Karl Puschmann: Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen and Your Friends & Neighbors

Something Very Bad is Going to Happen  

A bride has a feeling that something horrifying will happen at her wedding — and the closer to the altar she gets, the worse it becomes (Netflix). 

 

Your Friends & Neighbors  

When a financial titan suddenly finds himself divorced and jobless, he starts robbing his wealthy neighbors to stay afloat. Stealing from his own social circle strangely exhilarates him -- but he gradually gets tangled in a deadly web (Apple TV+). 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from news Talk said Be.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Carl Pushman is here this morning with two shows to
recommend for watching or streaming from your place. Go out
to Carl. Good morning Jack. Hello. We're going to begin
this morning with the latest show from the creator of
Stranger Things, tell us about something very bad is going
to happen.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yes, I'm going to have some minor spoilers, but nothing
more than you might have gathered from that title. It's
very descriptive, and indeed, something very bad does indeed happen
throughout and continues to happen pretty much from the word go.
The show's sort of a horror romance that perhaps not
the way you might think. The romance comes from the
show revolving around a wedding and the idea of marrying

(00:50):
your soulmate. Then the horror comes from a generational curse
that kills the bride on the evening of her wedding
day in quite gruesome fashion if the man she's married
is not in fact said soulmate, which is quite a
unique idea. And the show follows a bride Rachel a
week leading up to her wedding as she discovers first
why all these bad things are going on around her,

(01:11):
secondly if he f fiance is actually her soulmate, and
then thirdly finding a way to sort of survive the
curse if it turns out he isn't. And of course
there's loads of bad things happening. This idea isn't waste
And there's been a lot of buzz around the eight
part show. Like you said, it was produced by the
Duffer brothers who created Stranger Things, and that was a

(01:34):
slick show and sort of set a visual visual tone
for the zeitgeist in a way, and this does the
same sort of thing, but it doesn't lean on nostalgia
like that does. It's very modern and flashy, which you
know you sort of expect from those guys, right, Yeah,
And I think this would have been an absolutely cracking movie.
It would have been amazing. I would have been six episodes,

(01:56):
would have been a very good show. But at eight
it really does start to drag and lose that momentum
that it has in the first half. The first four episodes, man,
I was all in on the show. It was moving fast,
it was creepy as heck, it was dark, it was
you know, quite quite scary at times and had it
almost like a David Lynch vibe to it. It was all

(02:17):
this weird stuff happening, and it was very, very creepy
and tense. And then there's a reveal which is I
guess supposed to raise the stakes, but it kind of
just deflated them for me, which was a bit disappointing.
And then the pace really slows down and characters have
lots of earnest conversations where you're thinking, can we just

(02:39):
get back on with what's going on? So I think
they just like cut it down to six episodes. That
would have helped a lot, but it's still you know,
I still wanted to see. I stayed right to the end.
I wanted to see what was happened, what would happen,
how they're going to resolve this thing. I was very
curious to see what was going to go on. But
it did feel not a slog. But you know, there

(03:01):
were differently get.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Out more than was necessary sometimes Lisa's more with these things.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
I think so, and especially with you know, with Horror,
you want to keep that kent awful atmosphere, and it
does lead to like sort of like a commediately horrific finale,
I think is a way to almost compensate for that
slow sort of pace that it falls into. But by
then it wasn't enough. It was almost comedically comedically gory
in a way. So it's not very it's not very bad,

(03:29):
but I would say it's probably average. It would have
been an amazing an amazing movie. But yeah, eight episodes
so long?

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, yeah, Well it depends how the weather is of
your plays, you know, if it's if it's one of
those weekends, then maybe eight episodes isn't actually too many.
But yeah, okay, get the message there. So that's that's
something very bad is going to happen. That's streaming on
Netflix and on Apple TV plus. Tell us about your
friends and neighbors.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Now this is season two has just started, and I
was super invested in season one. I don't know if
you know much about it. It's a crime drama with
you know, a little little comedy thrown in here and
there the light of the mood, and it hasn't a
great premise as well. John Ham stars as a recently
divorced hedge fund manager who gets fired from his job
so to keep himself in the lifestyle he's accustomed to.

(04:16):
He starts robbing his neighbors in the extremely wealthy neighborhood
that he lives in. So he do things like he'll
break into their house and steal a rolix from their collection,
or a piece of jewelry from the jewelry draw just
small little items that are worth a lot of money
but wouldn't be immediately noticeable, which is how he gets

(04:37):
away with it. So it was a lot of funny.
He'd have these great high scenes when he's breaking into
people's houses and you know the show, and getting around
their dogs and things like that, and they explained how
he sort of would bypass alarm systems and things like that,
so it was a lot of fun and they sort
of balance that heist with the family drama of him
and his divorce process and things like that, so it

(04:58):
was it was quite good, and it ended on an
almighty cliffhanger that I've been waiting a full year to see.
How are they going to get themselves out of this thing?
Like it was major. I was like, Oh, this is
going to be great, explain away, So I was really man,
I was ready. So imagine my disappointment Jack when they
simply hand waved the whole thing away. It was such

(05:20):
a letdown. You would not believe they do a time jump.
They sort of a couple of characters mentioned it a
couple of times.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
I won't spoil what they do, but I will say
that it was very lame and sort of up there
with and it was all a dream.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
So after that, it was very hard to get to
invest into season two, because you know, once you've been cheated,
once you're not lying again. They introduced James and Marsden
to the cast, who you might know from the Sonic movies,
and you know, he's been a movie since X Men,
way back in the twenty two thousands naughties, and he

(05:58):
plays sort of a charismatic, mysterious, extremely wealthy new neighbor
and he has a sort of like gregarious energy about
him and he comes in and he's all vibing and
he's great and quite a perfect foil to John Ham's,
you know, sort of signature, dead pan, cynical kind of
performances that he does. So those two work together really great,
and it's really fun and it's still flashy and it's
still fun to watch, and it's got the Apple Premium

(06:20):
look to it, but I just can't get as invested
because what they did, how they got out of season ones.
Yeah that is. It's still a fun watch, like you know,
you sit there, you watch it, but there's just something
holding you back from being like I'm all investing.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah yeah, okay, So that's your Friends and Neighbors. That's
on Apple TV Plus. And Carl's first pick for us
this week is something very Bad is going to Happen.
That's the one that's from the makers of Stranger Things
that's streaming on Netflix. All the details for those shows,
of course, will be up on the News talks 'b website,
and you can hear more from Carl on his sub
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