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Rude Awakenings - First Episode
Television (Full Length Episode) – 2007
When a local drama series has viewers firing off letters to the editor passionately for or against, it’s probably doing something right.– Diana Wichtel in a Listener review, February 2007
It's about a bunch of Ponsonby tossers and their feral neighbours…– Paul Casserly in The NZ Herald, 20 February 2012
This is a satire, but based on reality — a couple of notches away from naturalism. I like the feel of it and thought that Ponsonby and the preoccupations of the people who live there were ripe for taking the piss.– Fiona Samuel, one of the show's writers
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