1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,453 Speaker 1: from News Talks. 3 00:00:11,453 --> 00:00:14,373 Speaker 2: A'd be it's time to get your screen time picks 4 00:00:14,373 --> 00:00:18,493 Speaker 2: for this weekend. Carl Pushman is here with his two 5 00:00:18,733 --> 00:00:20,333 Speaker 2: picks for this weekend, Get a cow. 6 00:00:21,173 --> 00:00:22,853 Speaker 3: Good morning, Jack, care are you you very well? 7 00:00:22,893 --> 00:00:24,573 Speaker 2: Thank you? So we're going to begin with the show 8 00:00:24,653 --> 00:00:27,293 Speaker 2: on neon this week, tell us about a Night of 9 00:00:27,333 --> 00:00:28,533 Speaker 2: the Seven Kingdoms. 10 00:00:29,413 --> 00:00:31,613 Speaker 3: Well, this is the second spin off in the Game 11 00:00:31,653 --> 00:00:34,493 Speaker 3: of Thrones franchise. Now, when you think Game of Thrones, 12 00:00:34,533 --> 00:00:38,373 Speaker 3: you think grand scheming between great families, deep political intrigue, 13 00:00:38,733 --> 00:00:42,373 Speaker 3: big bloody battles between nations, sometimes with dragons, and Night 14 00:00:42,413 --> 00:00:45,453 Speaker 3: of the Seven Kingdoms has none of that. Instead, it's 15 00:00:45,453 --> 00:00:49,813 Speaker 3: a small story about two inconsequential characters with relatively low stakes, 16 00:00:50,253 --> 00:00:52,413 Speaker 3: and I think it's all the better for it. The 17 00:00:53,253 --> 00:00:56,813 Speaker 3: series follows two characters, the affably dim witted Dunk He's 18 00:00:56,853 --> 00:00:58,733 Speaker 3: a hedge night, which is named that because they have 19 00:00:58,813 --> 00:01:01,093 Speaker 3: no lord or castle, so tend to wander around the 20 00:01:01,133 --> 00:01:04,813 Speaker 3: land sleeping under hedges, and his squire, a precocious intelligent 21 00:01:04,853 --> 00:01:08,253 Speaker 3: child named egg usumably on account of his bullhead. And 22 00:01:08,293 --> 00:01:11,693 Speaker 3: it's all about their misadventure misadventures entering a big justing 23 00:01:11,813 --> 00:01:14,373 Speaker 3: tournament which they hope to win against much better prepared, 24 00:01:14,493 --> 00:01:18,213 Speaker 3: much better trained, and much wealthy opponents. After a night 25 00:01:18,213 --> 00:01:20,653 Speaker 3: of drinking with the Lord a Barathian for anyone who 26 00:01:20,653 --> 00:01:22,333 Speaker 3: knows what that means in the Game of Thrones world, 27 00:01:22,733 --> 00:01:25,333 Speaker 3: Dunk asks how much chance he has of winning the tournament, 28 00:01:25,453 --> 00:01:28,413 Speaker 3: to which the reply is no chance. And that's it. 29 00:01:28,653 --> 00:01:32,053 Speaker 3: That's the show. There's no political maneuvering, there's no big 30 00:01:32,093 --> 00:01:36,253 Speaker 3: backsteading plots, there's no sudden shock murderous twists. It's essentially 31 00:01:36,333 --> 00:01:39,093 Speaker 3: a buddy comedy, which sounds weird for the grim dark 32 00:01:39,173 --> 00:01:41,573 Speaker 3: fantasy world of West Ross, but I think it works 33 00:01:41,573 --> 00:01:44,533 Speaker 3: surprisingly well. Duncan Egg's relationships is similar to that of 34 00:01:44,573 --> 00:01:47,093 Speaker 3: the young Aria Stark and the gruff Mercenary the Hound 35 00:01:47,133 --> 00:01:49,973 Speaker 3: in the original Game of Thrones series, so if you 36 00:01:50,133 --> 00:01:53,293 Speaker 3: enjoyed that pairing in the show, you'll find a lot 37 00:01:53,333 --> 00:01:55,853 Speaker 3: to like hear After Game of Thrones and its follow 38 00:01:55,893 --> 00:01:57,733 Speaker 3: up House of the Dragons, I found the Low Stakes 39 00:01:57,733 --> 00:01:59,933 Speaker 3: to be refreshing. It's a really fun story, which is 40 00:01:59,973 --> 00:02:02,933 Speaker 3: not something you could always say about those shows. And 41 00:02:03,013 --> 00:02:05,413 Speaker 3: I also thought it was really nice to be focused 42 00:02:05,973 --> 00:02:08,293 Speaker 3: on a can simply living in the world as opposed 43 00:02:08,333 --> 00:02:10,733 Speaker 3: to someone who's trying to shape the world, if you 44 00:02:10,773 --> 00:02:11,293 Speaker 3: know what I mean. 45 00:02:11,413 --> 00:02:13,653 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that sound is great. Okay, So that's really good. 46 00:02:13,653 --> 00:02:17,573 Speaker 2: Interesting that sometimes just maybe pairing things back a little 47 00:02:17,573 --> 00:02:19,453 Speaker 2: bit can actually really benefit of production. 48 00:02:20,133 --> 00:02:22,453 Speaker 3: So I think so. And what I also really liked 49 00:02:22,453 --> 00:02:24,973 Speaker 3: about it is it's still got that Game of Thrones 50 00:02:25,053 --> 00:02:28,053 Speaker 3: rittness richness to it, Like the world is so thoroughly conceived, 51 00:02:28,093 --> 00:02:30,333 Speaker 3: and you can see how much money has been spent. 52 00:02:30,573 --> 00:02:33,893 Speaker 3: Because it's a small show, the production is still large 53 00:02:33,933 --> 00:02:38,053 Speaker 3: and obviously expensive, like it looks the gajillion dollars it's. Yeah, 54 00:02:38,253 --> 00:02:40,173 Speaker 3: and it still has some of those trademarks, like there's 55 00:02:40,173 --> 00:02:43,333 Speaker 3: a lot of violence, there's nudity. There's a gross out 56 00:02:43,373 --> 00:02:47,333 Speaker 3: comedy opening scene which hilariously undercuts the seriousness, which you know, 57 00:02:47,493 --> 00:02:49,253 Speaker 3: you think of Game of Thrones, you think very serious, 58 00:02:49,693 --> 00:02:51,933 Speaker 3: completely undercut. Maybe don't be eating your dinner when you 59 00:02:51,973 --> 00:02:54,493 Speaker 3: watch the opening five minutes of the show, as my advice, 60 00:02:54,853 --> 00:02:56,573 Speaker 3: but yeah, it's a it's a slam dunk. 61 00:02:56,693 --> 00:02:59,373 Speaker 2: Oh fantastic, Okay, cool. So that's a Night of the 62 00:02:59,373 --> 00:03:05,973 Speaker 2: Saving Kingdoms. That's streaming on Neon on Prime Video Steal Yeah, leaving. 63 00:03:05,773 --> 00:03:08,053 Speaker 3: Game of Thrones but behind but not one of its stars. 64 00:03:08,453 --> 00:03:11,213 Speaker 3: The lead of Steelers Sophie Turner, who played Sanza Stark 65 00:03:11,253 --> 00:03:14,973 Speaker 3: in the original hit series. In this modern day heist thriller, 66 00:03:15,053 --> 00:03:17,933 Speaker 3: she plays Zara Dunn, a mid level office worker at 67 00:03:17,893 --> 00:03:21,693 Speaker 3: a financial institution that manages many of England's pension funds. 68 00:03:22,093 --> 00:03:23,933 Speaker 3: The show starts with her hungover at work, which is 69 00:03:23,973 --> 00:03:26,293 Speaker 3: something I'm sure you would never be guilty of, Jack 70 00:03:26,733 --> 00:03:30,333 Speaker 3: before her Before her day gets astoundingly worse when a 71 00:03:30,333 --> 00:03:33,973 Speaker 3: group of highly trained and menacingly violent baddie storm the office, 72 00:03:34,213 --> 00:03:36,493 Speaker 3: waving machine guns around and pistol whipping people for looking 73 00:03:36,493 --> 00:03:39,453 Speaker 3: at them funny. While her coworkers are all march gunpoint 74 00:03:39,453 --> 00:03:42,493 Speaker 3: into a conference room, Zara and her colleague are forced 75 00:03:42,533 --> 00:03:45,413 Speaker 3: to transfer four billion pounds out of the pension funds 76 00:03:45,813 --> 00:03:49,453 Speaker 3: and into account given to them by the robbers. That 77 00:03:49,573 --> 00:03:52,853 Speaker 3: opening episode is fast paced and just operating on adrenaline, 78 00:03:52,893 --> 00:03:56,013 Speaker 3: and it completely sucked me in. Like all good height stories, 79 00:03:56,173 --> 00:03:59,653 Speaker 3: there's twists, there's turns, Problems pile up for Zara to 80 00:03:59,693 --> 00:04:03,293 Speaker 3: contend with while trying to stay alive. The scope sort 81 00:04:03,293 --> 00:04:07,093 Speaker 3: of expands out, showing flashing back to the events leading 82 00:04:07,173 --> 00:04:10,253 Speaker 3: up to the heist, and then seeing that conspiracy sort 83 00:04:10,293 --> 00:04:13,453 Speaker 3: of spiral out to include the gang of thieves themselves, 84 00:04:13,533 --> 00:04:15,933 Speaker 3: the police, some savory dick click, there's an even mi 85 00:04:15,973 --> 00:04:18,013 Speaker 3: I five who have their own reasons to be nosing 86 00:04:18,013 --> 00:04:22,213 Speaker 3: around the investigation. After that explosive opening episode, the slicking, 87 00:04:22,333 --> 00:04:26,333 Speaker 3: glossy thriller is like thoroughly addictive viewing. I do think 88 00:04:26,373 --> 00:04:28,333 Speaker 3: it's as it goes on, does start to add one 89 00:04:28,413 --> 00:04:31,933 Speaker 3: layer too many, but I'm still heavily invested in giving 90 00:04:31,973 --> 00:04:33,613 Speaker 3: to the end of this thing. It's only six episodes, 91 00:04:33,733 --> 00:04:35,213 Speaker 3: and you know, I think there's going to be a 92 00:04:35,253 --> 00:04:36,733 Speaker 3: big payoff at the end, which I'm looking for. 93 00:04:36,853 --> 00:04:38,413 Speaker 2: Due great. Oh it sounds good. 94 00:04:38,453 --> 00:04:39,613 Speaker 3: Okay, So that's Steal. 95 00:04:39,813 --> 00:04:41,813 Speaker 2: That's on Prime Video, and A Night of the Seven 96 00:04:41,893 --> 00:04:44,213 Speaker 2: Kingdoms is on Neon. You can hear more from Carl, 97 00:04:44,293 --> 00:04:48,413 Speaker 2: of course on his substack screen crack, and those shows 98 00:04:48,413 --> 00:04:49,453 Speaker 2: will be up on the News Talks. 99 00:04:49,453 --> 00:04:53,093 Speaker 1: He'd b website for more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. 100 00:04:53,293 --> 00:04:56,493 Speaker 1: Listen live to news Talks he'd be from nine am Saturday, 101 00:04:56,733 --> 00:04:58,733 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.