Soul Mates is an Australian comedy series starring Christiaan Van Vuuren and Nicholas Boshier, screened on ABC2. 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 a pair of fashion-obsessed Bondi Hipsters. In prehistoric times, they experience all of life's firsts as a couple of cavemen. 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. Soul Mates is created, written, produced and directed by Connor Van Vuuren, Christiaan Van Vuuren and Nicholas Boshier. Their previous online projects include Bondi Hipsters, Beached Az, Trent from Punchy and The Fully Sick Rapper.
Plot summary
Cavemen
Sticks and Rocky 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 is recruited by Mum, the head of New Zealand's Munustry of Dufinse, and paired with disgraced rugby player Roger Blade. Their first mission as the Kiwi Assassins is to convince a young actor named Russell Crowe 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, 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 and Dom Nader are hipstersliving 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.
Best mates Rob and Dave 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.
Seti is the bastard son of Egyptian queen Hatshepsut, and the brother of the psychotic half-bird Thutmose. Assigned to construct a tomb for Thutmose, Seti works with a slave named Amram, who teaches him a thing or two and whom he comes to admire.
