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Mako: Island of Secrets
The mermaids are back and this time they're real.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Allie Bertram
Mimmi
42 eps
Amy Ruffle
Sirena
52 eps
Lucy Fry
Lyla
26 eps
Ivy Latimer
Nixie
26 eps
Isabel Durant
Ondina
42 eps
Linda Ngo
Weilan
16 eps
Chai Hansen
Zac Blakely
68 eps
Gemma Forsyth
Evie McLaren
42 eps
Alex Cubis
Erik
26 eps
Natalie O'Donnell
Veridia
7 eps
Kylie Loveday
Young Mrs. Lauren Blakely
1 eps
Tori Bailey
Jodie
1 eps
Melina Vidler
Northern Mermaid
1 eps
Cariba Heine
Rikki Chadwick
2 eps
Nick Wright
Joe
8 eps
Angourie Rice
Neppy
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Mako: Island of Secrets actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Mako: Island of Secrets reads strongest on Spectacle, Character Depth and Bingeability.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
Real-life mermaids, Sirena, Nixie and Lyla are part of a mermaid pod, which lives in the waters of Mako Island. As young members of the pod, it is their job to protect the Moon Pool and guard it from trespassers. But on the night of a full moon, the mischievous mermaid girls neglect their duties. Sixteen-year-old land-dweller Zac enters the Moon Pool and forms a special connection with Mako. Zac is given a fish-like tail and amazing powers. The mermaid pod is forced to leave Mako, leaving behind the three mermaid girls, cast out of the pod. They know there's only one way they will be allowed to rejoin the pod: They must get legs, venture onto land and take back Zac's powers – or risk being outcasts forever.
The run
Seasons
3 seasons · 68 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
201326 episodes
6.2IMDbSirena, Nixie and Lyla are part of a mermaid pod, which lives in the waters of Mako Island. As young members of the pod, it is their job to protect the Moon Pool and guard it from trespassers. But on the night of a full moon, the mischievous mermaid girls neglect their duties. Sixteen-year-old land-dweller Zac enters the Moon Pool and forms a special connection with Mako. Zac is given a fish-like tail and amazing powers. The mermaid pod is forced to leave Mako, leaving behind the three mermaid girls, cast out of the pod. They know there's only one way they will be allowed to rejoin the pod: They must get legs, venture onto land and take back Zac's powers – or risk being outcasts forever.
Best episode · S01E02 Getting Legs
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
201526 episodes
7.0IMDbMako is a magical Island that a pod of mermaids call home. Their peaceful lives are turned upside down when Zac, a merman develops a connection with the island that poses a threat to their existence. Ondina and Mimmi, two young mermaids from the Mako pod, are determined to break Zac's connection to Mako Island and reclaim Mako for the pod. As the mermaids struggle to take back his powers, they discover that his connection with Mako isn't quite an accident. New mermaids and mermen are met along the way, and some are even created!
Best episode · S02E02 Sticky Situation
Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
201616 episodes
8.4IMDbLife is trouble-free on Mako Island – until Ondina meets Weilan, a mermaid from the Eastern pod. They immediately clash and Mimmi must act as peacemaker. But a greater threat to their peace has arrived, in the form of a fearsome Chinese water dragon that once destroyed the Eastern pod. But the dragon is not all it appears to be. On their perilous quest to defeat the dragon, Zac and the mermaids discover shocking secrets until a final confrontation reveals all.
Best episode · S03E01 A Visit from the East
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
Outcasts
It's a full moon and the three mermaids Nixie, Lyla and Sirena are tasked to guard Mako and the moon pool. While Zac and Cam go camping on Mako island. When Zac falls into the moon pool they don't know what to do and leave him on the beach. The next day Zac finds out what he is and what he can do so he tells Cam. Because the girls let the "land boy" as they call him in the moon pool they are being cast out by their pod. So they decide to fix the problem.
S01E02
Getting Legs
Sirena, Lyla and Nixie must turn Zac back into a land boy. Using Sirena's Moon Ring, they give themselves legs and walk on land to begin their task.
S03E01
A Visit from the East
Ondina is tasked with teaching the younger mermaids. A mermaid from China joins the pod. During a full moon ceremony, a terrifying beast emerges.
S01E03
Meeting Rita
In trying to get the Moon Ring back, the mermaids uncover Rita's secret.
S02E01
The Seventh Cycle
When the pod decides Zac is a threat and must give up his merman powers, two new mermaids, Mimmi and Ondina, are sent to make sure he obeys.
Behind the series
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