Broad City

New Zealand’s own version of Broad City is back

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Alex Casey talks to PSUSY creator Jaya Beach-Robertson about pushing the webseries boundaries and dealing with thrush. PSUSY is a lot things, but it is not here to be cute. The psychedelic, hilarious webseries created by Jaya Beach Robertson and directed by Annie Duckworth delves deep into the gnarly realities of sex, dating and gender … Read more

The dream of the 90s is alive in Search Party

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Sam Brooks watches Search Party, the indie-inspired comedy that contains as many mysteries as it does 90s stars.  If you were to make a webseries in the 90s, somehow having the same crazy technology as of today, you would probably make Search Party. You’d also immediately burned for being a witch, because that’s what they … Read more

‘We are very flawed and gross’ – PSUSY creator Jaya Beach-Robertson on bringing nasty women to the screen

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Sick of seeing women portrayed as squeaky clean and virtuous, Jaya Beach-Robertson created PSUSY to prove they can be anything but. Liam Maguren sat down with her to talk through the ups and downs of creating a worldly web series. If you haven’t come across the New Zealand web series PSUSY yet, I’m not sure how … Read more

Television: Who’s a Good Boy? Counting Down TV’s Top Dogs of 2015

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This year some of the most powerful performances on television came from canines. James Beavis of Facebook’s Cool Dog Group picks his top 10. I used to find the “dogs > people” sentiment extremely corny and bad, but I’m a changed person. After nearly two years of helping run the Cool Dog Group on Facebook … Read more

The Spinoff’s TV Week: Local Car Wrecks, Rising Radio Punks and Brazenly Sweaty Broads

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Bringing together the TV moments of the week, including a raging studio radio documentary, the return of Broad City, Hayley Holt tackling Back Benches and a farewell to Pixie.   Rise of the Radio Punks Prime’s excellent series of local documentaries wrapped this week with a breezy, boozy stroll through forty odd years of student radio. … Read more

Appointment Viewing: Broads, Punks and Shearers – Five Things to Watch This Week

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Woah, busy alert! I see you, shuffling papers and scrolling through your calendar with a furrowed brow. Life is crazy, life is hectic. TV? Forget about it! What a nightmare! Lucky for you, we have had a scan of the week ahead and have got your five essential television appointments booked. Sit back, relax and let the … Read more

Workaholics, Broad City and the Return of the TV Stoner

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After years of TV being a wasteland for wastedness, a pair of woozy comedies have helped bring weed back in from the cold, says Henry Oliver. // Like all things, drugs are subject to fashion. As one comes in, another goes out. In the 90s and early 00s, weed was most definitely IN: The Chronic, … Read more

The Week in News: Broads, Brothers and Broadchurch

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Goodbye Sweet Dawg After 13 seasons, 400 cheesecutter hats and just as many peace signs – judge Randy Jackson is moving on from American Idol. He leaves Ryan Seacrest as the only remaining original cast member, to join Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul in some sort of Coca-Cola Mecca. The judges for the upcoming season … Read more