The Johnsons: Anders, Mike, Axl, Ty & Grandpa
Who knew that the best show currently on broadcast TV would be from New Zealand?
Funny, smart and hip, it’s the story of Norse gods whose ancestors were exiled to the southern hemisphere by the rampant fundamentalist Christianity of late 19th century Europe. What makes it all work, though, isn’t the “God stuff”, as they call it on the show, but the family dynamic.
Emmett Skilton (Axl Johnson) plays the perfect awkward young man trying to find his place in the world, and his brothers (played by Tim Balme, Dean O’Gorman, and Jared Turner) are, well, brothers…you want to kill them one minute and…kill them again the next.
It’s shown in Canada on Space on Monday nights, where they are currently about 2/3 of the way through the second season. However, if you haven’t watched it at all, I recommend watching the whole series from scratch. Although each episode hangs together nicely as a unique story, the character development is very much serialized, as you would expect from people learning to cope with their godly powers.
Season three is currently shooting in NZ.
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