1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to this Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,693 Speaker 1: from newstalk ZEDB. 3 00:00:13,053 --> 00:00:15,453 Speaker 2: Jack Love your interview with Marion Morris. She's an absolute 4 00:00:15,493 --> 00:00:17,653 Speaker 2: favorite for me. Can't wait for a New Zealand shows 5 00:00:17,693 --> 00:00:19,493 Speaker 2: next year. I Thank you. Ninety two. Ninety two is 6 00:00:19,533 --> 00:00:21,293 Speaker 2: our text number if you want to send us a message. 7 00:00:21,293 --> 00:00:24,973 Speaker 2: This morning, it is screen time time on newstalks 'b. 8 00:00:25,053 --> 00:00:27,133 Speaker 2: Tara Award joins us at this time every week with 9 00:00:27,213 --> 00:00:31,013 Speaker 2: her three picks for shows to watch or stream at home. 10 00:00:31,093 --> 00:00:34,173 Speaker 2: Hey Tara, good morning. Let's begin this morning with the 11 00:00:34,173 --> 00:00:37,693 Speaker 2: show streaming on Netflix. From the creator of the series Girls, 12 00:00:37,893 --> 00:00:39,373 Speaker 2: tell Us About too Much. 13 00:00:40,613 --> 00:00:43,413 Speaker 3: This is a new romantic comedy series and as you say, 14 00:00:43,693 --> 00:00:46,653 Speaker 3: created and directed by Lenna Dunham, who is best known 15 00:00:46,733 --> 00:00:50,053 Speaker 3: for her HBO series Girls, which was a series about 16 00:00:50,053 --> 00:00:51,813 Speaker 3: four women living in New York and it was a 17 00:00:51,933 --> 00:00:56,533 Speaker 3: very sharp, funny, brutal look female friendship. And now Lena 18 00:00:56,573 --> 00:00:59,013 Speaker 3: Dunham has taken that kind of sensibility to the rom 19 00:00:59,053 --> 00:01:02,293 Speaker 3: com This is about Jess, who is in her thirties. 20 00:01:02,413 --> 00:01:04,693 Speaker 3: She's living in New York and she takes a new 21 00:01:04,773 --> 00:01:07,773 Speaker 3: job in London to escape it breakup and she just 22 00:01:07,933 --> 00:01:10,493 Speaker 3: loves English rom coms, and so when she moves to 23 00:01:10,573 --> 00:01:14,573 Speaker 3: the UK, she expects her new life to be something 24 00:01:14,653 --> 00:01:17,253 Speaker 3: right out of notting Hill or love. Actually, she meets 25 00:01:17,253 --> 00:01:19,333 Speaker 3: a musician, they fall in love, and they have to 26 00:01:19,373 --> 00:01:23,333 Speaker 3: work through a lot of cultural clashes and expectations. And 27 00:01:23,373 --> 00:01:25,733 Speaker 3: the interesting thing about Hoo Much is that it's based 28 00:01:25,773 --> 00:01:28,573 Speaker 3: on Lena Dunham's own real life experience of moving to 29 00:01:28,613 --> 00:01:30,973 Speaker 3: the UK and falling in love with a musician who 30 00:01:31,013 --> 00:01:33,493 Speaker 3: she went on to marry. So there's quite a lot 31 00:01:33,493 --> 00:01:37,173 Speaker 3: of her own story woven through this, and it also 32 00:01:37,213 --> 00:01:40,773 Speaker 3: has this amazing cast Richard E. Grant, Jennifer Saunders, Naomi Watts, 33 00:01:40,893 --> 00:01:44,133 Speaker 3: Rita Wilson, Andrew Scott. She's pulled in some real superstar 34 00:01:44,213 --> 00:01:46,853 Speaker 3: power here. But don't go into this thinking it is 35 00:01:46,893 --> 00:01:49,013 Speaker 3: a Richard Curtis film. This is funny and there are 36 00:01:49,013 --> 00:01:52,133 Speaker 3: moments of sweetness, but it's also quite blunt at times, 37 00:01:52,253 --> 00:01:55,173 Speaker 3: and there's always a bit of an underlying bleakness to 38 00:01:55,253 --> 00:01:57,653 Speaker 3: Lena Dunnan's work, and the characters can be hard to 39 00:01:57,773 --> 00:02:00,453 Speaker 3: like sometimes and you can feel that here. But if 40 00:02:00,453 --> 00:02:02,173 Speaker 3: you want a rom com with a bit of a 41 00:02:02,213 --> 00:02:03,693 Speaker 3: bite to it, this is definitely worth. 42 00:02:03,533 --> 00:02:06,133 Speaker 2: A look's okay, cool, that's too much. That's on Netflix, 43 00:02:06,453 --> 00:02:08,693 Speaker 2: on Disney plus Jaws at fifty. 44 00:02:09,653 --> 00:02:12,493 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fifty years since the movie Jaws was released, 45 00:02:12,493 --> 00:02:16,533 Speaker 3: and this is a really fascinating documentary about how Steven 46 00:02:16,573 --> 00:02:20,253 Speaker 3: Spielberg made this movie and how Jaws changed movies forever. 47 00:02:20,333 --> 00:02:24,733 Speaker 3: This was the first ever big budget American summer blockbuster. 48 00:02:25,453 --> 00:02:29,613 Speaker 3: It encouraged a real visceral experience for the audience, and 49 00:02:29,653 --> 00:02:32,333 Speaker 3: so the documentary talks to a lot of people who 50 00:02:32,333 --> 00:02:34,973 Speaker 3: were involved in the film, the actors and as well 51 00:02:34,973 --> 00:02:37,693 Speaker 3: as director Steven Spielberg, who looks back on what was 52 00:02:37,733 --> 00:02:40,733 Speaker 3: a really difficult film to make. It went millions of 53 00:02:40,733 --> 00:02:43,053 Speaker 3: a budget, it took longer to film than it was 54 00:02:43,093 --> 00:02:46,253 Speaker 3: supposed to. The boats sank while they were filming. The 55 00:02:46,293 --> 00:02:49,413 Speaker 3: shark didn't work eighty percent of the time. He thought 56 00:02:49,493 --> 00:02:51,493 Speaker 3: this was going to be the last movie he ever made. 57 00:02:51,533 --> 00:02:54,453 Speaker 3: It was considered to be a disaster until it became 58 00:02:54,493 --> 00:02:57,893 Speaker 3: a hit. And so it's amazing to look back from 59 00:02:58,013 --> 00:03:00,813 Speaker 3: where we are today, where we rely on CGI and 60 00:03:00,853 --> 00:03:03,653 Speaker 3: special effects, to see how they made this film and 61 00:03:03,693 --> 00:03:08,293 Speaker 3: how powerful the simplicity of it actually is. I don't 62 00:03:08,293 --> 00:03:10,053 Speaker 3: think I've ever seen all of Jaws. I think I 63 00:03:10,133 --> 00:03:12,413 Speaker 3: chickened out pretty early on, but I still really enjoyed this. 64 00:03:12,533 --> 00:03:15,413 Speaker 3: It's quite a niche, but it's a snapshot of time 65 00:03:15,613 --> 00:03:17,933 Speaker 3: about what was going on in American culture in the 66 00:03:18,053 --> 00:03:21,573 Speaker 3: nineteen seventies and the impact that the film had, particularly 67 00:03:21,573 --> 00:03:24,053 Speaker 3: on shark numbers. You know that shark hunting became a 68 00:03:24,133 --> 00:03:27,413 Speaker 3: huge thing after Jaws, and it was the first big 69 00:03:27,453 --> 00:03:30,333 Speaker 3: blockbuster movie that sort of changed everything for film. So, 70 00:03:30,653 --> 00:03:32,173 Speaker 3: you know, really interesting documentary. 71 00:03:32,293 --> 00:03:34,653 Speaker 2: Yeah, nice, Okay, looking forward to seeing that. It's Jaws 72 00:03:34,653 --> 00:03:37,933 Speaker 2: at fifty the Definitive Inside Stories on Disney Plus and 73 00:03:37,973 --> 00:03:41,533 Speaker 2: on TVNZ Plus and YouTube. Speaking of anniversaries, it is 74 00:03:41,573 --> 00:03:44,933 Speaker 2: twenty years since Outrageous Fortune hit our screens. 75 00:03:45,813 --> 00:03:49,813 Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty years today. This was Outrageous Fortune, the New 76 00:03:49,933 --> 00:03:53,133 Speaker 3: Zealand series that starred Robin Malcolm as the matriarch of 77 00:03:53,173 --> 00:03:56,253 Speaker 3: the West family, who were a career a family of 78 00:03:56,293 --> 00:03:59,093 Speaker 3: career criminals living in west Auckland who decided to go 79 00:03:59,173 --> 00:04:01,493 Speaker 3: straight and try and live an honest life. And it 80 00:04:01,533 --> 00:04:03,253 Speaker 3: was a lot harder than they thought it would be. 81 00:04:03,813 --> 00:04:06,573 Speaker 3: And Outrageous Fortune captured our hearts in a way that 82 00:04:06,653 --> 00:04:09,373 Speaker 3: no other New Zealand show had done before. We hadn't 83 00:04:09,413 --> 00:04:12,573 Speaker 3: made anything like it. It was deliberately in your face. 84 00:04:12,613 --> 00:04:15,013 Speaker 3: There was lots of sex and swearing and bad behavior, 85 00:04:15,453 --> 00:04:18,293 Speaker 3: but it also had these characters that we recognized and 86 00:04:18,373 --> 00:04:20,253 Speaker 3: fell in love with, and it was funny to It 87 00:04:20,293 --> 00:04:22,813 Speaker 3: made us laugh at ourselves in a way that we 88 00:04:22,853 --> 00:04:26,053 Speaker 3: hadn't before. And so I've been rewatching it again twenty 89 00:04:26,093 --> 00:04:28,093 Speaker 3: years on and it still holds up. I mean, there 90 00:04:28,093 --> 00:04:30,173 Speaker 3: are moments where you think, well, you know, I don't 91 00:04:30,173 --> 00:04:31,893 Speaker 3: know if that would pass today, or that might not 92 00:04:31,933 --> 00:04:34,853 Speaker 3: work in twenty twenty five. But at the core of it, 93 00:04:34,853 --> 00:04:37,213 Speaker 3: it's the story about a New Zealand family who are 94 00:04:37,213 --> 00:04:40,093 Speaker 3: trying to be good, trying to get ahead, and that 95 00:04:40,173 --> 00:04:43,573 Speaker 3: still resonates twenty years on. So all six seasons are 96 00:04:43,573 --> 00:04:46,373 Speaker 3: on TVZ plus. If you have friends and family outside 97 00:04:46,373 --> 00:04:49,493 Speaker 3: of New Zealand who want to watch SPP. South Pacific 98 00:04:49,573 --> 00:04:52,893 Speaker 3: Pictures have put all six seasons up on YouTube, so 99 00:04:53,333 --> 00:04:55,493 Speaker 3: every episode is up there. You can watch it wherever 100 00:04:55,493 --> 00:04:57,933 Speaker 3: you are in the world and just enjoy a bit 101 00:04:57,933 --> 00:04:59,613 Speaker 3: of classic New Zealand alibision. 102 00:04:59,693 --> 00:05:02,413 Speaker 2: Yeah, such a good recommendation, Thank you, Tara. So those shows, 103 00:05:02,453 --> 00:05:05,013 Speaker 2: once again, too Much is the one by Lena Dunham. 104 00:05:05,053 --> 00:05:08,373 Speaker 2: That's on Netflix or A Fifties on Disney Plus. Outrageous 105 00:05:08,413 --> 00:05:11,173 Speaker 2: Fortune is on TV and z Plus and YouTube for 106 00:05:11,173 --> 00:05:13,893 Speaker 2: anyone who's out of the country. All of those recommendations 107 00:05:13,933 --> 00:05:18,133 Speaker 2: will of course be on the Newstalk's EDB website. 108 00:05:17,093 --> 00:05:20,213 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. 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