Season 2 • Episode 11
LatestMr. Inglewood organizes a game of paintball, but Eve sticks to her ani-war convictions and refuses to participate. When Sam begins bragging about how his class trashed her class in the game, Eve changes her mind and takes him on.
Being Eve is a television series from New Zealand, originally shown on TV3 from 2001–2002, and rebroadcast on The N. Being Eve focuses on a teenage girl, Eve Baxter, and her daily problems. Her parents are divorced but live next door to each other. Eve was in love with a boy named Adam. They broke up at the beginning of the second season, and she ends up with another boy named Sam Hooper, whom she had her first kiss with when they were kids.
Production
Peak early-2000s New Zealand aesthetic, unapologetically local.
Writing
Voiceover that actually sounds like a real teenager's brain.
Acting
Fleur Saville carries every awkward moment perfectly.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the few NZ teen dramas to get US syndication on The N, paving the way for later Kiwi exports like Heartbreak High.
James Napier Robertson later directed The Dark Horse, one of NZ's most acclaimed films—quite the glow-up from teen soap.
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