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Speaker 1: You're listening to this Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks atb This.

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Speaker 2: Twenty three past ten, which means it's Brah screen Time Time.

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Speaker 2: Tara Reward is our screen time expert. Every week she

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Speaker 2: brings in three shows for watching or streaming at home.

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Speaker 3: Golda Tara DA Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Let's begin, how with the show streaming on TVNZ plus

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Speaker 2: tell us about Atomic.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the first of three action packed dramas

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Speaker 3: that I'm talking about today. This is Atomic. It's a

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Speaker 3: British drama that takes place in the North African desert

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Speaker 3: and it's about an English drug smuggler who is trying

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Speaker 3: to get to beirute. He meets a man called Jj.

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Speaker 3: They are forced to team up and become partners in crime,

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Speaker 3: and Max's intended trip to deliver the drugs goes off track.

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Speaker 3: They end up smuggling uranium across the Middle East while

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Speaker 3: trying to avoid being caught by a CIA agent and

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Speaker 3: lots of other people who are after them as well.

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Speaker 3: And they have to make this decision do they say

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Speaker 3: themselves or do they stop the delivery of the uranium.

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Speaker 3: And this is a wild ride from the opening seconds

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Speaker 3: of the show This drama starts as it means to

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Speaker 3: go on. It's action packed, it's violent, and it throws

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Speaker 3: a lot at you to start wife, but it's got

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Speaker 3: some great energy and humor as well. And it's the

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Speaker 3: kind of show where you're never quite sure who is

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Speaker 3: good and who is bad. The two main characters are

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Speaker 3: anti heroes. I wouldn't necessarily trust them with anything, and

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Speaker 3: yet they have this huge kind of moral decision to make.

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Speaker 3: But this has lots of twists and turns, lots of

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Speaker 3: beautiful scenery and a great cast Alfie Allen, Shazzad Latif

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Speaker 3: and Samara Wiley Starr in this. And I kind of

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Speaker 3: came to this not really knowing what to expect, but

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Speaker 3: really enjoyed it great.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like a bit of me. That's atomic. Yes

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Speaker 2: on TVNZ plus on Neon tell Us about King and Conqueror.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're a fan of shows like Vikings or

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Speaker 3: The Last Kingdom or Game of Thrones, I think you'll

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Speaker 3: also like King and Conqueror. This is a new historical

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Speaker 3: drama starring Jameson and Juliet Stevenson, and it's about the

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Speaker 3: lead up to the Battle of Hastings in ten sixty

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Speaker 3: six and all the politics and power plays that were

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Speaker 3: going on between the English and the Normans before the battles.

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Speaker 3: So it's about the different families and all the characters

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Speaker 3: who are vying for power, but it's particularly about two men,

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Speaker 3: the Norman King William and England's King Harold, who both

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Speaker 3: have to navigate all sorts of threats and power plays

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Speaker 3: to get to where they are and who are destined

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Speaker 3: to meet and fight it out on the battlefield. I

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Speaker 3: don't know how historically accurate this show is my guess.

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Speaker 3: The vibe I get from it is that they've been

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Speaker 3: quite loose with the facts. It doesn't have the attention

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Speaker 3: to historical detail of something like wolf Hall, so just

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Speaker 3: adjust your expectations going into this. It is a bit

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Speaker 3: slow to start with. Lots of the scenes are filmed

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Speaker 3: in really low light, which I know can annoy a

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Speaker 3: lot of people. But if you love historical drama that

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Speaker 3: will transport you to another time of place and you

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Speaker 3: can look past the modern day dialogue and things like that,

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Speaker 3: this is definitely worth checking out.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's King and Conquerrent. It's on Neon and on Netflix.

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Speaker 3: Hostage, Yeah, Hostage came out on Netflix recently and went

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Speaker 3: straight away to being the most number one most watch

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Speaker 3: show here in New Zealand. This is a political thriller

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Speaker 3: stars Saran Jones, who's been in shows like Vigill and

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Speaker 3: Doctor Foster. She plays the British Prime Minister and she

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Speaker 3: has a difficult decision to make when her husband is

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Speaker 3: kidnapped and held hostage. Does she resign from the job

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Speaker 3: and give the terrorists what they want or does she

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Speaker 3: try and find out who is targeting her and her

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Speaker 3: family and work out if it's an inside job. Excuse me.

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Speaker 3: And at the same time as the kidnapping, the PM

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Speaker 3: is hosting the right wing French president who's played by

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Speaker 3: Julie Delby, who is facing her own political dramas behind

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Speaker 3: the scenes. So there's a lot bubbling away here. Blackmail, corruption, murder,

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Speaker 3: scandal and I again, I really enjoyed this one. It's

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Speaker 3: very much a Netflix thriller, so it's fast paced, lots

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Speaker 3: of surprises, a bit over the top, a bit silly

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Speaker 3: at times, but they really nail those dramatic end of

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Speaker 3: episode cliffhangers that just keep your watching, keep you hopped

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Speaker 3: into the next episode. This is just, you know, great entertainment.

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Speaker 3: It's very bungeable, strong performances and a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: Excellent. Okay, that sounds great. That's Hostage. It's on Netflix.

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Speaker 2: Have you seen speaking of vigil, have you seen series

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Speaker 2: two of Visual?

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Speaker 3: I don't know I have?

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Speaker 2: Is that available? Can we watch series two?

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Speaker 3: Serious? One was on TVNZ plus.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah I should, yeah, to see if we can

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Speaker 2: find it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I do wonder how they were top that first season

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Speaker 3: with the submarine and you know, where do you go

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Speaker 3: from there?

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Speaker 2: It was very very good, wasn't it. Yeh? So maybe yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think I noticed that.

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Speaker 1: You go.

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Speaker 2: It's on TVNS plus. Fantastic, Okay, that could be a

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Speaker 2: bit of me. Hey, I don't know if you've been

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Speaker 2: watching it, but I have really been getting into task

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Speaker 2: Master this season. It's just such a good cast. This

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Speaker 2: New Zealand series is such a good cast, like an

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Speaker 2: almost perfect cast. I would say. So, yeah, yeah, that's

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Speaker 2: my recommendation too. I'll add to your list.

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Speaker 3: I agree. And it's it's so lovely just to have

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Speaker 3: something kind of silly and just fun to watch.

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Speaker 2: Silly and creator and yeah, yeah it is, and they're

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Speaker 2: all sort of the cast will kind of compliment each

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Speaker 2: other I just think it's stupendous. So if if you

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Speaker 2: feel like a bit of escapis a bit of a

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Speaker 2: laugh midweek, I'm going to add Taskmaster to your list

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Speaker 2: this week. Thank you so much, Tara, So those shows

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Speaker 2: once again. Hostage is on Netflix, King and Conqueror is

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Speaker 2: on Neon. In that first show, Tara talked about the

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Speaker 2: one with Them and the British action thriller about the

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Speaker 2: guys who are smuggling Uranium is on TVNZ Plus and

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Speaker 2: that one's called Atomic. All of those shows will be

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Speaker 2: on the News Talks website of course.

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