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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalg z AB.

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Speaker 2: Twenty five past ten on News Talks AB, which means

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Speaker 2: it's screen time time. Tara awards here with her three

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Speaker 2: picks for watching or streaming stuff at home.

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Speaker 3: Hey Tara, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Let's begin with a show on Netflix starring Robin Malcolm.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about the survivors.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you see Robin Malcolm's name in a show,

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Speaker 3: you know it's going to be a great watch. And

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Speaker 3: this new murder mystery definitely is. It's based on a

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Speaker 3: book by Jane Harper and it's set in Tasmania, in

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Speaker 3: a small beachside town called Evelyn Bay, where fifteen years earlier,

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Speaker 3: a huge storm killed three people. Robin Malcolm plays one

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Speaker 3: of them. Plays the mother of one of the boys

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Speaker 3: who died, and the drama begins when her other son

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Speaker 3: returns home for a visit with his partner and their

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Speaker 3: new baby. A lot of locals still blame him for

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Speaker 3: the deaths during the storm, and there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: bad feeling, including from his own family. He meets a

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Speaker 3: woman who's come to town to investigate a disappearance that

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Speaker 3: happened at the same time as the storm and then

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Speaker 3: there's another murder, and so all of this starts to

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Speaker 3: dredge up a lot of grief and secrets and starts

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Speaker 3: to tear the community apart. And in a lot of ways,

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Speaker 3: The Survivors reminded me of the New Zealand series Friends

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Speaker 3: Like Her in that it's set in the small community

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Speaker 3: where everyone grew up together, everyone is connected. You've got

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Speaker 3: this isolated, beautiful setting, and there's lots of secrets under

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Speaker 3: the surface, and it's about grief and family and it's

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Speaker 3: about the legacy of trauma on people. It is set

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Speaker 3: up like a classic murder mystery, but there's a fantastic

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Speaker 3: cast here who take it well above that. And Robin

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Speaker 3: Malcolm plays this angry grieving mother so beautifully. She steals

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Speaker 3: every scene. So a fantastic series and a great binge

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Speaker 3: watch for the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, that's The Survivors. That's on Netflix. Also on Netflix,

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Speaker 2: tell Us about Sarah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is another murder mystery, but quite different in

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Speaker 3: tone and style. This is an Italian series Newton Netflix,

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Speaker 3: and it's very gritty and dark and atmospheric kind of

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Speaker 3: Thriller's in Naples, and it's about a former secret service

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Speaker 3: agent whose adult son is killed in the opening moments

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Speaker 3: of the show. They've been estranged for several years, so

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Speaker 3: they didn't have a relationship. She doesn't know her son,

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Speaker 3: but she's determined to find out why he died and

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Speaker 3: prove that it wasn't an accident, and so she becomes

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Speaker 3: a spy again to solve the mystery of his death,

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Speaker 3: which means she has to confront all the ghosts from

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Speaker 3: her own past about why she stopped working, while also

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Speaker 3: uncovering the truth about her son's life and discovering about

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Speaker 3: who he really was. And I think this is one

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Speaker 3: for fans of really moody murder mysteries. This is slow

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Speaker 3: paced and thoughtful. It's not your big, explosive kind of thriller.

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Speaker 3: But I think the grittiness of it, and the Italian

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Speaker 3: setting and this unconventional kind of hero who thankfully has

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Speaker 3: not lost her ability to read lips from a distance

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Speaker 3: and do all the cool spy things, I think all

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Speaker 3: of that makes this worth checking out.

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Speaker 2: Nice. Okay, that's Sarah. That's on Netflix and on Apple TV.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about stick.

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Speaker 3: This is a new sports comedy series, and if you

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Speaker 3: are a golf fan, someone who has finally made a

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Speaker 3: TV show for you. This is pretty much Ted Lasso

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Speaker 3: for golf. It stars Owen Wilson. He plays a former

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Speaker 3: golf champion called Price who is long past his prime.

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Speaker 3: He's a bit washed up, he's getting chucked out of

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Speaker 3: his house, he's having a midlife crisis. And he meets

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Speaker 3: this young prodigy at the golfing range who has amazing

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Speaker 3: talent but just doesn't care about the sport. And so

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Speaker 3: Price agrees to coach him. And this becomes his shot

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Speaker 3: at redemption, ats sorting his own life out, and at

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Speaker 3: gaining the respect of the golfing world again by helping

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Speaker 3: this teenage player qualify for the US Amateur Championships. And

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Speaker 3: I think Apple TV is trying to emulate that Ted

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Speaker 3: Lasso success here. It's got that same kind of warm,

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Speaker 3: gentle comedy, that same kind of charm. It's not particularly deep,

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Speaker 3: you know, it's a bit cliched, but you can kind

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Speaker 3: of forgive that. Very easy to watch, one of those

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Speaker 3: shows you can chuck on on a Sunday afternoon and

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Speaker 3: just relax into fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's stick. That's on Apple TV. Sarah and the

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Speaker 2: Survivors are both on Netflix, and all of those shows

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Speaker 2: will be at NEWSTALKSHEDB dot co dot nz. Ray has

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Speaker 2: just flicked me a note to say, Jack, that chocolate

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Speaker 2: biscuit recipe you share before ten o'clock sounds amazing. Where

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Speaker 2: can I get it the same place? Ray, Go to

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Speaker 2: the News Talks EDB website and you'll be able to

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Speaker 2: find it there.

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