Your ancestors are back from the dead and they've got OPINIONS on your life choices.
Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestIn the season finale Kiri thinks she has it all figured out, not realising life as she knows it, is crumbling around her.
A high-powered Māori lawyer (Miriama Smith) accidentally unleashes her chaotic tūpuna (ancestors), forcing the living and the dead to navigate their shared legacy.
Acting
Miriama Smith balances corporate ice queen with absolute spiritual meltdown.
Writing
Scotty Cotter weaves Māori cosmology into mundane legal paperwork.
Production
The tūpuna visual language—neither ghost horror nor cheesy glow.
Creator
Scotty Cotter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series uses tūpuna visitation as narrative device, reflecting actual Māori frameworks where ancestors remain active participants in whānau life—not memories, but living relationships.
Miriama Smith and Kura Forrester improvised several whānau dinner scenes; Cotter kept the takes where cast genuinely cracked each other up. The 'roti incident' in episode 4 was unscripted.
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