TV series

Kaitangata Twitch

2010 · 1 season

A gentle, slightly eerie mystery that draws you into a small town's secrets and a girl's strange connection to a restless island.

Overview: Kaitangata Twitch is a children's adventure/fantasy series that aired on Maori TV in New Zealand in 2010. Based on the children's book of the same name, written by renouned New Zealand children's author, Margaret Mahy, it follows the adventures of thirteen year old Meredith, who can hear voices calling to her from a nearby island, Kaitangata, in the bay of her small hometown. A legend of pre-European New Zealand, the frequent rumblings of small earthquakes and the disappearance of a young Pakeha girl, fifty years earlier, all shroud the mystery surrounding the island.
How it feels: Eerie, warm, melancholic and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Mystery, identity, family, isolation
Content: Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: mystery
identity
family
isolation
coming-of-age
Places: small town
countryside
sea
Era: contemporary
Audience: family
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none