New Zealand's first adult-targeted animated series – often compared to The Simpsons or South Park – Bro’Town follows five teenagers through the “mean streets” of Auckland, New Zealand. Set amongst the country’s growing Pacific Islander community, the series is based on the performance of the local four-man group The Naked Samoans.

Vale, Valea, Jeff da Maori, Sione and Mack live in the suburb of Morningside (catchphrase: “Morningside 4 Life!”), and attend the local college, St. Sylvester’s. The show satirizes the boys’ culture, with vivid dialogue in the local vernacular, and expresses what it's like to grow up as a minority culture in Auckland, the largest Polynesian city in the world.

Although the setting is contemporary and the satire topical, the humour often reflects a nostalgia for the 1980s period of the Naked Samoans' own boyhood. The series is also scattered with references to New Zealand literature, particularly the novels and short stories of Witi Ihimaera.

Oscar Kightley, one of the Naked Samoans, is also featured the documentary Made in Taiwan, where he goes on a quest to revisit his roots after taking a DNA test to discover his ancestral heritage.

Watch clips from all of the episodes screened so far on Link TV.

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