Miranda Tapsell's Top End Bub will stab you in the heart (then stitch it back together).

Clear your weekend plans because Prime Video's Top End Bub is here to delight you (and probably devastate you, too). Because why can't we have both!

Following the huge success of the 2019 film Top End Wedding, the beloved Australian rom-com — starring Aussie acting icon Miranda Tapsell and Bohemian Rhapsody's Gwilym Lee — continues with the new television series sequel.

The creative force behind the original film, Tapsell and Joshua Tyler, have once again teamed up as creators and writers for the series.

The decision to make the sequel a series — rather than another movie — was an easy one.

"Everyone was invested in a sequel, and even me, as a viewer, I can't commit to a two-hour film, but I can binge four episodes that go for two hours," Tapsell told Mamamia.

"There's just no logic behind it [laughs], but you're gripped when you're binge-watching something. And it just means you've got more screen time to explore the story."

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The eight-part series revisits Lauren and Ned's love story five years after they got hitched.

Top End Bub finds the couple still as loved-up as ever, married and settled in Adelaide, with Lauren now running her own law firm and Ned a café owner.

But when tragedy strikes in Lauren's close-knit family, the couple are thrust into unexpected parenthood when they become the guardians of their eight-year-old niece Taya (Bub), and must venture back to the Northern Territory's Top End.

This series has so much heart. The inspiration for Top End Bub stems directly from Tapsell's upbringing with the Larrakia woman growing up in Jabiru in West Arnhem Land.

Ursula Yovich as the family matriarch is sensational. Image: Prime Video.

The community spirit and 'mob carrying the load' mentality depicted in this series was something that the Logie-winner experienced in her own upbringing.

"My uncles, aunties, my nan and pop were so invested in my upbringing," she said. "The fact that everyone in the show steps in to look after Bub after this family tragedy was so truthful to me."

Another theme that the series tackles with nuance and honesty is Lauren's internal struggles over whether she wants to be a parent. While Ned is realising he had been ignoring his paternal urges because Lauren didn't want to have kids, Lauren is still left grappling with uncertainty as the series unfolds.

This crisis is something that Tapsell could relate to in the years before she and her husband, James Colley, became parents to their daughter Grace Birri-Pa Purnarrika Colley and son, Vincent Anthony Jalamin Colley.

"I was absolutely at that crossroads when I was writing this show. Obviously, I'm a mum-of-two now, and I'm so happy. It's what I wanted," she said.

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"But I wanted everything. I wanted to move to LA to see what the American industry was like… I wasn't quite ready to have a kid when I was first writing the show. I was really exploring: what do you give up when you become a parent, and what do you gain?"

The series' take on modern parenthood was something Gwilym Lee found refreshing.

"What I loved is that [creators] Miranda and Josh hadn't just continued straight on from the film in a conventional way where we find them having a baby," the English actor said.

"Five years later, they've chosen to be a child-free couple — that in itself is just a great setup for a series because we don't really have that conversation very much about people that choose not to have children."

Lauren and Ned begin the series child-free. Image: Prime Video.

The cast is all in fine form with Shari Sebbins, Elaine Crombie, Huw Higginson, Tracy Mann and Guy Simon all bringing their best work.

Acclaimed actress and singer, Ursula Youvich, as Lauren's mother Daffy is every bit as good as she is in Top End Wedding — she's the beating heart of the series.

But there's no denying, there's one scene-stealer in the mix: newcomer Gladys-May Kelly as Taya aka Bub in her first on-screen role.

"When we looked at so many talented young Aboriginal girls, I was just blown away by their confidence in front of the camera. But with Gladys, there was just a natural sense of self," Tapsell said.

"She's just unguarded, isn't she?" added Lee.

"She wasn't putting on a face or anything. It was just her — uncomplicated and there was this innocence about her."

Gladys-May Kelly is a star in the making. Image: Prime Video.

The series is the perfect show to watch with your family, or on a date night, bringing hours of heartfelt drama, laugh-out-loud comedy (a mysterious cowboy character made me howl!), and the same breathtaking NT scenery that made Top End Wedding such a family favourite.

Along with all the sugary rom-com feels, Top End Bub offers a tender exploration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, and the bonds that help us heal through periods of grief.

"Families can exist in many different shapes and forms. Sometimes you need to look beyond the nuclear family to find out what that is," Lee said.

"I think the idea that it takes a village to raise a child, we've lost touch with that in modern society. Family can be a different thing than what you expected it to be."

Feature image: Prime Video.