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Tatau

Name: Tatau
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Released: 2015-04-12
Cast: Joe Layton, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Cian Elyse White, Rangimoana Taylor, Alex Tarrant

2015 | 1 seasons | 40 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Monday Morning Maybeearly rating

Why it’s a Monday Morning Maybe

With a small audience and almost no lasting buzz, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.

Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.

Is it for you?

Who'll love it: Made for crime-drama fans and sci-fi fans. If you loved Vigil or Hawaii Five-0, start here.
The mood: Dark and gritty.
The pace: One season: easy to finish in a weekend or two, episodes of about 40 minutes, about 5 hours in all.
What might put you off: It was cancelled, so the story may not get a proper ending.

Tatau follows Kyle and Budgie, two twenty-something friends from London that set off to travel the world. Ahead of the journey, Kyle gets a Maori-style tattoo to celebrate their eventual destination: the Cook Islands. When snorkeling in a lagoon, Kyle finds the dead body of a local girl, Aumea, tied up underwater. Returning to the lagoon with the police, Kyle finds her corpse has disappeared. But Kyle knows what he saw. Desperate to uncover what happened, Kyle and Budgie find themselves sucked deeper and deeper into a world of Maori myths, symbols, and hallucinatory visions... until finally the full meaning of Kyle’s tattoo is revealed.

How it earned its rating

CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
Reach & staying powerWeak
Limited series that reached a small audience so far; interest faded quickly after launch
Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 2K people sought it out in the past year