After her husband is jailed, Cheryl West decides the time has come to set her family on the straight and narrow. But can the Wests change old habits? While the family gets busy with romance, cussing and blackmail, matriarch Cheryl struggles to decide between bad-boy hubbie Wolf or cop Wayne Judd. Hugely popular at home, and with countries lining up to make their own versions of the Westie saga, the series staunchly proved - in all its grow-your-own glory - that genre TV in NZ could be so much more than overseas' stories pasted to a NZ setting.
In the world of television, there are unspoken codes. Expensive clothes are important. Losers get voted off, so the audience won't have to look at them. Forensic testing takes only a few quick-cut minutes. And criminals spill the beans, in time ...
DVDs available from DVD outlets throughout New Zealand.
Screentalk Interviews with John Leigh (Sparky), Robyn Malcolm (Cheryl), James Griffin, Vanessa Alexander, Hori Ahipene (Angel) and Craig Hall (Nicky).
romance, brothers, daughters, lawyer, west auckland, elderly, legality, sex, robbery, jail, theft, sisters, prison, sons, nudity, morality, crime, family
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