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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.

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Speaker 2: AB Jack says, Peter absolutely love Allen Davis. Thank you

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Speaker 2: so much for the interview. Fantastic to hear that he's

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Speaker 2: coming to New Zealand. Yeah, I'm a big fan from

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Speaker 2: wayback as well. QI so good A Jonathan Creek, so good,

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Speaker 2: underrated show. I reckon Jonathan Creek ninety two. Ninety two

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Speaker 2: is our text number if you want to send us

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Speaker 2: a message this morning. Speaking of fantastic TV shows. Now

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Speaker 2: it's time for your screen time picks for this week.

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Speaker 2: Tara Reward is our screen time experts. She's got three

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Speaker 2: recommendations for us.

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Speaker 3: Good a, Tara, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Let's begin this morning with The Abandons on Netflix.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. This is a new American Western series that just

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Speaker 3: began on Netflix. It stars Gillian Anderson and Lena Heady

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Speaker 3: and it's made by Kurt Sutter, who created shows like

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Speaker 3: Sons of Anarchy and The Shield, and those are both

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Speaker 3: quite dark and gritty shows, and has bought that kind

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Speaker 3: of sensibility to this new Western series. This is in

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Speaker 3: Washington in the eighteen fifties, and it's about two women

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Speaker 3: who are each the matriarch of their family and their

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Speaker 3: battle over some land that Gillian Anderson's character wants to

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Speaker 3: mine for silver. And it's about how far each woman

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Speaker 3: will go to get what they want and what they'll

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Speaker 3: do to protect their family, and it's about love and

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Speaker 3: revenge and greed and survival as well. A Western with

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Speaker 3: two women calling the shots is quite a modern take

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Speaker 3: on this era. But I think you're watching this for

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Speaker 3: a bit of escapism and a show that you won't

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Speaker 3: have to think too hard about, because this sort of

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Speaker 3: embraces all the cliches you would expect in a Western,

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Speaker 3: the gun slinging and the cattle stealing and the tough

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Speaker 3: town in the middle of nowhere. It's a bit like

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Speaker 3: Sons of Anarchy mixed in with Yellowstone, Like I've got

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Speaker 3: horses instead of motorbikes, and you know, it is a

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Speaker 3: bit formulaic. There's a few soapy love stories in here

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Speaker 3: as well. But I would watch this just for Gillian Anderson,

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Speaker 3: who I always think is so good, so compelling, and

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Speaker 3: here she's playing this mean, ruthless matriarch who has not

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Speaker 3: going to back down easily, and she just holds this

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Speaker 3: whole show together.

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Speaker 2: Oh fantastic cool. Okay, that's the Abandons on Netflix, on

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Speaker 2: TV and Z Plus the tense British drama trigger Point.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a new season of trigger Point which starts

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Speaker 3: tomorrow on TVNZ Plus. And trigger Point is one of

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Speaker 3: those shows that you know, it's completely over the top

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Speaker 3: and this stuff would never happen in real life, but

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Speaker 3: it doesn't matter. This is fun and fast and reliably

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Speaker 3: great television. This is a British police drama. It's made

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Speaker 3: by JD mccurio, who of course created brilliant shows like

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Speaker 3: Line of Duty and Bodyguard. And it's about a bomb

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Speaker 3: disposal officer named Lana Washington who as a war veteran

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Speaker 3: and is now the go to expert for diffusing bombs

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Speaker 3: under extreme pressure and basically in every episode she uses

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Speaker 3: her unique set of skills to prevent terrorist attacks involving

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Speaker 3: explosives and hostages. She's protecting the city of London while

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Speaker 3: also trying to find out the identity of these terrorist

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Speaker 3: serial killers. That's great stuff. Lana is played by Vicky McClure,

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Speaker 3: who starre in Line of Duty. She knows how to

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Speaker 3: deliver in these twisty police dramas, you know, it's slick,

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Speaker 3: lots of cliffhangers intention and I think if you just

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Speaker 3: embrace the ridiculousness of it all and don't worry too

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Speaker 3: much about the odd plot hole or how far fetched

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Speaker 3: it might seem, then you can just really enjoy this

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Speaker 3: for what it is, which is just entertainment. So season

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Speaker 3: three drops tomorrow morning, but seasons one and two are

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Speaker 3: already up on TVNZ plus.

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Speaker 2: Now, okay cool, So that is trigger point. It's on

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Speaker 2: TVNZ Plus and on Netflix.

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Speaker 3: Fisc Yeah, Fisk is one of my favorite comedies and

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Speaker 3: the third season has just dropped on Netflix. This is

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Speaker 3: a really dry Australian comedy. It starts Kitty Flanagan, who

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Speaker 3: also co created and wrote the show, and she plays

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Speaker 3: Halen Tudor Fisk, who is a corporate lawyer who goes

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Speaker 3: through a very bad, humiliating divorce and loses everything and

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Speaker 3: has to move in with her elderly father and his boyfriend,

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Speaker 3: and she has to take a job in a small,

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Speaker 3: run down suburban law firm that deals with wills and

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Speaker 3: estates and Fisc is quite socially awkward. She never says

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Speaker 3: the right thing, she doesn't suffer fools, she's not really

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Speaker 3: a people person, and the humor here is in her

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Speaker 3: daily interactions with her colleagues and her clients and all

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Speaker 3: the local idiots. It's such a delightful show, very sharp

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Speaker 3: and witty, but also quite warm and gentle, and the

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Speaker 3: characters are quirky but very lovable. If you like other

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Speaker 3: comedies like Utopia or Colin from Accounts or even Frontline

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Speaker 3: going way Back, I think you'll love this as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so good. I really really enjoyed first So yeah,

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Speaker 2: total all that recommendation. Fisk is on Netflix. Tara, did

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Speaker 2: you ever watch Jonathan Creek back in the day.

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Speaker 3: I was just thinking in the intro Jonathan Creek is

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Speaker 3: such an underrated show. Ye, it was great, and of

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Speaker 3: course on QI as well, and Davis love him on QI.

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Speaker 3: He just plays that role of the dance. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's so great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's very good. No, thank you so much. We'll

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Speaker 2: make for Tara's recommendations for this week's screen Time picks

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Speaker 2: her up on the news Talks he'd b website. So

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Speaker 2: The Abandons is the one with Gillian Anderson that's on Netflix.

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Speaker 2: Fisk is the Australian comedy that's on Netflix as well.

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Speaker 2: Trigger point is the British drama with the bombs bomb

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Speaker 2: disposal expert that's on TV and Z Plus. Thanks for

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Speaker 2: your messages. Jake has put me a note, so Jack,

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Speaker 2: I can't get the Jonathan Creek theme music out of

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Speaker 2: my head. Now. I'm from the UK, so I watched

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Speaker 2: it all those years ago and you cannot forget the music.

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Speaker 2: It is so good a dance Macard obviously doing a

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Speaker 2: terrible job of that, but you know the one.

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