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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: Ab Cal Pushman is in for this week's screen time.

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Speaker 2: Three shows to watch from the company You Couch, Get

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Speaker 2: a Carl Wandering Jack. Let's begin with the final season

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Speaker 2: of Stranger Things.

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Speaker 3: It's the big news this week. The cult classic finally

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Speaker 3: takes us back to the upside down for the last time.

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Speaker 3: Almost we almost get all the way there, which I'll

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Speaker 3: explain about in a second. But the hype around the

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Speaker 3: show has just been huge. You know, Stranger Things is

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Speaker 3: a bona fide cult classic. It was one of Netflix's

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Speaker 3: first big global breakout hits when it launched in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 3: so it's crazy to think that it's been running for

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Speaker 3: almost ten years, which sort of makes you feel a

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Speaker 3: bit oh, doesn't it. Yeah, that time marches on and

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Speaker 3: the biggest suspension of disbelief you need to know now

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Speaker 3: isn't really buying into the demonic underworld of what's going

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Speaker 3: on in the small town of Hawkins. But it's at

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Speaker 3: the core. Cast of twenty something actors are still high

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Speaker 3: school age, are saying to look a little bit old.

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Speaker 3: So it is quite glad that we're in the final

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Speaker 3: season the home stretch. Now, now that isn't a problem

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Speaker 3: for our very own nol Fisher, who joined the cast

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Speaker 3: for this final season. She's been tipped as our next

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Speaker 3: big acting thing. And you might recognize her from last

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Speaker 3: year's excellent family adventure film Bookworm, which was from Stranger

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Speaker 3: Thing you know, sorry, the Strange Film Festival curator and Tipson,

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Speaker 3: where she start alongside Elijah Wood, which was just a great,

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Speaker 3: great family film. She plays a really prominent part in this.

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Speaker 3: You know, she's only fourteen and she plays a really

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Speaker 3: prominent part in this final season and she's just great,

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Speaker 3: really great. Yeah, the story picks up eighteen months after

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Speaker 3: we last saw everyone and there was the big apocalyptic ending.

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Speaker 3: It's eighteen months on the towns and Quarantine and the

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Speaker 3: core group are sort of doing recon missions back into

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Speaker 3: the upside down just to make sure that the big

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Speaker 3: bad Vickner is actually demised. Whether it is or not,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but there's a lot of evilness going

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Speaker 3: on still, so there's a lot to go. And I

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Speaker 3: mentioned it wasn't quite the final time. Netflix are doing

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Speaker 3: that thing where they split the final season and sort

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Speaker 3: of tease it out, so we've got four episodes. Now,

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Speaker 3: Christmas Day there'll be another couple, and then on Prime

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Speaker 3: TV viewing night of New Year's Eve, the final episode drops.

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Speaker 2: Wow, here's a curious time to drop it.

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Speaker 3: It is. It is. Now. What I'm thinking though, is

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Speaker 3: that because we're globally we're in the upside down, that

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Speaker 3: all might happen for us on Boxing Day or New

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Speaker 3: Year's Day, which acually works out quite well.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, that would be very good. Actually, yeah, okay, cool,

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Speaker 2: So that's a stranger thing. It's on Netflix, on Disney

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Speaker 2: Plus the Beatles Anthology.

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Speaker 3: It's been a good run for Beatles fans lately. You know.

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Speaker 3: Last year we had Sir Pete's excellent Get Back, the

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Speaker 3: eight hour massive documentary which was of filming Let It Be,

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Speaker 3: which was just amazing. Then after that there was the

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Speaker 3: Martin Scoosese he produced Beatles sixty four, which detailed their

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Speaker 3: first tour of America, their big breakthrough tour in America.

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Speaker 3: And now this is a remaster, you know, so peeks

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Speaker 3: back at it again. It's a big remaster of the

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Speaker 3: Beatles Anthology series which came out back in the nineties. So,

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Speaker 3: you know, Beagles fans from back then we'll know it.

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Speaker 3: There's nothing new really here. Well there's one new episode

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Speaker 3: tacked on to the end, but it's pretty much just

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Speaker 3: a remaster of the original series, which you know, it's

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Speaker 3: still brilliant. It looks amazing. Giles Martin, the son of

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Speaker 3: original Beagles producer George Martin, has gone back and redone

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Speaker 3: all the sounds, so it sounds incredible. You know, it's

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Speaker 3: using that technology that they use to do get back,

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Speaker 3: so it's never looked better. They never sounded better. Brilliant

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Speaker 3: viewing if you're a Beatles.

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Speaker 2: Fan, Yeah, very good. Okay, so that's on Disney Plus,

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Speaker 2: that's Beatles Anthology and on Tevy and z Plus. Here

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Speaker 2: we go.

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Speaker 3: Yes, this British sitcom. It's flown under the radar. It's

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Speaker 3: kind of old school in some ways where it's a sitcom,

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Speaker 3: but it's not the hand laughter you know, crazy wacky

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Speaker 3: next door neighbor kind of thing. I thought does have

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Speaker 3: a crazy uncle in the in the show, but it's

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Speaker 3: it's very incredibly funny. It stars Catherine Parkinson, who you

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Speaker 3: might know from the very good It Crowd comedy which

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Speaker 3: she plays sort of the same kind of character here.

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Speaker 3: It's about a dysfunctional family in a British town, and

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Speaker 3: the gimmick of the show is sort of that their

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Speaker 3: teenage son is filming the series constantly filming everyone. That

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Speaker 3: sort of gets played down a bit as it goes on.

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Speaker 3: The real big twist that the series does so brilliantly

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Speaker 3: it flashes back and you start to see how they

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Speaker 3: ended up in these chaotic situations. So it plays around

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Speaker 3: with the timeline, so it jumps backwards and forwards and

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Speaker 3: it's just really clever. And so when it finds screw

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Speaker 3: it is so funny. I found myself sometimes just in

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Speaker 3: tears of laughter. It just nails it. So it's it's

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Speaker 3: got a cult following. TV and Z Plus has all

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Speaker 3: three seasons. There is a fourth season coming out next year,

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Speaker 3: so you know it's it's not a dead series. It's

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Speaker 3: definitely worth checking out and it's incredibly funny.

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Speaker 2: Oh it sounds really good. Okay, I'm looking forward to

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Speaker 2: watching that.

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Speaker 3: That's a bit of me.

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Speaker 2: I love a British that come anyway. So that's here

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Speaker 2: we go. That's on TV and Z Plus. The Beatles

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Speaker 2: Anthology is on Disney Plus and Stranger Things. The final

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Speaker 2: season is streaming on Netflix. All of those shows will

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Speaker 2: be on the News Talks website, and of course you

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Speaker 2: can hear more from Karl on his sub stack. It's

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Speaker 2: called screen Crack.

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