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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 at b.

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Speaker 2: Twenty two past ten, which means it's screen time time

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Speaker 2: on your Saturday morning. Tara Ward is our screen time expert.

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Speaker 2: Every week, she makes three picks for TV shows to

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Speaker 2: watch and stream at home over the weekend.

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Speaker 3: Hey Tara, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's begin with a show streaming on Apple TV

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Speaker 2: plus tell us about your Friends and Neighbors.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you've finished White Lotus and you're missing a show

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Speaker 3: that's sort of poking fun at the rich and terrible

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Speaker 3: people of the world. Your Friends and Neighbors is worth

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Speaker 3: a watch. This is a new drama. It stars John

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Speaker 3: Hamm who plays a successful businessman who is one day

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Speaker 3: out of the blue fired from his job, and all

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Speaker 3: of a sudden, he goes from having everything whye family,

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Speaker 3: beautiful house to having very little, and so he comes

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Speaker 3: up with this idea to steal from his rich friends

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Speaker 3: and neighbors. And his idea is that they have so

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Speaker 3: much stuff they won't notice the things that go missing,

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Speaker 3: and because he's so similar to his friends neighbors, he'll

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Speaker 3: be the last person that they suspect. And so he

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Speaker 3: starts off with you know, small things, watches and cash,

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Speaker 3: and then gets older and more ambitious and gets himself

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Speaker 3: into trouble and it's very hard to have sympathy for him.

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Speaker 3: Most people just get another job when they get fired,

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Speaker 3: you know. He still has a lot of stuff, but

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Speaker 3: a bit like The White Lotus, the characters and the

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Speaker 3: show behave badly and their own worst enemy. But John

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Speaker 3: Hammer is great in this. He's very suave even when

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Speaker 3: he's falling apart. And Amanda Pete plays his ex wife.

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Speaker 3: She's fantastic as well. The only thing with the show

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Speaker 3: is that there is a lot of setup. It's a

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Speaker 3: really slow start. I wanted something happen to happen sooner

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Speaker 3: than it did. But if you can stick with it

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Speaker 3: and you don't mind a slower pace, this is a

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Speaker 3: really smart drama that's going to turn into a darker

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Speaker 3: kind of thriller as it goes. Alove so it is.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say it is a drama because it

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Speaker 2: almost sounds like a yeah comedy, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it is a drama. I mean there's sort

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Speaker 3: of the funny moments in it, but yeah, definitely more

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Speaker 3: on the drama side.

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Speaker 2: Serious, Yeah, okay, cool, So that's your friends and neighbors,

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Speaker 2: starring the suave John Hamm. It's on Apple TV Plus

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Speaker 2: on Prime Video. Tell us about land Man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you want to show with more bite and

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Speaker 3: energy that also stars John ham then this is Landman

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Speaker 3: on Prime Video. And this came out at the end

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Speaker 3: of last year, so it's not brand new, but it

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Speaker 3: flew under the radar bit and a couple of people

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Speaker 3: have recommended it to me in the last few weeks,

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Speaker 3: and I can see why. It's such a great little drama.

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Speaker 3: It stars Billy Bob Thornton and it's set in the

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Speaker 3: oil fields of Texas, and Billy Bob Thornton plays a

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Speaker 3: landman called Tommy. He's the overseer of the oil drilling

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Speaker 3: operation in West Texas, so he's in charge of negotiations

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Speaker 3: and access and dealing with billiers and landowners. Everyone's trying

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Speaker 3: to get rich. Everyone is out for themselves and Tommy

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Speaker 3: is in the middle of it. And he's an alcoholic,

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Speaker 3: he's got a lot of debt and he's trying to

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Speaker 3: survive and quite a cutthroat industry. And when I was

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Speaker 3: watching this, before I knew anything about it, I thought,

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Speaker 3: this feels like Yellowstone, but in the desert. And that's

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Speaker 3: because it was created by Taylor Sheridan, who also made Yellowstone,

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Speaker 3: and so it's got that same sort of grittiness and

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Speaker 3: masculinity to it, you know, danger and politics and bureaucracy.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's not perfect. The female characters are pretty

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Speaker 3: one dimensional and it's it's very by the book. If

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Speaker 3: you watch a lot of Taylor Share and stuff shows

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Speaker 3: like Tulsa king and Mayor of Kingstown, it's still a

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Speaker 3: really entertaining show. Some great one line is in there.

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Speaker 3: John Hammers in this to me more is in this too,

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Speaker 3: and I think Billy Bob Thornton is in his element here.

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Speaker 3: He's having such a great time.

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Speaker 2: Very good. That's land Man. So that's on Prime Video.

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Speaker 2: And last, but not least, North of North is John

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Speaker 2: Hammond this as well.

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Speaker 3: No, strangely, well not yet North of North on Netflix.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a very wholesome, delightful new Canadian comedy

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Speaker 3: that's just come to Netflix. And I wanted to mention

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Speaker 3: this because there are two New Zealanders in the cast

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Speaker 3: of the show. Melee Potching and Jay Ryan are both

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Speaker 3: in this, which is very cool for such a global show.

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Speaker 3: On Netflix. But this is a comedy set in the aptic,

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Speaker 3: in a tiny town as far north as you can go.

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Speaker 3: It's surrounded by snow and ice even in summer. And

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Speaker 3: it's about young Enik woman. She's a wife and mother

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Speaker 3: who wants to break free and define her own life,

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Speaker 3: but it's finding that quite hard to do in a

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Speaker 3: community where everyone knows you and has certain expectations of

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Speaker 3: how you should behave And Bailey Potchin plays one of

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Speaker 3: her best friends. And Jay Ryan is an out of

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Speaker 3: towner who arrives one day and turns everything upside down.

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Speaker 3: And if you like warm, gentle comedies like Shit's Creek

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Speaker 3: or Superstore, this is in that same kind of vein.

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Speaker 3: It's charming, there's lots of quirky characters, and very unique

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Speaker 3: in that it's set in this Inuit community and one

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Speaker 3: of the most remote place on Earth, so you know,

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Speaker 3: it's fabulous. There's nothing else like this on TV at

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Speaker 3: the moment, which makes it worth a watch.

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Speaker 2: Very good. Okay, I'm looking forward to seeing that does

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Speaker 2: sound kind of interesting. So that's North of North. It's

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Speaker 2: on Netflix. Landman is on Prime Video, and Your Friends

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Speaker 2: and Neighbors is the one with John ham Stealing from

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Speaker 2: his Friends. That's on Apple TV, plus all of those

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Speaker 2: shows will be up on the News Talks He'd be website.

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