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friday night bites

A weekly comedy webseries following the eclectic Friday nights in the lives of three 20-something, Asian Kiwi women, who also happen to live together. Examining what it is to young, diverse, and female in the big city. FRIDAY NIGHT BITES explores everything pop-culture, political and emotional.

Created by Roseanne Liang, Perlina Lau, Ally Xue and JJ Fong. Produced by Maha Albadrawi, Rachel Fawcett and Kerry Warkia.

Friday Night Bites
SEASON 1
EP1 Best Comeback Ever

A stranger insults Lee on the street. With Jessica and Perlina's help, will she get her revenge?

                                

EP2 New Look

Jessica convinces Perlina to get a makeover. What can possibly go wrong?

EP3 5D Chat Roulette



The Flat3 girls find an extra-dimensional portal while they're rating penises on Chat Roulette.

Friday Night Bites
Friday Night Bites
EP4 Slutwalk: The Musical

Jessica, Perlina and Lee join a poorly attended SlutWalk event and run into a Stag party. Singing, dancing, and spirited discussion of rape culture ensues.                                 

EP5 I Want It That Way

After a drunken night out, Jessica gives herself the ultimate affirmation by performing a sexy dance to a lone, hapless petrol station attendant.

EP6 The Kid Has Qs



The Flat3 girls are tasked with babysitting a 7-year-old girl, but all hell breaks loose when the girl gets into Jessica's dubious browsing history. 

EP9 Cosplay

Jessica dresses as 'Slave Leia' for Armageddon, NZ's biggest pop culture expo, but her shrewd money-making cosplay venture is called into question by an expo staff member.

EP8 Set Up

The girls set up an Asian guy friend on a date with a white girl, and he gets into why dating is hell for him.

EP7 I'm Coming to Dinner

 

An homage to the 1967 film 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner'. Lee's brother Aaron has dinner with his white girlfriend's parents, and the initial politeness soon gives way to a game of penile one-upmanship.         

Friday Night Bites
Friday Night Bites
EP12 Uber Driver

 

A parody of 1976's iconic film 'Taxi Driver', mashed up with equally iconic movie 'Carrie'. Lee is plagued by insomnia and thoughts of revenge in the run up to her high school reunion. She starts driving for Uber to make money and to pass the time, but all is not well in her deep, dark mind.

EP11 Art

Perlina is horrified to find herself in some of the photos at the opening of an art exhibition, but is left with a conundrum when she realises the artist is a wheelchair user.

EP10 Carpark

A strange smiling man pursues the girls as they desperately try to drive out of the late-night carpark building. A special horror-comedy Halloween edition of Friday Night Bites featuring 'Tickled' director, David Farrier.                              

EP13 SP: Suit

A twin/two-ep homage to an iconic scene from Taxi Driver (the scene with Martin Scorsese acting). We have two eps almost identical in dialogue - one with an Asian-Kiwi guy, and one with a white guy doing the same scene.                            

Friday Night Bites
EP15 Sex Dream

Suffering the effects of chronic insomnia, Lee finds herself trapped in a very creepy world of nested dreams where Perlina and Jessica are not who they seem...

EP16 Netflix+Chill For 1

 

Perlina sexts, has dinner in bed and watches Netflix all at the same time, with hilarious and life-threatening results.

EP14 SP: Sweater

A twin/two-ep homage to an iconic scene from Taxi Driver (the scene with Martin Scorsese acting). We have two eps almost identical in dialogue - one with an Asian-Kiwi guy, and one with a white guy doing the same scene.                            

EP17 Rogue Won

 

In celebration of the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars story. Lee wins tickets for her and her friends to attend the red carpet premiere of Rogue One, but faces the wrath of Jessica and Perlina when she leave the tickets in her car, and can't remember where she parked it... 

EP18 Girlfight

 

An epic, unPC rap battle between Poly/Maori and Asians. Who wins? You decide. 

EP19 Xmas Home Invasion

 

Perlina and Lee confront two mysterious intruders in their flat. What are they here for, and what

are they planning to do?

EP20 Cheap Tarot

 

Jessica and Perlina have an agenda when they engage the services of an uppity Tarot reader to read Lee's new year fortune. 

EP21 Spontaneous Dance

 

Jessica breaks into a ridiculous dance solo while she's cleaning the flat.

EP23 Prize Doll

 

Lee wins a doll in a claw game and loves it very much until it starts turning up in strange places around the flat...  

EP22 Waiting 4 Consent

 

After a boozy night, Perlina hooks up with a guy, but in the interests of consent, he decides they shouldn't have sex until his home breathalyser deems them sober enough to drive. 

EP24 BF Auditions

 

Lee lies to her dad about having a boyfriend, but regrets it immediately when he invites the fake boyfriend over for Chinese New Year dinner. Perlina helps Lee hold fake boyfriend auditions - but the pickings are very dubious...

EP25 The Ex

 

Perlina runs into ex-boyfriend Nick, while she's waiting for a prescription at the pharmacy. Awkwardness ensues. 

EP26 50 Shades

 

Jessica procures a fancy bedroom for a kinky valentine's night with her boyfriend, but he is given a terrible fright when they have unexpected visitors...

EP27 Nude Pics Hacker1

Jessica is horrified to find her nude pics online. The flatmates visit a computer shop looking for the help of enigmatic hacker, Mister Bobot, to find the culprit and bring him to justice. Can Mister Bobot do the job, or is he just too fricking weird?

EP28 Nude Pics Hacker2

 

Jessica is horrified to find her nude pics online. Having found the culprit, the flatmates band together to bring him to justice. Are their kung fu skills good enough to best this dastardly f**kboy?

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