Friday Night Bites

Synopsis

Friday Night Bites is an awkward comedy about a bunch of young women who don't know what they're doing in this life - but trying their damnedest to make it awesome. Examining what it is to be young, diverse, and female in an Auckland flat, Friday Night Bites explores everything pop-culture, political and emotional - from sexual foibles to quantum physics.

First Air Date: 2015-10-01

Last Air Date: 2016-11-03

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 11

Created By: Perlina Lau, Ally Xue, Roseanne Liang, J.J. Fong

Networks: TVNZ 2, YouTube

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Top Cast

J.J. Fong as Jessica
Perlina Lau as Perlina
Ally Xue as Lee
Andrew Munro as Dude
Roseanne Liang as Alternative Perlina
Wesley Chan as Lee
Philip Wang as Paulie
Katrina Wesseling as Katrina

Seasons

Season 1 (2015)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Best Comeback Ever (2015-10-01)

A stranger insults Lee on the street. With Jessica and Perlina's help, will she get her revenge?
Ep. 2: New Look (2015-10-01)

Jessica convinces Perlina to get a makeover. What can possibly go wrong?
Ep. 3: 5D Chat Roulette (2016-09-22)

The Flat3 girls find an extra-dimensional portal while they're rating penises on Chat Roulette.
Ep. 4: Slutwalk: The Musical (2016-09-22)

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.
Ep. 5: I Want It That Way (2016-09-22)

After a drunken night out, Jessica gives herself the ultimate affirmation by performing a sexy dance to a lone, hapless petrol station attendant.
Ep. 6: The Kid Has Qs (2016-09-29)

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.
Ep. 7: I'm Coming to Dinner (2016-10-06)

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.
Ep. 8: Set Up (2016-10-13)

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.
Ep. 9: Cosplay (2016-10-20)

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.
Ep. 10: Carpark (2016-10-27)

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.
Ep. 11: Art (2016-11-03)

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.