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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at B.

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Speaker 2: It is screen Time time on News Talks heid B

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Speaker 2: Tar Awards. Here as she is this time every Saturday

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Speaker 2: with her screen Time picks for this week. Coultatara, Gotta Jack. Okay,

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Speaker 2: let's give me a new show streaming on Netflix. Tell

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Speaker 2: us about the Residents.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. This is a quirky new American drama that's been

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Speaker 3: produced by Shonda Rimes, who, of course is a powerhouse

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Speaker 3: in American television. She's made shows like Gray's Anatomy and

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Speaker 3: Scandal and Bridgeton and this time she's venturing into comedy

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Speaker 3: with this new murder mystery called The Residence, which is

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Speaker 3: inspired by a book about the behind the scenes, private

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Speaker 3: world of the White House. And it's about a murder

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Speaker 3: that takes place in the White House on the night

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Speaker 3: of a state dinner with the Australian Prime Minister. The

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Speaker 3: White House Chief Usher is discovered dead and it becomes

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Speaker 3: a who done it? And a building filled with lots

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Speaker 3: of different floors and rooms and hundreds of staff who

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Speaker 3: all have very different and unusual roles in the White House,

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Speaker 3: And it's taking us behind the facade and capturing all

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Speaker 3: the politics behind the politics. And Uzo Aduba plays Cordelia Kupp,

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Speaker 3: who is this wonderfully unorthodox detective who's in charge of

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Speaker 3: the investigation. She has some very quirky ways of narrowing

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Speaker 3: down the suspects. And the show feels a bit like

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Speaker 3: Knives Out. It's satirical, it's very stylish. It jumps back

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Speaker 3: and forward in time. It does take a bit of

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Speaker 3: time to find its feet, and it's at its best

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Speaker 3: when Cordelia cup is on the screen. But you know,

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Speaker 3: very light and entertaining and a very easy watch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nice, cool, Okay, that's The Residence is on Netflix,

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Speaker 2: on Disney Plus. Good American Family.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a new drama series. It stars Alan

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Speaker 3: Pompeo and Mark du Plas, and it's based on a

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Speaker 3: very strange real life story about an American family who

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Speaker 3: adopted a young girl in twenty ten who had a

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Speaker 3: rare form of Dwarlfism, and the family later claimed that

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Speaker 3: the child, Natalie Grace, was actually an adult who was

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Speaker 3: trying to scam them. And it's a story that's gone

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Speaker 3: through the tabloids and been through the courts and had

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Speaker 3: documentaries made about it already, but this drama tells the

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Speaker 3: story of the adoption and what happens afterwards a little

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Speaker 3: bit differently. The first four episodes tell it from the

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Speaker 3: parent's perspective, and then halfway through it switches and it

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Speaker 3: tells it again from the daughter's viewpoint. So it's trying

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Speaker 3: to challenge everything you think you know about the story

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Speaker 3: and make your question who is really telling the truth

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Speaker 3: here and who you can rely on. I mean, it's

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Speaker 3: quite a tragic case no matter which way you look

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Speaker 3: at it. I found this quite an uncomfortable watch. And

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Speaker 3: the show starts with this huge legal disclaimer, so you

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Speaker 3: know this isn't going to be straightforward. But the tone

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Speaker 3: of this is quite uneasy, like something is on edge

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Speaker 3: the whole way through, and that's quite deliberate, but it's

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Speaker 3: quite heavy handed. It's almost sort of verging into horror territory.

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Speaker 3: So not for everyone, perhaps, but probably a show for

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Speaker 3: people who like an unusual true crime drama or have

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Speaker 3: already been following this story and watched all the documentaries

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Speaker 3: and things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, sounds curious. It's always interesting though, when you

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Speaker 2: start a show and the big legal disklimber at the top.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot going on behind that.

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Speaker 2: Saying nothing was like that as well. I remember that

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Speaker 2: it was like yeah, yeah, yeah, note to self. Okay, last,

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Speaker 2: but not least on Neon, tell us about The Leftovers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. The Leftovers is an HBO series that first came

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Speaker 3: out in twenty fourteen, but all three seasons have just

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Speaker 3: landed on Neon. And if you're in the mood this

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Speaker 3: weekend to binge watch something that's gritty and dystopian and

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Speaker 3: a bit supernatural. This is definitely worth a look. It's

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Speaker 3: set three years after an unexplained event called the Sudden Departure,

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Speaker 3: where two percent of the population around the world have

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Speaker 3: mysteriously disappeared, and it's about a community of people in

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Speaker 3: New York who are trying to adjust to this new

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Speaker 3: reality and work out what actually happened. And you know,

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Speaker 3: lots of religious cults are forming, the power balances are

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Speaker 3: pretty pretty unstable, and society it's pretty fragile. So it's

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Speaker 3: quite dystopian and a bit grim, but it does have

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Speaker 3: this amazing all star cast. Justin Throw stars in this

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Speaker 3: as the local police chief. It's also got Carrie Kuhn,

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Speaker 3: Liv Tyler, Christopher Eckston, Margaret Qually, Regina King, just this

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Speaker 3: really impressive cast and it was created by Damon Lindeloff,

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Speaker 3: who was the showrunner of Lost, and it has that

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Speaker 3: similar surreal you know, it's a little bit confusing vibe

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Speaker 3: of loss. You're not quite sure where you are the

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Speaker 3: whole time. So if you like Lost, or you like

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Speaker 3: shows like The Last of Us or from I think

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Speaker 3: you're like this as well.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but have you watched it the whole way through? Like,

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Speaker 2: can you tell us that it's going to have a

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Speaker 2: slightly more satisfying finish than off?

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Speaker 3: I can't guarantee it, Okay, you know, yeah, I don't know. Answers, Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 3: that's the journey you'll go on.

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Speaker 2: Very good. Okay, Hey, thank you so much. Really appreciate

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Speaker 2: your time. As always, we'll put all of those screen

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Speaker 2: time picks from Tara up on the News Talks. He'd

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Speaker 2: b website those shows once again. The Residence is on Netflix.

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Speaker 2: Good American Family is the one with the legal disclaim

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Speaker 2: that streaming on Disney Plus and The Leftovers is on Neon.

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