The Insider's Guide To Happiness
TV ShowEnded

The Insider's Guide To Happiness

2004
1 season
13 episodes
Drama

The Insiders Guide To Happiness is a New Zealand drama series that explores the lives of a group of six previously unconnected people. Each life is connected by a bizarre car accident, the outcome of which forces them to examine and explore the happiness in their own lives. The series was followed by a prequel, The Insider's Guide To Love, with James the only character in common.

Sign in to add to your list

What critics are saying

Verdicts use the same scale as your list: highly recommended through avoid — plus optional scores and blurbs.

Highly recommended Recommend Give it a go Neutral Avoid

Nobody on Critic, Sir! has logged a verdict for this title yet. The silence is either respectful or suspicious.

Sign in and use Add to My List below to share your own verdict.

Cast

Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Is Happiness an Accident?

    19-05-200445m

    Julie, a thirty-something caterer, meets her husband Simon at a cafe to tell him the good news that she is pregnant, but his response is to choke on a mushroom and collapse. In the...

  • Ep 2

    2.Who Controls Your Happiness?

    26-05-200445m

    Tina rescues an old lottery ticket from under a stray cat at the accident intersection - and gets scratched in the process. Because she suffers from Von Willebrand's, a rare blood...

  • Ep 3

    3.Will the Truth Make You Happy?

    03-06-200445m

    Matthew escapes from the hospital and goes to his own funeral. He feels guilty about having cheated on his fiancee with Tess on his last day alive. But during his funeral Matthew d...

  • Ep 4

    4.What Are You Afraid Of?

    10-06-200445m

    Lindy hates her new job and she despises Nathan, the bookshop's paraplegic owner. When she accuses him of being a loser and 'giving up' on life, he fires her. Now she has no job. B...

  • Ep 5

    5.Are you In Denial?

    17-06-200445m

    James tries to deny the surreal things that are happening to him, but becomes increasingly distressed as the monks assert that he is the reincarnation of Yu Ku'an Wu. When he time-...

  • Ep 6

    6.Do You Deserve To Be Happy?

    24-06-200445m

    Phil doesn't have much time left, but convinces William to do three things he's always wanted to do. First, they meet up with Lindy for an 'old times' lunch - but it's a disaster....

  • Ep 7

    7.What If You Could Start Over?

    01-07-200445m

    Matthew, James and Tina meet and take a bungy ride together, but something happens, and they land in a street scene frozen in time. Freaked out, they gradually realise it is a spli...

  • Ep 8

    8.Will You Be Happy Tomorrow?

    08-07-200445m

    Julie's pregnancy is making her feel fat and ugly. Tim is reassuring and pleasant to her. He even calls her 'babe'. When Julie goes for her check-up she even finds herself giving T...

  • Ep 9

    9.Who Taught You To Be Happy?

    15-07-200445m

    Tina's 25th birthday is coming up and she feels lost without Sam, so she moves in with Julie, despite her sister's protestations. However when Tina messes up a catering order, old...

  • Ep 10

    10.Being Happy is Being Who You Are

    22-07-200445m

    James feels the need to do something more worthwhile with his life, and gets time off work to sort himself out. He makes friends with Gene, a worker with the homeless, and Gene enc...

  • Ep 11

    11.Does Happiness Grow Up?

    29-07-200445m

    William gets tested to see if he can be a sperm donor for Donna, and is shocked to find out that he is infertile. He is plunged into a depression that he can't be a father, but doe...

  • Ep 12

    12.Can You Embrace A New Life?

    05-08-200445m

    Julie is nearing the end of her pregnancy and finds herself sleepwalking for the first time in her life - right to the intersection where the ambulance crash occurred. Julie doesn...

  • Ep 13

    13.You Are Happy

    12-08-200445m

    Tess tells Matthew that she's pregnant, but his joy is tempered by a sighting of the (dead) Old Monk. When the monk confronts Matthew in a shop, he tells him that it is time to 'co...

Watching Lists

Sign in to create and edit public lists.

Loading lists…

Purchase & Discovery

Find this title on Amazon

Digital

Prime Video & digital

Amazon mixes rent, buy, and Prime in one place — one search covers the usual options.

As an Amazon Associate, Critic, Sir! earns from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure