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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: Twenty two past ten on news Talk ZEDB was Tara

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Speaker 2: Ward our screen time Experts recommendation that first turned me

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Speaker 2: on too Adolescents, and Tara's back with us this morning

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Speaker 2: is she is every Saturday with her picks for this week.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Tara. It was an amazing show.

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Speaker 2: It really really was, and it has just Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: just cannot stop thinking about it.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm the same. I watched it two weeks ago

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Speaker 3: and I'm still thinking about it every day and now

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Speaker 3: I'm reading everything i can about how they made it

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Speaker 3: and how they pulled off that single shot and how

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Speaker 3: they did that amazing drone shot and episode two. It's

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Speaker 3: just kind of got into my head and thinking about

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Speaker 3: it in so many different ways, and I think that's

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Speaker 3: the same for lots of other people who have watched it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's funny, how because you know, in a way,

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Speaker 2: it's kind of a it's a relatively simple concept, but

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Speaker 2: it's just kind of a simple concept exquisitely done and

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Speaker 2: it's perfectly done, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so rare to have a TV show like

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Speaker 3: Adolescent where every single part of it works. There's no

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Speaker 3: weak point in it. You know, the writing is perfect,

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Speaker 3: the acting is phenomenal, the story feels very realistic and relatable,

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Speaker 3: and it just all comes together in an incredible way.

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Speaker 2: Well, my thanks to you, because that turned out to

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Speaker 2: be a superb recommendation. And it's not just me who

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Speaker 2: says it. It's something like eighty five million people that

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Speaker 2: now streamed it on Netflix say it's absolutely destroyed the

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Speaker 2: records or all of the previous streaming records, which I

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Speaker 2: guess is no great, it's amazing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And there wasn't a lot of hype to it.

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Speaker 3: It just kind of dropped, And I think maybe that's

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Speaker 3: why we're all caught up on it too, because there

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Speaker 3: were no expectations. We just have watched it all together

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Speaker 3: and we're all talking about it together, which doesn't happen

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Speaker 3: quite as much as it used to a television shows.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's just, you know, people have sort

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Speaker 2: of let the show do the talking, and it's spread

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Speaker 2: by word of mouth and by recommendations on screen time

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Speaker 2: on Saturday mornings, on newsbooks. He'd be So we've got

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Speaker 2: three shows for this weekend. No pressure living up to

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Speaker 2: that pack. Let's start off with the new show streaming

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Speaker 2: one on starring Timothy Spall, tell us about the Sixth Commandment.

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Speaker 3: If you want another chilling drama to watch, this is

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Speaker 3: this week's recommendation. This is a BBC drama. It won

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Speaker 3: a BAFTA last year for Best Limited Drama and it

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Speaker 3: stars Timothy Spall, who won both a Bafter and an

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Speaker 3: International Emmy for this role. And it's another one of

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Speaker 3: those quality British productions that just sort of takes every box.

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Speaker 3: The writing is by Sarah Phelps, The acting is beautifully done,

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Speaker 3: and the story is really compelling. It's based on a

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Speaker 3: true story and it's about a retired school teacher who's

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Speaker 3: played by Timothy Spaull and his elderly neighbor who are

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Speaker 3: both quite lonely, vulnerable people. They become friends with a

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Speaker 3: young man named Ben and both fall in love with him,

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Speaker 3: and Ben, of course is not her. He seems. He

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Speaker 3: persuades both of them to update their wills and leave

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Speaker 3: everything to him, and then he tries to murder them.

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Speaker 3: And it's a true story, very shocking and The show

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Speaker 3: doesn't shy away from that, but it's it's very British

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Speaker 3: in the way that nothing here is over the top

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Speaker 3: or sensation wise. It all just unfolds in a very

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Speaker 3: understated way that makes it quite uncomfortable to watch at times.

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Speaker 3: But the tragedy of the story is quiet and uneasy

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Speaker 3: and quite haunting. And I think that's the power of it,

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Speaker 3: that this doesn't need any over the top embellishing. Timothy

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Speaker 3: Spall is so good in this. I mean, he's always good,

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Speaker 3: but he's incredible in this. He pulls you in right

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Speaker 3: from his start as this very lonely man of faith.

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Speaker 3: And you know, if you want something intense but very

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Speaker 3: carefully and thoughtfully made that you could just sort of

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Speaker 3: slowly work your way through four episodes, this is a

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Speaker 2: Great That's the sixth Commandment on Apple TV. Plus the Studio.

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Speaker 3: There's something very different. This is a new satire that

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Speaker 3: stars Seth Rogan and a long list of famous Hollywood

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Speaker 3: guest stars. It's a comedy that's poking fun at the

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Speaker 3: movie industry and Seth Rogan plays the head of a

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Speaker 3: movie studio and he wants to make these meaningful art

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Speaker 3: house films but he is employed purely to make the huge,

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Speaker 3: pointless billion dollar blockbusters, and so for his first film

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Speaker 3: in the job, he tries to do both, to make

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Speaker 3: a very beautiful, worthy film about the drink kool Aid,

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Speaker 3: is a juggle. There's egos to manage, there's deals to

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Speaker 3: be done, there's lies to be told, and Seth Rogan's

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Speaker 3: character is continually moving and shouting and trying to convince

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Speaker 3: everyone that he knows what he's doing. And so there's

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Speaker 3: a lot of clever industry in jokes in this show,

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Speaker 3: and it's very self aware and I think if you

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Speaker 3: watch a lot of movies, or if you're interested in

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Speaker 3: the inner workings of Hollywood and America, then you'll get

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Speaker 3: a lot more out of this. But the big pool

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Speaker 3: to the show is the cameos. Everyone from Catherine O'Hara

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Speaker 3: to Martin Scorsese to Charlie's theirn zach Efron pops up

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Speaker 3: on this. It's like, you know, spot the celebrity. So,

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Speaker 3: you know, a really clever show, very fast and punchy back,

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Speaker 3: quite silly and over the top as well, and just

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Speaker 3: quite refresh refreshing to see something that doesn't take itself

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Speaker 3: too seriously.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds nice, But my gosh, that's a hell

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Speaker 3: I know, every episode full of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So that's the studio that's on Apple TV

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Speaker 2: Plus and on three now the Last Anniversary.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. This is a new Australian drama based on the

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Speaker 3: book by Leanne Moriarty, who of course wrote Big Little

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Speaker 3: Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, and this is the latest

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Speaker 3: novel to be adapted for at TV. And it's about

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Speaker 3: a family who live on a remote island in Australia

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Speaker 3: near Sydney, and when the matriarch of the family dies,

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Speaker 3: she leaves her house to a stranger, effectively much to

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Speaker 3: the dismay of the rest of the family. And the

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Speaker 3: stranger's arrival on the island and what that represents kick

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Speaker 3: starts all of these long hidden, deep buried family secrets

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Speaker 3: coming to the surface. So it's a family saga, it's

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Speaker 3: a romance, it's about motherhood and relationships. There were lots

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Speaker 3: of characters introduced in the first episode, so I'm hoping

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Speaker 3: that it will set down and find its own pace

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Speaker 3: as it goes on, because it's a really easy to watch,

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Speaker 3: quite moody and atmospheric thriller, A little bit so be

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Speaker 3: but in a good way, but a great way, mistery thriller.

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Speaker 2: Very good. Okay, cool, that sounds great. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Tara will put all of those recommendations on the news

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Speaker 2: talks Thereb website. The show is once again. The Sixth

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Speaker 2: Commandment is on Neon. That's the one with Timothy Spall.

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Speaker 2: The studio is on Apple TV Plus, and the Last

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Speaker 2: Anniversary is on three. Now, Jack, what was the Netflix

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Speaker 2: show you were talking about? Jack, what's the wonderful show

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Speaker 2: you've just been recommending? I started I started the program

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Speaker 2: this morning by talking about Adolescents, which is this incredible

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Speaker 2: show on Netflix. Four episodes. Tara recommended it to us

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, and so I went and

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Speaker 2: watched it, and it's one of those shows that just

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Speaker 2: stays with you. It stays with you for so long afterwards,

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Speaker 2: you find yourself kind of turning over all of the

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Speaker 2: events and scenes in your head in the middle of

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Speaker 2: the night and yeah, I'm not the only one that's

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Speaker 2: broken all sorts of streaming records, and not because it's

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Speaker 2: a real whiz bang production. Not because it has you know,

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Speaker 2: like that, just because it's amazing storytelling, really affecting storytelling.

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Speaker 2: So if you haven't seen it yet, Adolescence on Netflix,

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Speaker 2: I will warn you it's kind of disturbing. It is upsetting.

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Speaker 2: It it's devastating. Really not not gruesome or you know,

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Speaker 2: but just really affecting. That's the word I keep coming

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Speaker 2: back to. So Adolescence on Netflix I will recommend for

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