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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at be.

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Speaker 2: Screen Time Time with Tara Award our screen time Experts.

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Speaker 2: She's got three shows for us this weekend. Hey, Tara,

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Speaker 2: A new season of Severance is out. This is the

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Speaker 2: second season. It's on Apple TV Plus. So tell us

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Speaker 2: about Severance.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I know a lot of people have been looking forward

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Speaker 4: to this series. It's been three years since the first

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Speaker 4: season dropped. And Seference is one of those shows that

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Speaker 4: everyone who watches it and sticks with it because it

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Speaker 4: is a little unusual says that it's one of the

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Speaker 4: best shows they have ever seen. This is a psychological

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Speaker 4: thriller and it's in that sort of sane, dystopian, uneasy

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Speaker 4: vein as Black Mirror, and it's about a man named

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Speaker 4: Mark who's played by Adam Scott, and his workplace colleagues

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Speaker 4: who have all voluntarily undergone a medical procedure that separates

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Speaker 4: their work selves from their home selves. So when Mark

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Speaker 4: is at work, he loses all his memory about his

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Speaker 4: life at home and vice versa, so he hears these

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Speaker 4: two personalities and it's playing with that idea of having

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Speaker 4: that perfect work life balance. But when a new employee

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Speaker 4: starts at this mega corporation who is quite rebellious. Mark

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Speaker 4: starts to question things and his two separate lives start

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Speaker 4: to crossover in ways that they shouldn't. I mean, as

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Speaker 4: it sounds, it is a very unusual show, but it's

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Speaker 4: surprising and it's clever, and it's one of those shows

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Speaker 4: that you won't always know where you are with it,

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Speaker 4: but it's done so beautifully and intelligently that it just

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Speaker 4: pulls you in. It really leans into that mundaneeness of

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Speaker 4: office life. And it's got this amazing cast Adam Scott,

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Speaker 4: Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken. It's directed by Ben Stiller. Everything

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Speaker 4: about it is quality, and it's a show that has

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Speaker 4: a little bit of everything in it, comedy, mystery, dystopia.

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Speaker 4: There's probably nothing else like it on television at the

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Speaker 4: moment in terms of originality and creativity.

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Speaker 3: So if you want to watch something that's.

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Speaker 4: A little bit thought provoking and it's going to get

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Speaker 4: you know, the brain ticking over, I really recommend this one.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic Okay, that's Severance that's on Apple TV Plus on Netflix.

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Speaker 2: The Night Agent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a second season.

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Speaker 4: Of this great American political thriller, and there's a key

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Speaker 4: we link to the show that starts Luciani the Buchanan

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Speaker 4: who has been in shows like The Broken Wood Mysteries

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Speaker 4: and Filthy Rich, but who has now reached international start

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Speaker 4: and with a starring role in one of Netflix's biggest shows.

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Speaker 3: So this is a conspiracy thriller.

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Speaker 4: It's about a low level FBI agent who works at

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Speaker 4: night in the basement of the White House and it's

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Speaker 4: his job to answer a phone that never rings until

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Speaker 4: one night he gets a call. It's from a woman

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Speaker 4: who's played by Luciannie Buchanan who needs his help and

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Speaker 4: he gets pulled into this conspiracy that takes.

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Speaker 3: Him right back to the White House.

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Speaker 4: And if you like The Born Ultimatum, if you like Reacher,

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Speaker 4: if you like a fast paced thriller that's easy to watch,

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Speaker 4: I think you'll love this. It feels a bit like

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Speaker 4: a spy thriller from the nineties, and I don't mean

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Speaker 4: that in a bad way, but it's it kind of

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Speaker 4: sticks to a tried and true recipe villains and your heroes.

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Speaker 3: There's action, an espionage, and suspense.

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Speaker 4: It does the basics really really well, and you know,

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Speaker 4: at times it gets a bit sillian, a bit ridiculous,

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Speaker 4: but you don't.

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Speaker 3: Mind those moments because it is such a fun watch.

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Speaker 4: And you know, like any good Netflix show, very vengeable,

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Speaker 4: some lay cliffhangers to pull you into that episode.

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Speaker 2: Mind Okay, Cool. So that's The Night Agent back for

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Speaker 2: a second season on Netflix and on Neon. Tell us

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Speaker 2: about Karen Pirii.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is one for crime drama fans. This is

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Speaker 4: a new Scottish murder mystery on Neon.

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Speaker 3: It's set in.

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Speaker 4: Beautiful Saint Andrew's and it's based on a book by

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Speaker 4: criter Val mcdermit, and it's about a young female de

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Speaker 4: technic called Karen Perry who is investigating a cold case

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Speaker 4: from the nineteen nineties involving a murdered barm The case

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Speaker 4: originally went unsolved, but there's a new podcast that has

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Speaker 4: reignited public interest and Karen is told to find the

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Speaker 4: answers and shut things down. She finds the three men

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Speaker 4: who were the original suspects, but what she also discovers.

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Speaker 3: Is a whole lot of flaws and mistakes in the

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Speaker 3: original inquiry.

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Speaker 4: And the show jumps back and forward between nineteen ninety

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Speaker 4: five and the current time, So the two investigations into

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Speaker 4: the same case play out beside each other, which I

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Speaker 4: really liked and what I also really liked about this

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Speaker 4: for once at a crime drama, the main detective isn't

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Speaker 4: one of those sort of really troubled, terrible people who

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Speaker 4: is bringing a lot of emotional baggage to the job.

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Speaker 4: She's just a very smart woman and again a bit

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Speaker 4: like The Night Agent. It's not trying to be anything

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Speaker 4: else other than a solid, very watchable TV drama.

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Speaker 3: It feels very current. It's got this beautiful setting.

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Speaker 4: Lauren Lyle, who was an Outlander, she plays Karen and

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Speaker 4: she's great in this.

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Speaker 3: She won a Scottish Baftor for this role.

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Speaker 4: So you know, if you love a crime drama or

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Speaker 4: a a mystery, or if you're a fan of a

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Speaker 4: really good British drama, I think this is a great week.

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Speaker 2: You watch superb Okay, that's Karen Perry, that's on Neon,

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Speaker 2: The Night Agents on Netflix, and Severance is on Apple

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Speaker 2: TV Plus. But don't worry if you're not scribbling that

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Speaker 2: down or typing it into your phone. We're gonna have

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Speaker 2: all of those shows up on the news talks. He'd

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Speaker 2: be websites, so you can find out more about them there.

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