{"id":46,"date":"2007-04-17T22:48:26","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T10:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/17\/the-insiders-guides-to-love-and-happiness\/"},"modified":"2012-07-27T16:21:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T04:21:05","slug":"the-insiders-guides-to-love-and-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/the-insiders-guides-to-love-and-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Insiders Guides to Love and Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Webmistresse visited our humble abode the other weekend. Over a cuppa, The Goddess and I enthused about The Insiders Guide to Happiness<\/a>. We’d enjoyed the pre-\/se-quel, The Insiders Guide to Love<\/a> last year and, thanks to some applied relationship chaos theory, Mr Samson<\/a> lent us his copy of Happiness<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“What’s it about?” the Webmistresse quite reasonably asked.<\/p>\n

The Goddess and I looked at each other. It’s not a procedural. Nor is it a soap per se<\/em>. Our best description is that it’s a television series that explores the philosophy of happiness. ‘Philosophy’ and ‘television’ in the same breath? Believe it<\/em>. Not once was it trite as it asked – and didn’t necessarily answer – hard questions about being happy in and with the one life we get.<\/p>\n

Most homegrown television has a self-consciousness pouring out of its every orifice. I suspect it’s a hangover from decades of cultural cringe<\/a>: “Oh yeh, hi, I’m your latest Homegrown Drama. I know you’ve been waiting ages for me to turn up – and thanks to [INSERT BROADCASTER] and New Zealand on Air<\/a>, here I am. Give us a go, eh, ’cause heh, y’know, you’re watching… New Zealand on air<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

The Insiders Guides<\/em> are thankfully devoid of such affectation: these<\/strong> are the characters; here<\/strong> are the stories; keep up<\/em><\/strong>. Late-weekend-night scheduling and minimal publicity made the Insiders Guides<\/a> the best intelligent adult homegrown television that few saw. Thank gosh for DVDs.<\/p>\n

Fedora-tips to Happiness<\/em> creator Peter Cox<\/a> and writers David Brechin-Smith<\/a> and Paula Boock<\/a> for kick-arse scripts, and producer Dave Gibson<\/a> for believing<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Webmistresse visited our humble abode the other weekend. Over a cuppa, The Goddess and I enthused about The Insiders Guide to Happiness. We’d enjoyed the pre-\/se-quel, The Insiders Guide to Love last year and, thanks to some applied relationship chaos theory, Mr Samson lent us his copy of Happiness. “What’s it about?” the Webmistresse … <\/p>\n

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