It’s an antipodean hybrid, a story about a widowed Australian journalist who pens an 800-word column each week about living in a small coastal town in New Zealand called Weld with his two teenage children.
If you ignore his straight-to-camera homilies, concentrate on the comedy-drama and squint a little you could almost be watching Cold Feet.
It’s now in its second series but all episodes are on iPlayer.
Monday’s show included plots on condoms, convicts and cricket. In that order.
Lead character George Turner, quite the charmer, is a ladies’ man who has rediscovered surfing and gets plenty of attention from potential partners, which he brilliantly messes up. It’s “bonza”, mate.
