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 --> 00:00:12,973 Speaker 1: from News Talks AB Time. 3 00:00:13,013 --> 00:00:15,693 Speaker 2: To catch up with our screen time expert Tara Ward 4 00:00:15,773 --> 00:00:18,133 Speaker 2: is here with her three picks for shows to watch 5 00:00:18,173 --> 00:00:19,053 Speaker 2: your stream this weekend. 6 00:00:19,053 --> 00:00:21,253 Speaker 3: Hey Tara, Janna, good morning. 7 00:00:21,613 --> 00:00:25,293 Speaker 2: Let's begin with a show streaming on Netflix starring Jude 8 00:00:25,333 --> 00:00:28,013 Speaker 2: Law and Jason Bateman. Tell us about Black Rabbit. 9 00:00:28,973 --> 00:00:33,093 Speaker 3: Yeah, this is Netflix's latest big name prestige drama. It's 10 00:00:33,133 --> 00:00:35,293 Speaker 3: a crime thriller, as you say. It's stars Jude Law 11 00:00:35,293 --> 00:00:38,533 Speaker 3: and Jason Bateman, who play brothers living in New York. 12 00:00:39,133 --> 00:00:43,533 Speaker 3: Jud's Law, Jude Law's character Jake, is a successful businessman. 13 00:00:43,573 --> 00:00:46,213 Speaker 3: He owns a restaurant called Black Rabbit and it's kind 14 00:00:46,253 --> 00:00:49,493 Speaker 3: of this up and coming man about town. Jason Bateman 15 00:00:49,533 --> 00:00:52,453 Speaker 3: plays Vince, who is everything that Jake is not. Is 16 00:00:52,613 --> 00:00:55,693 Speaker 3: a criminal and he owes a lot of money to 17 00:00:55,893 --> 00:00:58,653 Speaker 3: some dangerous people. And after several months of not talking, 18 00:00:58,733 --> 00:01:01,253 Speaker 3: Vince turns up out of the blue, needs his brother's 19 00:01:01,293 --> 00:01:06,013 Speaker 3: help and Paul's Jake into the New York criminal underworld 20 00:01:06,053 --> 00:01:08,973 Speaker 3: to cover his debts and sort of risks everything that 21 00:01:09,453 --> 00:01:11,933 Speaker 3: Jake has built up. Last week, I talked about the 22 00:01:11,973 --> 00:01:15,213 Speaker 3: show Task which was pretty dark and gloomy, and this 23 00:01:15,293 --> 00:01:17,533 Speaker 3: is kind of similar. Most of it is filmed inside 24 00:01:18,413 --> 00:01:21,893 Speaker 3: at night, so it feels about claustrophobic and again has 25 00:01:21,973 --> 00:01:25,533 Speaker 3: quite a slow pace. It's very stylish. But I think 26 00:01:25,693 --> 00:01:27,813 Speaker 3: the thing here will be whether you like the brothers 27 00:01:27,973 --> 00:01:30,813 Speaker 3: enough to care about watching all eight episodes. The kind 28 00:01:30,853 --> 00:01:34,253 Speaker 3: of characters who are their own worst enemies, so I 29 00:01:34,253 --> 00:01:36,693 Speaker 3: think it will depend on how much you sympathize with them. 30 00:01:36,973 --> 00:01:40,613 Speaker 3: But yeah, very stylishly made some good tension here. It's 31 00:01:40,653 --> 00:01:42,533 Speaker 3: a bit reminiscent of the Beer, you know, set in 32 00:01:42,533 --> 00:01:45,053 Speaker 3: a restaurant with some family troubles, but with a bit 33 00:01:45,093 --> 00:01:47,253 Speaker 3: of dark crime thrown in for good nature. 34 00:01:47,333 --> 00:01:50,133 Speaker 2: Okay, all right, sounds interesting. I certainly love those two actors, 35 00:01:50,253 --> 00:01:54,133 Speaker 2: so do Laura and Jason Bateman in Black Rabbit. So 36 00:01:54,173 --> 00:01:59,293 Speaker 2: that's on Netflix on three now. Something completely different Taata Pie. 37 00:02:00,373 --> 00:02:02,933 Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a fantastic new local drama. It started 38 00:02:02,973 --> 00:02:05,693 Speaker 3: on three last Tuesday, but it's also streaming on three now. 39 00:02:06,573 --> 00:02:09,253 Speaker 3: Set in a more tunew Plymouth, and it follows five 40 00:02:09,333 --> 00:02:12,893 Speaker 3: different people in the hour before a bomb goes off 41 00:02:13,053 --> 00:02:16,893 Speaker 3: at a land occupation against a proposed mining scheme, and 42 00:02:16,933 --> 00:02:19,213 Speaker 3: there's a few reasons why this show is so good. 43 00:02:19,293 --> 00:02:21,493 Speaker 3: The first is that thirty percent of the dialogue is 44 00:02:21,493 --> 00:02:24,973 Speaker 3: into the Emori and it's woven seamlessly through the script. 45 00:02:25,493 --> 00:02:28,173 Speaker 3: The second is that it feels very current. The stories 46 00:02:28,173 --> 00:02:31,613 Speaker 3: are about politics and issues that everyone will recognize from 47 00:02:31,693 --> 00:02:34,893 Speaker 3: the real world, and every episode is one hour long, 48 00:02:34,973 --> 00:02:38,613 Speaker 3: so the drama unfolds in real time, and the storytelling 49 00:02:38,653 --> 00:02:41,173 Speaker 3: plays with perspectives so that you see the same events 50 00:02:41,173 --> 00:02:44,773 Speaker 3: from different points of view. And those five characters that 51 00:02:44,813 --> 00:02:47,453 Speaker 3: are caught up in that explosion are all very different. 52 00:02:47,453 --> 00:02:51,293 Speaker 3: There's a politician, there's a musician, there's a young dad, 53 00:02:51,333 --> 00:02:54,173 Speaker 3: there's a nurse and a police officer. So it's very 54 00:02:54,213 --> 00:02:58,413 Speaker 3: clever and layered and thoughtful. Brilliant New Zealand cast in 55 00:02:58,453 --> 00:03:03,173 Speaker 3: this as well, including Shevone Lukiy Nikolakawana Jaden Daniels. It's 56 00:03:03,173 --> 00:03:06,093 Speaker 3: written and director by Carle mc norton, who lives in Taranaki, 57 00:03:07,253 --> 00:03:09,053 Speaker 3: And what I really liked about it was that this 58 00:03:09,093 --> 00:03:11,373 Speaker 3: is a drama that feels very us. It's not trying 59 00:03:11,413 --> 00:03:15,133 Speaker 3: to replicate an overseas TV show. It feels very authentic. 60 00:03:15,493 --> 00:03:17,853 Speaker 3: It's about us and our history and our stories and 61 00:03:17,893 --> 00:03:20,013 Speaker 3: it's taking those issues that we've seen in the news, 62 00:03:20,333 --> 00:03:23,533 Speaker 3: but showing how they affect real people at the heart 63 00:03:23,773 --> 00:03:26,773 Speaker 3: of those issues. You really recommend this one. They've done 64 00:03:27,013 --> 00:03:28,013 Speaker 3: a beautiful job on it. 65 00:03:28,173 --> 00:03:32,013 Speaker 2: Nice okay and on TV and Z plus Boysone Life, 66 00:03:32,213 --> 00:03:33,533 Speaker 2: Death and boy Bands. 67 00:03:34,493 --> 00:03:37,213 Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a three part documentary series that I 68 00:03:37,253 --> 00:03:40,733 Speaker 3: hoovered down in one sitting last weekend. It is brilliant 69 00:03:40,733 --> 00:03:43,693 Speaker 3: and I know it's about Boyzone. Please don't think you 70 00:03:43,773 --> 00:03:46,773 Speaker 3: have to know anything about Boyzone or even like Boysoned 71 00:03:46,853 --> 00:03:53,893 Speaker 3: music to enjoy this documentary, because yeah, it's more of 72 00:03:53,933 --> 00:03:57,573 Speaker 3: a nostalgic, quite emotional look back on what it's like 73 00:03:57,653 --> 00:03:59,453 Speaker 3: to be in one of the biggest boy bands in 74 00:03:59,453 --> 00:04:02,293 Speaker 3: the world and what happens when it all goes wrong. 75 00:04:02,573 --> 00:04:05,133 Speaker 3: Boyzone was created in nineteen ninety three. They were going 76 00:04:05,133 --> 00:04:08,133 Speaker 3: to be Ireland's answer to to take that. They were 77 00:04:08,173 --> 00:04:11,373 Speaker 3: five working class boys from Dublin and you know, probably 78 00:04:11,413 --> 00:04:14,333 Speaker 3: the most famous as Ronan Keating, and they went on 79 00:04:14,373 --> 00:04:18,573 Speaker 3: to have huge global success. They started doing some very 80 00:04:18,613 --> 00:04:22,133 Speaker 3: cringey things, just dancing on TV to other people's music 81 00:04:22,493 --> 00:04:24,293 Speaker 3: and then went on to you know, playing a different 82 00:04:24,533 --> 00:04:28,573 Speaker 3: different country every night. And the documentary series talks to 83 00:04:28,613 --> 00:04:31,933 Speaker 3: the four surviving band members about how their lives changed 84 00:04:32,293 --> 00:04:35,133 Speaker 3: and what happened when the music stopped. And there's a 85 00:04:35,133 --> 00:04:37,453 Speaker 3: great villain in this too. Louis Walsh was their manager, 86 00:04:37,493 --> 00:04:40,893 Speaker 3: and he has no regrets today about the tabloid head 87 00:04:40,973 --> 00:04:43,893 Speaker 3: lines that he encouraged and fed, because you know, he 88 00:04:44,013 --> 00:04:46,733 Speaker 3: was doing his job. Any publicity was good publicity. So 89 00:04:46,893 --> 00:04:49,493 Speaker 3: it's a great watch. If you liked the Robbie Williams 90 00:04:49,493 --> 00:04:52,013 Speaker 3: documentary or the Beckham doc o, you know those shows 91 00:04:52,053 --> 00:04:54,533 Speaker 3: that look back on the nineties and the two thousands 92 00:04:54,533 --> 00:04:57,133 Speaker 3: with fresh eyes, you will definitely enjoy this as well. 93 00:04:57,053 --> 00:04:58,653 Speaker 2: All Right, it sounds like a bit of fun Boys, 94 00:04:58,653 --> 00:05:00,973 Speaker 2: Own Life, Death and boy Bands. That's on TV and 95 00:05:01,013 --> 00:05:04,693 Speaker 2: Z Plus, Tongua Tapi, the one with dadil Mauri filmed 96 00:05:04,773 --> 00:05:07,853 Speaker 2: in New Plymouth that is on three and Black Rabbit 97 00:05:08,333 --> 00:05:10,213 Speaker 2: is on Netflix. All of those shows will be on 98 00:05:10,253 --> 00:05:13,333 Speaker 2: the News Talk's He'd Be website. 99 00:05:12,333 --> 00:05:15,453 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen live 100 00:05:15,533 --> 00:05:18,333 Speaker 1: to News Talks He'd Be from nine am Saturday, or 101 00:05:18,413 --> 00:05:20,293 Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.