''Soul Mates'' is a 2014 Australian comedy series created by and starring

Christiaan Van Vuuren Christiaan Van Vuuren (born 1982), known as The Fully Sick Rapper in his first video series, is an actor, writer, director and video blogging, video blogger from Sydney, Australia. He often collaborates with his brother, Connor Van Vuuren, and t ...

and

Nicholas Boshier Nicholas Boshier is an Australian actor. Boshier gained fame after he was revealed to be the actor portraying YouTube celebrity Trent from Punchy, a character whom the film's director Anthony MacFarlane had previously lied about and insisted was ...

, co-written by Van Vuuren's brother

Connor Van Vuuren Connor Van Vuuren () is an Australian stuntman, writer, actor, and director. He co-wrote and co-directed the TV mini-series '' Bondi Hipsters'' with his brother Christiaan Van Vuuren. He has created, written, directed and starred in two seasons ...

, screened on

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. It features the same characters, as friends who met in a different era, as ''Bondi Hipsters'' (2011). ''Soul Mates'' follows the story of a couple of friends who are continually drawn together across the course of human history. In 2014, they are fashion-obsessed hipsters from

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. In prehistoric times, they experience all of life's firsts as a couple of

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. In 1981 they are two New Zealand secret agents known as the Kiwi Assassins. In the year 2093 they are working in a time travel agency called Ticky Time Tours, tackling time travel conundrums. Previous online projects by Van Vuuren and Boshier include ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''The Fully Sick Rapper''.

Plot summary

Cavemen

Sticks (Boshier) and Rocky (Van Vuuren) are two cavemen, who tackle the new questions of prehistoric life. How do you find a woman? Is it alright to eat babies, or gods? They also tackle Rocky's self-destructive addictions to staring at the sun and spinning. In the second series, Rocky returns and introduces the tribe to the concepts of capitalism, management, currency, banking and democracy.

Kiwi Assassins

Possum exterminator Terry Thinge (Boshier) is recruited by Mum ( Rachel House), the head of New Zealand's Munustry of Dufinse, and paired with disgraced rugby player Roger Blade (Van Vuuren). Their first mission as the Kiwi Assassins is to convince a young actor named

Russell Crowe Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is an actor. He was born in New Zealand, spent ten years of his childhood in Australia, and moved there permanently at age twenty one. He came to international attention for his role as Roman General Maxi ...

to forsake Australia and return to his native New Zealand. Their next task is to restore New Zealand's dairy supremacy by infiltrating a farm where the Aussies claim to have invented "Fizzy Milk". In the second series, Roger and Thinge go undercover at an Australian school whose rugby team has beaten the New Zealand Under-16s for several years in a row. Using an extract from the heart of

Phar Lap Phar Lap (4 October 1926 – 5 April 1932) was a champion New Zealand–bred Thoroughbred racehorse who is widely regarded as New Zealand's greatest racehorse ever. Achieving incredible success during his distinguished career, his initial ...

, the school is enhancing and brainwashing Kiwi students into thinking they are Australian. Thinge's relationship with Mum and his step-son Roger is under strain, making Roger susceptible to Australian brainwashing.

Bondi Hipsters

Adrian "Aids" Archer (Boshier) and Dom Nader (Van Vuuren) are hipsters living together in Bondi. They are setting up a fashion label and seek yoga master Phoenix as their brand ambassador. Dom secretly works as a vacuum cleaner salesman at 'The Vacuum Guys', and their friendship and label are put in peril when Adrian finds out. In the second series, Adrian has sworn off ever using "the fashion" again. When his and Dom's "closed cafe" concept fails, Adrian is tempted by a charismatic yoga teacher to exploit a shocking secret from Dom's past.

Time Travel Agency (Series 1)

Best mates Rob (Boshier) and Dave (Van Vuuren) work at a time travel agency called Travel Time Time Travel, and are planning to 'pitch' Time Tiki tours, an epic party across all the best parties in human history. Rob is given a promotion and promises it won't change him, but he returns upgraded to the terrifying cyborg Roboss 2000. A resentful Dave fetches himself from another timeline to be his new best mate, and their ensuing adventures result in the deaths of Hitler, Jesus and eventually Dave himself.

Ancient Egypt (Series 2)

Seti (Boshier) is the bastard son of Egyptian queen

Hatshepsut Hatshepsut (; also Hatchepsut; Egyptian: '' ḥꜣt- špswt'' "Foremost of Noble Ladies"; or Hatasu c. 1507–1458 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. She was the second historically confirmed female pharaoh, aft ...

, and the brother of the psychotic half-bird

Thutmose Thutmose (also rendered Thutmoses, Thutmosis, Tuthmose, Tutmosis, Thothmes, Tuthmosis, Thutmes, Djhutmose, Djehutymes, etc.) is an Anglicization of the Ancient Egyptian personal name ''dhwty-ms'', usually translated as "Born of the god Thoth". Th ...

. Assigned to construct a tomb for Thutmose, Seti works with a slave named Amram (Van Vuuren), who teaches him a thing or two and whom he comes to admire.

Series overview

Episodes

(Episode information retrieved from Australian Television Information Archive).

Series 1 (2014)

Series 2 (2016)

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards

The

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are a set of annual ceremonies presented by

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(ARIA), which recognise excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of the

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Soul Mates 2014 Australian television series debuts Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming Australian comedy television series