The Lounge
Go Girls are go
by Fiona Rae
The North Shore gets the Outrageous treatment.
Eureka! The formula for local drama, they have found it! And with the launch of Go Girls (TV2, Thursday, 8.30pm), South Pacific Pictures is about to do for the North Shore what Outrageous Fortune has been doing for West Auckland.
The series features four twentysomething Shore-vians, friends from school, who make a pact to realise their dreams within the year. Well, the three “Go Girls” do; we’ll get to what their bloke friend wants later. There’s Amy (Anna Hutchison), Britta (Alix Bushnell), and Cody (Bronwyn Turei). Their mate Kevin (Jay Ryan) supplies the sometimes perplexed, sometimes wry, voiceover.
The first episode is less, er, outrageous than Outrageous Fortune, even if it does open with the BFFs getting drunk and stoned on the beach. It’s more that the story is told with Outrageous Fortune’s witty economy, featuring clever flashbacks and quick vignettes that tell us what we need to know without -laborious dialogue.
Amy, Britta and Cody make a promise to become, respectively, rich, famous and married within the year. Why they want to do this is revealed in the first episode; how they plan to do it is yet to come. Naturally, there are plenty of obstacles: Amy works in a call centre, Britta is in a naff emo band, and tomboy Cody doesn’t even have a boyfriend.
And Kev? You can probably guess that, with three friends who are girls, there is one for whom he has a long-felt want. But he plays it safe, sticking with “a new sports steering wheel” for the year, although later comes clean, admitting he “should have said mags”.
