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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 Me.

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Speaker 2: Right now, though, our screen time expert Tara Ward has

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Speaker 2: some fab new Tally shows for us to enjoy over

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Speaker 2: King's Birthday weekend.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Tara, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Okay. I have delved into Netflix's new show Department QE

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Speaker 2: basically because I love Matthew Good and also I love

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Speaker 2: listening to Scottish accents.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what did you think? Did you enjoy it? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I did. I think it takes a little while to

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Speaker 2: get into I mean, Matthew Good is definitely very committed

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Speaker 2: to the role. He looks as tortured as his character

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Speaker 2: should be, and he's not a particularly nice guy. But

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Speaker 2: as we proceed, I can see that you're going to

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Speaker 2: kind of warm to him. Would that be fair?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, absolutely. This is a new Scottish crime thriller.

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Speaker 3: It's made by the team behind The Queen's Gambit and

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Speaker 3: it is about a police detective called Carl Mark who's

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Speaker 3: played by Matthew Good. And Mark is recovering from a

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Speaker 3: traumatic incident on the job. He's not well liked, he's

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Speaker 3: difficult to work with, He's suffering a lot of guilt,

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Speaker 3: and when he comes back to work, he's sent to

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Speaker 3: the basement and given a new job, working completely on

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Speaker 3: his own as the head of Department Q, which is

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Speaker 3: a new cold case unit. And the new unit is

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Speaker 3: a publicity stunt basically to reassure the public that the

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Speaker 3: police are taking crime seriously. And so it's not expected

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Speaker 3: to succeed, but Mark builds this team of colleagues who

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Speaker 3: like him, do things differently, and they start investigating this

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Speaker 3: four year old cold case involving a young lawyer. So

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Speaker 3: there's two storylines running through here. But it did grab

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Speaker 3: me from the very first second. It's got energy, it's

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Speaker 3: dark and gritty. There's some brilliant sarcastic humor in this,

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Speaker 3: and as you say, it does take its time and

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Speaker 3: sort of carefully crafting that world of people and places

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Speaker 3: and moments that you get pulled into. So it's a

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Speaker 3: crime thriller, but I think it's going to kind of

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Speaker 3: turn into a very moody, gothic psychological thriller as well,

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Speaker 3: and perfect timing for the long wintery weekend at nine episodes,

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Speaker 3: and I think if you like Line of Duty, if

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Speaker 3: you like slow horses or Luther, I think you'll like

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Speaker 3: this one as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like the structure of it as well. I

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Speaker 2: don't want to give away too much about the plot,

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Speaker 2: but the way that those two storylines were kind of

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Speaker 2: working together. I didn't see Yeah one coming, so I

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Speaker 2: like that as well. Hey, The Better Sister is starting

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Speaker 2: on Prime Video. Awesome cast Jessica Bill and Elizabeth Banks.

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Speaker 2: And I've only watched the first episode of this, but

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Speaker 2: what I liked about it was I have no idea

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Speaker 2: whether this is going to go because all the characters

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Speaker 2: seem dodgy.

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Speaker 3: Tara, Yes, it's so true, and it's kind of tapping

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Speaker 3: into that white lotus thing that we're getting a lot

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Speaker 3: of it at the moment, where you know, it's glossy

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Speaker 3: and beautiful, and it's about the lives of wealthy people

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Speaker 3: who outwardly everything is perfect, but underneath it's all kind

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Speaker 3: of terrible and there's lots of secrets. But your Sisters

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Speaker 3: Jessica Bill and Elizabeth Banks, who play two estrange sisters

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Speaker 3: who are forced to reconcile after one of their husbands

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Speaker 3: is murdered. Chloe is a high powered media executive. She's

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Speaker 3: very successful and she's in the public eye and her

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Speaker 3: sister Nikki is a recovering at it, and when Chloe's

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Speaker 3: husband is killed one night, the two sisters have to

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Speaker 3: sort out their own issues in order to protect themselves

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Speaker 3: and their family from being framed from the crime. But

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Speaker 3: there's a bit of ambiguity in there in that first

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Speaker 3: episode about about whether what we're seeing is true, and

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Speaker 3: I think I found the key to this was suspending

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Speaker 3: belief a bit. The first episode I felt was a

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Speaker 3: little bit slow, again, taking its time to set things up.

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Speaker 3: And if you've watched a lot of crime dramas, there's

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Speaker 3: some distracting stuff going on here, people walking through the

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Speaker 3: crime scene and hiding evidence in unusual ways, but there

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Speaker 3: is some good stuff. How Jessica Bale and Elizabeth Banks

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Speaker 3: are both great in this. You know what I mean

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Speaker 3: when I say yeah and love it? Yeah, And I

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Speaker 3: think this is probably a show that you can put

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Speaker 3: on and admire the clothes and the nice houses and

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Speaker 3: the beach views and just sort of be slowly pulled

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Speaker 3: into it and not have to think too hard about it.

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Speaker 2: And you got a comedy for us.

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Speaker 3: Yes, this is Brassak. This is a British comedy. It's

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Speaker 3: not a new show. It's been around since twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 3: but five seasons of it have just landed on Netflix,

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Speaker 3: so I think this is going to give that show

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Speaker 3: a whole new audience in New Zealand. It's already in

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Speaker 3: the top ten list already. But it's set in a

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Speaker 3: small village in the north of England, and it's about

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Speaker 3: five young working class men who have all grown up together.

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Speaker 3: They're stuck in this small town. They're broke. There isn't

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Speaker 3: any jobs and so they spend their days doing petty crimes,

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Speaker 3: things like stealing Shetland ponies to order. And one of

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Speaker 3: the friends wants to leave their village and go off

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Speaker 3: and do bigger and better things, and it makes others

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Speaker 3: start to question what they want to do with their lives. Now,

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Speaker 3: I will say this is not a politically correct TV show.

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Speaker 3: It's created by Joe Gilgan, who plays Vinnie in This

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Speaker 3: and who was also in This Is England. It reminded

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Speaker 3: me of Shameless and or The in Betweeners. You know,

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of swearing, there's a lot of dodgy behavior,

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Speaker 3: but it is very funny and it's about friendship and

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Speaker 3: small town life and trying to do the right thing

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Speaker 3: failing over and over again, and it's got heart to it,

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Speaker 3: which I think is what makes it so watchable and

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Speaker 3: likable and why you end up backing these lovable rogues

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Speaker 3: because there's heart and waltonness and it is very funny

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Speaker 3: as well wonderful.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Tara. Tara's recommendations today, Department Q

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Speaker 2: is on Netflix, The Better Sister Prime Video, and Bressik

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Speaker 2: is on Netflix. And I've just seen that Lareta Switt,

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Speaker 2: who was eight it was hot Lips, and the TV

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Speaker 2: show Mash has passed away. If you're a fan of

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Speaker 2: the TV show Mash, you'll know exactly who I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: Died at age eighty seven.

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