Review: Aroha Bridge “Marae Mysteries”

 

Overview (Spoilers Below)

The twins head to a getaway weekend with their family where Kowhai tries to sing in front of everybody but is terrible. Problem is, someone, steals Monty’s shoes during the performance and we later learn it was their militant uncle. Later, during a renovation project, the twins go on a mission to learn more about their aunt.

Our Take

Unfortunately, this week’s episode is one of the more poorly produced of the lot thus far. Instead of feeling like one cohesive episode, we get like five or six shorts just jammed together with no real rhyme or reason. As a result, the pacing of the jokes that I liked in previous weeks’ episodes isn’t anywhere to be found and the jokes that are in don’t hit all that well. There probably is a bunch of local humor that an outsider like me wouldn’t understand, and that could be some of it. But, most of the season has been pretty easy to follow, just not this week’s penultimate effort.