Tatau

Tatau

2015 · 1 season · 8 eps · ★ 4.9 · Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Canceled

Tatau follows Kyle and Budgie, two twenty-something friends from London that set off to travel the world. Ahead of the journey, Kyle gets a Maori-style tattoo to celebrate their eventual destination: the Cook Islands. When snorkeling in a lagoon, Kyle finds the dead body of a local girl, Aumea, tied up underwater. Returning to the lagoon with the police, Kyle finds her corpse has disappeared. But Kyle knows what he saw. Desperate to uncover what happened, Kyle and Budgie find themselves sucked deeper and deeper into a world of Maori myths, symbols, and hallucinatory visions... until finally the full meaning of Kyle’s tattoo is revealed.

Created by Richard Zajdlic

Network: BBC Three

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Joe Layton Kyle Connor
Theo Barklem-Biggs Pete 'Budgie' Griffiths
Cian Elyse White Lara Morgan
Rangimoana Taylor Chief Matikutu
Alex Tarrant Maui Vaipiti
Tai Berdinner-Blades Tyler
Barry Atsma Dries
Andre King Peckham
Shushila Takao Aumea Vaipiti
Joe Folau Dan Taringa
Kirk Torrance Reverend Calcott
Temuera Morrison Anaru Vaipiti

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