Karl Puschmann: Stranger Things. The Beatles Anthology, Here We Go

Stranger Things   

The final season. In 1980s Indiana, a group of young friends witness supernatural forces and secret government exploits. As they search for answers, the children unravel a series of extraordinary mysteries (Netflix).  

The Beatles Anthology 

The Beatles’ landmark “Anthology” documentary series has been restored and remastered. 

The series’ original eight episodes trace the legendary journey that began in Liverpool and Hamburg and soon captivated the world. They bring to life the timeless stories — of Beatlemania, the band’s groundbreaking arrival in the USA, their role at the forefront of the 1960s counterculture, their spiritual exploration in India, and their eventual breakup. And through it all, the constant thread: the music, always the music. 

There is now a completely new Episode Nine, including unseen behind-the-scenes footage of Paul, George and Ringo coming together between 1994 and 1995 to work on “The Anthology” and reflecting on their shared life as The Beatles (Disney+). 

Here We Go  

In this hilariously unfiltered portrait of family life, the Jessops are the subject of their son Sam's amateur film project, as they go about their mundane but chaotic lives (TVNZ+). 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Ab Cal Pushman is in for this week's screen time.
Three shows to watch from the company You Couch, Get
a Carl Wandering Jack. Let's begin with the final season
of Stranger Things.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's the big news this week. The cult classic finally
takes us back to the upside down for the last time.
Almost we almost get all the way there, which I'll
explain about in a second. But the hype around the
show has just been huge. You know, Stranger Things is
a bona fide cult classic. It was one of Netflix's
first big global breakout hits when it launched in twenty sixteen,

(00:44):
so it's crazy to think that it's been running for
almost ten years, which sort of makes you feel a
bit oh, doesn't it. Yeah, that time marches on and
the biggest suspension of disbelief you need to know now
isn't really buying into the demonic underworld of what's going
on in the small town of Hawkins. But it's at
the core. Cast of twenty something actors are still high

(01:05):
school age, are saying to look a little bit old.
So it is quite glad that we're in the final
season the home stretch. Now, now that isn't a problem
for our very own nol Fisher, who joined the cast
for this final season. She's been tipped as our next
big acting thing. And you might recognize her from last
year's excellent family adventure film Bookworm, which was from Stranger

(01:28):
Thing you know, sorry, the Strange Film Festival curator and Tipson,
where she start alongside Elijah Wood, which was just a great,
great family film. She plays a really prominent part in this.
You know, she's only fourteen and she plays a really
prominent part in this final season and she's just great,
really great. Yeah, the story picks up eighteen months after
we last saw everyone and there was the big apocalyptic ending.

(01:53):
It's eighteen months on the towns and Quarantine and the
core group are sort of doing recon missions back into
the upside down just to make sure that the big
bad Vickner is actually demised. Whether it is or not,
I don't know, but there's a lot of evilness going
on still, so there's a lot to go. And I
mentioned it wasn't quite the final time. Netflix are doing

(02:15):
that thing where they split the final season and sort
of tease it out, so we've got four episodes. Now,
Christmas Day there'll be another couple, and then on Prime
TV viewing night of New Year's Eve, the final episode drops.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Wow, here's a curious time to drop it.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
It is. It is. Now. What I'm thinking though, is
that because we're globally we're in the upside down, that
all might happen for us on Boxing Day or New
Year's Day, which acually works out quite well.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
So yeah, that would be very good. Actually, yeah, okay, cool,
So that's a stranger thing. It's on Netflix, on Disney
Plus the Beatles Anthology.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
It's been a good run for Beatles fans lately. You know.
Last year we had Sir Pete's excellent Get Back, the
eight hour massive documentary which was of filming Let It Be,
which was just amazing. Then after that there was the
Martin Scoosese he produced Beatles sixty four, which detailed their
first tour of America, their big breakthrough tour in America.

(03:14):
And now this is a remaster, you know, so peeks
back at it again. It's a big remaster of the
Beatles Anthology series which came out back in the nineties. So,
you know, Beagles fans from back then we'll know it.
There's nothing new really here. Well there's one new episode
tacked on to the end, but it's pretty much just
a remaster of the original series, which you know, it's

(03:36):
still brilliant. It looks amazing. Giles Martin, the son of
original Beagles producer George Martin, has gone back and redone
all the sounds, so it sounds incredible. You know, it's
using that technology that they use to do get back,
so it's never looked better. They never sounded better. Brilliant
viewing if you're a Beatles.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Fan, Yeah, very good. Okay, so that's on Disney Plus,
that's Beatles Anthology and on Tevy and z Plus. Here
we go.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yes, this British sitcom. It's flown under the radar. It's
kind of old school in some ways where it's a sitcom,
but it's not the hand laughter you know, crazy wacky
next door neighbor kind of thing. I thought does have
a crazy uncle in the in the show, but it's
it's very incredibly funny. It stars Catherine Parkinson, who you

(04:26):
might know from the very good It Crowd comedy which
she plays sort of the same kind of character here.
It's about a dysfunctional family in a British town, and
the gimmick of the show is sort of that their
teenage son is filming the series constantly filming everyone. That
sort of gets played down a bit as it goes on.
The real big twist that the series does so brilliantly

(04:49):
is that each episode starts an absolute chaos, and then
it flashes back and you start to see how they
ended up in these chaotic situations. So it plays around
with the timeline, so it jumps backwards and forwards and
it's just really clever. And so when it finds screw
it is so funny. I found myself sometimes just in

(05:10):
tears of laughter. It just nails it. So it's it's
got a cult following. TV and Z Plus has all
three seasons. There is a fourth season coming out next year,
so you know it's it's not a dead series. It's
definitely worth checking out and it's incredibly funny.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh it sounds really good. Okay, I'm looking forward to
watching that.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
That's a bit of me.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
I love a British that come anyway. So that's here
we go. That's on TV and Z Plus. The Beatles
Anthology is on Disney Plus and Stranger Things. The final
season is streaming on Netflix. All of those shows will
be on the News Talks website, and of course you
can hear more from Karl on his sub stack. It's
called screen Crack.

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