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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 twenty.

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Speaker 2: Three past ten on your Saturday morning, which means it's

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Speaker 2: screen time time on news Talk ZEDB. Screen time expert

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Speaker 2: Tara Ward is here with her picks for us this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Hey Tara, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Three new shows watching or streaming at home. So tell

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Speaker 2: us first of all about Paradise on Disney Plus.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. This is a fantastic new American drama that's just

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Speaker 3: dropped this week, and it feels like a mix between

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Speaker 3: The West Wing and The Truman Show. It's created by

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Speaker 3: Dan Fogelman, who made the very popular show This Is Us,

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Speaker 3: and it stars Sterling K. Brown and James Marsden and

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Speaker 3: Sterling K. Brown plays the head of the security service

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Speaker 3: for the American President and he arrives at work one

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Speaker 3: day to find the president did and has to work

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Speaker 3: out what has happened and who's responsible. And there's a

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Speaker 3: lot of flashbacks that flesh out the relationship with the

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Speaker 3: President and how they've worked together over the life last

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Speaker 3: few years. But the thing about the show is that

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Speaker 3: there's something happening in the background, very quietly that isn't

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Speaker 3: quite right. There's something strange about the world that this

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Speaker 3: story is set in, and there's a twist at the

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Speaker 3: end of episode one that I won't give away, but

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Speaker 3: it changes things completely and gives the show quite a

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Speaker 3: different tone and direction in a good way. It's a

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Speaker 3: really interesting idea and makes the show stand out from

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Speaker 3: other political thrillersh I like this a lot. It's taking

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Speaker 3: that well known format of the American political thriller and

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Speaker 3: playing with it and having a bit of fun with it,

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Speaker 3: but still giving us believable characters and tense drama. The

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Speaker 3: story does unfold quite slowly, but it's smart and slick.

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Speaker 3: There's a bit of mystery in there as well, and

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Speaker 3: it's just really entertaining storytelling too.

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Speaker 2: Superb Okay, that's Paradise. It's on Disney Plus on TV

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Speaker 2: and Z Plus a new series of Rogue Heroes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. This is a great BBC drama. It's a World

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Speaker 3: War two series set in the North African desert and

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Speaker 3: it's inspired by true events. It's the story of how

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Speaker 3: the ESAs was formed during World War II, and so

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Speaker 3: it follows three British soldiers who in nineteen forty one

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Speaker 3: are feeling pretty disillusioned with the progress of the war,

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Speaker 3: they come up with this idea that they could do

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Speaker 3: more damage on the ground than in the air. And

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Speaker 3: they formed this group of soldiers who parachute in behind

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Speaker 3: enemy lines and fight the enemy when they least expect it.

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Speaker 3: And they kind of made this up as they went along.

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Speaker 3: They lived by this ethos of no rules. They would

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Speaker 3: recruit other soldiers who were troublemakers and had no problems

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Speaker 3: doing things a little bit differently, and the show follows

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Speaker 3: these guys as they keep risking their lives to pull

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Speaker 3: off these unlikely feats in the war. So it's full

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Speaker 3: of adventure and danger and fights and explosions. There's some

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Speaker 3: really big energy here. It's got a modern soundtrack which

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Speaker 3: adds to that as well. But funny too. There's lots

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Speaker 3: of humor in this which keeps it light. The cast

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Speaker 3: is great at stuff, Dominic West and Alfie Allen. The

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Speaker 3: characters are all you know, likable rogues. They don't always

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Speaker 3: do the right thing, but you can't help like them. Again,

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Speaker 3: another really entertaining, well made show. And it's not trying

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Speaker 3: to stick completely to the facts. It's not trying to

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Speaker 3: give a history lesson, but it's just a lot of

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Speaker 3: fun to watch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, great, that sounds awesome. The new series of

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Speaker 2: Brogue Hero So that's on TVNZ Plus and on Netflix.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about The Recruit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, another new spy thriller. I feel like there's been

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Speaker 3: so many spy Fellers coming out lately, but this is

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Speaker 3: The Recruit on Netflix. It's the second season drop this week.

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Speaker 3: And this series is directed by Doug Lyman, who made

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Speaker 3: films like The Born Identity Mister and Missus Smith Edge

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Speaker 3: of Tomorrow, so you know he knows how to make

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Speaker 3: an action packed blockbuster and that's effectively what The Recruit

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Speaker 3: is in TV series form. This is about a young

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Speaker 3: CIA lawyer who, on the first week of the job,

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Speaker 3: gets caught up in an international case involving a former

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Speaker 3: spy who is threatening to leak important classified details unless

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Speaker 3: he can help her get out of jail. And look,

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to pretend this is the best TV

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Speaker 3: show ever made. This is another show that is just entertainment.

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Speaker 3: If you want an action thriller that is bingible and

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Speaker 3: has a bit of charm to it, this will do

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Speaker 3: the trick. You probably won't remember it for a long

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Speaker 3: time afterwards, but You'll have a great time watching it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Nice, Okay, it sounds good. So that's the Recruit that's

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Speaker 2: on Netflix, Rogue Heroes is on TVNZ Plus, and Paradise

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Speaker 2: is on Disney Plus. Thank you so much, Tara. We

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Speaker 2: will talk again this time next week.

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