Wellington Paranormal (2018+)
IMDb meta-data is 19 episodes of 25 minutes to date, rated 7.5 by 101,362 Kiwis.
Genre: Horror
Verdict: 3D (Dry, Droll, and Deadpan)
Tip One: Watch in sequences. You’ll see why. Tip Two: The delivery is often fast, there are asides, and sotto voce comments that are best appreciated by turning on subtitles. We have seen all the episodes and we are watching them again but to be specific these comments concern Season 2, Episode 6 Mobots.
Sergeant Ruawai Maaka briefs the duty watch at Wellington Central Police for the morning. Once again he urges officers not to use of pepper spray on lunch! Too late for those who tried it for breakfast but had the nozzle turned the wrong way around. Captain Frank Furillo never had this problem.
After the others have their assignments, e.g., assisting the spray victims to the medic, changing the channel on the television, making tea, Sarge turns to the crack Hardly Normal Squad of Officers Karen O’Leary and Mike Minogue. These secret squirrels retire to the concealed room behind the bookcase in the back hall. What’s going down? All over the Mt Victoria area old mobile phones and other discarded electronics have disappeared from kitchen drawers, sheds, garages, under stairs, attics, coat pockets, and closets. First these items disappeared into these recesses and then they disappeared from them. Wow!
Thereafter Sarge Maaka offers the running commentary of a police reality television show as O’Leary and Minogue scope the doings, starting with O’Leary’s mum who lives in the area. Yes, this is Mrs O’Leary without a cow. The cow turns up in another episode.
There is a delightful scene with a snake, sort of, and a taser that makes Davis Quinton of Dog River look responsible.
To assist the field officers Sarge has called in a tech head, who begins by undoing everything his predecessors did, reinstalling all the software, and then rebooting in the middle of the operation for beta testing. Doing all this gives Tech time to pick his nose.
Loved the interrogation with the transformer. Updates are indeed dangerous. Try this IOS, Punk! After seeing this object lesson, for the moment I am holding off Catalina.
So far we have had no references to the Bee Hive in Wellington, though surely that is a tempting target.