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Please Don't Break Anything
What really happened that night?
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Please Don't Break Anything actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Please Don't Break Anything reads strongest on Serialized, Cliffhanger Intensity and Tension.
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.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The story
What it's about
Four months after a night gone horribly wrong, Billie holds a gathering in honour of her dead best friend. But as the night unfolds, she realises her mates may be hiding more than they seem.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Donald Mackenzie MayoExecutive Producer
- Bronwynn BakkerExecutive Producer
- Cam BakkerExecutive Producer
- Lealani SiaosiProducer
- Max GriffinExecutive Producer
Writing
- Donald Mackenzie MayoWriter
- Max GriffinWriter
Direction
- Damon Fepulea'iDirector
Where to watch
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