, bandleader Finn Scholes has drawn us a comic, a “science fiction story about a man who realises his life is not what it seems,” that you can read while listening to the album.

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Today, Auckland band Carnivorous Plant Society released their new album The New King. To celebrate, bandleader Finn Scholes has drawn a comic that you can read while listening to the album.

The Spinoff

Pop CultureMarch 16, 2018

Listen to the Carnivorous Plant Society album while reading a comic by Finn Scholes

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Pop CultureMarch 16, 2018

Listen to the Carnivorous Plant Society album while reading a comic by Finn Scholes

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