Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

If someone in your family suggests you have a look at Patrick Gower's alcohol documentary, perhaps you should take the hint.I watched it before coming to work this morning and I've read some of what's been written about it online.The way I understand it, Gower didn't set out on a journey of self-discovery.The plan to begin with was a serious investigation of New Zealanders' relationship with alcohol, and why we're some of the heaviest boozers on the planet.But it became very personal.Now, I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, but the are some very candid, revealing, awkward and downright embarrassing scenes of Patrick Gower off his face.So what's the value of that you might ask? You can walk around any main centre of any town in the country at night and you'll see that.I think the value of it was to show very bluntly, and in a way anyone can understand, how normal it is for us to see alcohol being used to excess, even if we don't do it ourselves.And for the most part, we think it's funny