The Insider's Guide To Happiness — Season 1, Episode 1: Is Happiness an Accident?

Episode synopsis

Julie, a thirty-something caterer, meets her husband Simon at a cafe to tell him the good news that she is pregnant, but his response is to choke on a mushroom and collapse. In the ambulance on the way to hospital Simon revives, just in time for the ambulance to swerve, lose control and smash into a parked car at a busy intersection. At the hospital, a doctor, William is ill-equipped to tell Julie that Simon died in the crash. Julie, in shock, goes home, collects all Simon's possessions and burns them in the bath. Then she returns to the café, demanding to know how one of their mushrooms can kill a man? The waitress is sympathetic and comments that maybe accidents happen for a reason. Julie suggests that maybe Simon lives on in the baby. We are introduced to Matthew, a good Samoan boy, and our narrator. Matthew runs across the road at a busy intersection - just in time to be hit by the out of control ambulance carrying Simon and Julie. Matthew is killed.

About The Insider's Guide To Happiness

The Insiders Guide To Happiness is a New Zealand drama series that explores the lives of a group of six previously unconnected people. Each life is connected by a bizarre car accident, the outcome of which forces them to examine and explore the happiness in their own lives. The series was followed by a prequel, The Insider's Guide To Love, with James the only character in common.

More episodes from Season 1

• E2Who Controls Your Happiness?
• E3Will the Truth Make You Happy?
• E4What Are You Afraid Of?
• E5Are you In Denial?
• E6Do You Deserve To Be Happy?
• E7What If You Could Start Over?
• E8Will You Be Happy Tomorrow?
• E9Who Taught You To Be Happy?
• E10Being Happy is Being Who You Are
• E11Does Happiness Grow Up?
• E12Can You Embrace A New Life?
• E13You Are Happy