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New Zealand's newest spies - and the only three who applied - are tasked with protecting our nation from incoming threats, most notably those noisy neighbours in Australia.
Start with the closest match, then check out two more shows with a similar feel, pace, mood, or theme.
A dysfunctional team of MI5 agents navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend the UK from sinister forces.
Slow Horses delivers the same dry, bureaucratic spy-comedy pleasure as New Zealand Spy, with tradecraft that looks messy and people who get punished for small mistakes. The office hierarchy and grudges drive the danger, and the deadpan humor keeps the tension grounded in workplace humiliation.
Follows a man who investigates a conspiracy after an embarrassing incident at work.
The Chair Company keeps the spy-spoof energy of New Zealand Spy, where official roles turn into a joke and then into something genuinely unsettling. Workplace embarrassment escalates into paranoid mystery beats, so you get the same escalating tension, but with stranger, more surreal dread than 1970s parochial rivalry.
Chaos collides with the letter of the law at District Court Patparganj, where quirky employees work to uphold justice but not without a few objections.
Maamla Legal Hai shares New Zealand Spy’s love of institutional absurdity, where earnest people collide with petty rules and chaotic office routines. Courtroom workplace comedy gives you the same sustained, character-driven friction and light stakes, but it stays warmer and more procedural than spy-genre danger.
