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Bond, James Bond? Not quite, but this Kiwi comedy is a delightfully dry spin on spy thrillers
Lovers of endearingly mild-mannered New Zealanders being polite, careful and deadpan in risky, high-stakes circumstances, rejoice. New Zealand Spy is a six-part comedy series from New Zealand comedian, writer and musician Paul Williams (Taskmaster NZ), whose love of James Bond and Alfred Hitchcock films has engendered a deeply dry-witted retake on classic spy films.
Kicking off with the panache and adventure of any Bond movie, we meet Williams’ spy protagonist, Michael Brown (spy name: Michael Riviera), piste skiing in a pearly white snowsuit down a vast Queenstown slope chased by an Australian spy agency guard.
Brown is eventually trapped and his identity requested at gunpoint. Does he answer “Riviera, Michael Riviera”? No. What follows is an awkward silence as he tries to remember his undercover alias. A squabble ensues, the guard is perplexed and infuriated but we flash back to how Riviera became a spy a few weeks previously.
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New Zealand's newest spies – and the only three who applied – are tasked with protecting the nation from incoming threats, most notably from their noisy neighbours in Australia.
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