Atlantis High

A giddy, joke-a-minute spoof where every scene winks at soap-opera clichés, inviting you to laugh at the silliness rather than take any of it seriously.

Created by

Raymond Thompson

Genres

Drama, Comedy

Starring

Michael Wesley-Smith, Lee Donoghue, Laura Wilson

Overview

Atlantis High is a teen comedy TV show, shot in New Zealand in 2001. The plot revolves around 16-year-old Giles Gordon, who has just moved to Sunset Cove, "a beautiful coastal surfing town where the sun is always shining, the people are all beautiful and everything is perfect... or so it seems." He enrolls in Atlantis High School, where he soon discovers that Sunset Cove is unlike any town he's ever seen: populated by double-agents, aliens and high school students with blue hair and pointy ears, its inhabitants are eccentric lunatics who at times turn into superheroes or other whimsical figures. Atlantis High both parodies soap operas and pays homage to spoof television.

How it feels

Absurd, satirical, whimsical and campy. Brisk and easy to follow.

About

Identity, coming-of-age, deception, mystery

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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