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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 atb.

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Speaker 2: It is screen time time. Time to catch up with

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Speaker 2: Tara Wards. She's does screen Time Expert. It is her

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Speaker 2: role every week to recommend three shows for watching or

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Speaker 2: streaming at home. Hey, Tara, good morning. I will begin

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Speaker 2: this morning with a show that's streaming on Neon starring

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Speaker 2: Mark Ruffalo. Tell us about Task.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Task is HBO's latest crime thriller. And you might remember

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Speaker 3: the show Mayor of Easttown that came out a few

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Speaker 3: years ago at starred Kate Winslet. Yep, she played a

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Speaker 3: detective in Pennsylvania and it was quite a slow, gritty

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Speaker 3: crime thriller. Well, this latest series Task is made by

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Speaker 3: the same creator of Mayor of Easttown, Brent and Glesby,

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Speaker 3: and it feels quite similar. It has that same kind

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Speaker 3: of slow pace, it's set in working class communities, and

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Speaker 3: it's got a similar kind of worn down mood to it.

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Speaker 3: But as you say, it stars Mark Ruffalo, who is

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Speaker 3: great in this. He plays an FBI agent who is

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Speaker 3: dealing with her family tragedy and he's also been assigned

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Speaker 3: to a case involving some violent home invasions in Philadelphia,

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Speaker 3: and those robberies are linked to local drug houses and

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Speaker 3: so he needs to find the criminals before it escalates

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Speaker 3: into a drug war, and so he pulls together a

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Speaker 3: task of Agents, task Force of Agents to help him investigate,

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Speaker 3: and what he thinks is going to be a simple

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Speaker 3: case turns into this violent game of cat and mouse.

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Speaker 3: And like Mayor of Eastown, this is about how crime

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Speaker 3: has a ripple effect in communities, and how the system

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Speaker 3: is rigged against some people, and how personal and professional

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Speaker 3: lives just always get tangled up. It's a great show,

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Speaker 3: but I think you have to be in the right

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Speaker 3: mood for this. It's slow, quite heavy, very atmosphere, but

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Speaker 3: you know it's HBO, so it's a quality series. It's

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Speaker 3: kind of beautifully bleak, and if you like Meyor of

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Speaker 3: Eastown you will definitely like this as well.

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Speaker 2: I love Meyor of Eastown, So that's a bit of

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Speaker 2: me by the Sounds of Things. So that's Task That

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Speaker 2: stars Mark Ruffalo. It's on Neon on Prime Video.

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Speaker 3: The Girlfriend, Yes, something very different. This is a new

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Speaker 3: psychological thriller starring Robin Wright and Olivia Cook, and it's

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Speaker 3: about how a mother's perfect life starts to fall apart

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Speaker 3: when her son brings his new girlfriend home. The mother, Laura,

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Speaker 3: lives in London. She's a wealthy gallery owner and she's

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Speaker 3: very close with her adult son Daniel, almost to the

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Speaker 3: point of having an unhealthy relationship. But everything changes when

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Speaker 3: Daniel meets this new girlfriend. Laura is immediately suspicious of

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Speaker 3: her and starts to dig into her past, uncovers several

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Speaker 3: lies and things begin to unravel, and it's a story

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Speaker 3: of manipulation and jealousy. And the question is is Laura

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Speaker 3: warranted and trying to protect her son or is she

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Speaker 3: just paranoid and obsessed with him? And when I started

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Speaker 3: watching this, you know, it throws a few cliches that

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Speaker 3: you straight away and I thought, oh, I've seen this

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Speaker 3: show lots of times before, But then it pulled me

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Speaker 3: in really quickly, and this is going to be my

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Speaker 3: weekend watch. I think most of that is to do

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Speaker 3: with rob and Wright, who is just fantastic in this.

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Speaker 3: She's directing this as well. But it's one of those

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Speaker 3: shows that you don't know who's telling the truth, you

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Speaker 3: don't know who to believe. Nothing is as it seems,

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Speaker 3: and it plays around with perspectives and storytelling, so you

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Speaker 3: see the same events from different viewpoints and that keeps

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Speaker 3: you guessing. You know, it's not perfect, but it's compelling

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Speaker 3: and it's entertaining, and it gets darker as it goes along. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Cool, Okay, that's the girlfriend. That's on Prime Video and

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Speaker 2: on TV and Z one and TV and Z Plus

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Speaker 2: from tomorrow night. New Zealand's Best Homes with Phil Spencer

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Speaker 2: as another series.

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Speaker 3: New season of the very popular tv Z show that

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Speaker 3: takes us inside some of New Zealand's most impressive homes.

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Speaker 3: And as the name suggests, this is presented by Phil Spencer,

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Speaker 3: who of course most famous here for his British property

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Speaker 3: shows like Location, Location, Location, and Love It or Listed.

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Speaker 3: And he's flown back to New Zealand to visit eighteen

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Speaker 3: more spectacular luxury million dollar properties built in the mountains

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Speaker 3: and beside the beach and places like Wantaka and Corimandel

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Speaker 3: and Bay of Islands and it's sort of a celebration

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Speaker 3: of the architecture and the artistry of these houses and

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Speaker 3: he meets the owners and the architects and learns more

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Speaker 3: about what they were trying to do and how those

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Speaker 3: houses fit in with the environment around them, and it's

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Speaker 3: a beautiful show to watch. Many of us will never

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Speaker 3: step foot inside houses like these, so it's answering that

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Speaker 3: endless curiosity that we have with these property TV shows

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Speaker 3: about seeing how other people live. It's pretty spectacular houses

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Speaker 3: and this it's one of my favorites.

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Speaker 2: Okay, cool, So that's back tomorrow night on TV and

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Speaker 2: Z one and streaming on TV and Z Plus thereafter.

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Speaker 2: Of course, thanks Tara. Those shows once again. New Zealand's

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Speaker 2: Best Homes with Phil Spencer The Girlfriend is on Prime

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Speaker 2: Video and Task is the one with Mark Ruffalo that

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Speaker 2: is streaming on Neon.

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