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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks. AB.

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Speaker 2: Karl Pushman is here with this week's screen Time pickskid

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Speaker 2: A Carl Jack. Hello, let's begin with the show is

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Speaker 2: streaming on Disney Plus. Tell us about wonder Man.

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Speaker 3: Yes, this is Marvel's latest which sees them finally cracking

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Speaker 3: the code of making a Marvel show that people who

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Speaker 3: aren't actually into Marvel will dig. There are very little

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Speaker 3: superpowers and even less spandex. Instead, it's a low key

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Speaker 3: character study about the struggles of making it as an

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Speaker 3: actor in Hollywood, so it's very meta in that way.

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Speaker 3: The show follows a want to be actor and a

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Speaker 3: washed up actor who become friends, both hiding a secret

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Speaker 3: from the other, being a Marvel property. There's no prizes

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Speaker 3: for guessing what their respective secrets might be, but as

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Speaker 3: their friendship grows, so too does the pressure on those secrets,

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Speaker 3: especially after they both get callbacks to start in the

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Speaker 3: new wonder Man movie. So it sort of takes you

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Speaker 3: behind the scenes of Hollywood, which is quite cool. See auditions,

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Speaker 3: self taping, the process of acting, and there's lots of

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Speaker 3: very earnest discussions about the craft Yahya Abdul Martin stars

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Speaker 3: as lead Simon Wilson. He's the struggling actor. Well, Ben

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Speaker 3: Kingsley returns to the MCU as Trevor Slattery, and he

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Speaker 3: is the washed up actor, and he is just brilliant

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Speaker 3: in this role, dispensing all kinds of acting advice and

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Speaker 3: almost doing a masterclass and teaching about acting while on

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Speaker 3: the show. To watch the pair of them together is

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Speaker 3: really quite a joy. That they have wonderful chemistry, and

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Speaker 3: there's scenes where they're trading Shakespearean's lines to each other

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Speaker 3: and having these big, earnest discussions about acting. It's really

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Speaker 3: quite something. So it's almost completely siloed from the MCU.

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Speaker 3: There's no callbacks, no Easter eggs, none of that kind

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Speaker 3: of stuff, which can make these shows quite difficult to

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Speaker 3: get into if you're not a study of that multi

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Speaker 3: webbed layered Marvel cinematic universe. So I quite enjoyed that.

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Speaker 3: I found it quite refreshing. It's quite similar to the Studio,

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Speaker 3: not quite as funny that was seth Rogan's Hollywood inside

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Speaker 3: a show, So they both both pulled the curtain back

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Speaker 3: on the process of making movies. The studio, of course,

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Speaker 3: also starred Katherine O'Hara, who unfortunately passed away this morning.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, very sad news there. But yes, Wonder Man,

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Speaker 3: if you're suffering superhero fag fatigue, the show could be

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Speaker 3: the cure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very good. Okay, that sounds interesting, soay it's on

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Speaker 2: Disney Plus it's wonder maz on neon Memory of a Killer. Yes.

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Speaker 3: Patrick Dempsey goes from saving lives on er as McDreamy

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Speaker 3: to ending them as a hitman in this action thriller drama.

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Speaker 3: He stars as Angelo, who's a man leading a double life.

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Speaker 3: To his family. He's a dorky, mild mannered photocopy of salesman,

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Speaker 3: but when he leaves for work in the morning, he's

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Speaker 3: a lethal, clinical pro hitman who swaps his dorky dad's

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Speaker 3: sweaters for cool shades and designer suits. So the series

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Speaker 3: opens with a thrilling hit on a crime boss, which

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Speaker 3: could be straight out of, you know, a classic hit

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Speaker 3: man type movie. It's really quite thrilling, an inventive, and

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Speaker 3: it just shows you how bad this dude is. Things

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Speaker 3: heat up when the double life that he has spent

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Speaker 3: decades crafting keeping these two worlds completely separate, start to

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Speaker 3: collide as he and himself, so he and his family

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Speaker 3: find themselves targets of an unknown assassin.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: This all sounds fairly by the book, right, But the

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Speaker 3: wrinkle comes when Angelo starts to suffer from early onset

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Speaker 3: Alzheimer's disease, which is a condition that runs in his family.

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Speaker 3: This turns his search for the people who are after

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Speaker 3: him into a desperate race against the clock and also

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Speaker 3: allows the show to pull some neat tricks, so you're

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Speaker 3: never quite sure what Angelo has or hasn't actually done.

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Speaker 3: In that regard, he sort of becomes an unreliable narrator

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Speaker 3: while you're watching the show. So, yeah, it's quite interesting

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Speaker 3: what they're doing there. Yeah, critics haven't been too kind

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Speaker 3: to the show, but the audio and score, like aggregate

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Speaker 3: sights is pretty high. I'm three episodes and I'm siding

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Speaker 3: with the people. It's keep me engaged, intrigued. There's some

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Speaker 3: really cool action scenes in it, so I'm keen to

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Speaker 3: watch more.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, very good. It sounds like a good be

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Speaker 2: worth a bit of a crack. So that's memory of

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Speaker 2: a killer that's on neon. Carl's first pick for us

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Speaker 2: this week is wonder Man, which is on Disney Plus,

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Speaker 2: and you can hear more from Karl on his substack.

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Speaker 2: Of course, screen crack

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