Tara Ward: Billy Joel: And So It Goes, The Twelve, Dark Winds

Billy Joel: And So It Goes 

In this candid portrait, legendary singer-songwriter Billy Joel reveals the symbiosis between his life and art, and explores the love, loss, and personal struggles that forged his character and fuel his songwriting (Neon). 

 

The Twelve 

Respected barrister Brett Colby returns to the courtroom to face a new murder trial and a new line-up of jurors. The defendant reveals a personal connection to Colby's past, and emotions are heightened as they struggle to reach their verdict (TVNZ+). 

  

Dark Winds 

Two Navajo police officers join hands to look for clues and uncover the secrets behind a brutal double murder while battling their own demons and beliefs (Netflix). 

 

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Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Tybee screen time picks for this weekend. Tara Ward has
the tough job of sifting through all of the amazing
shows that you're watch and stream to bring three recommendations
to us every week.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Get a Tara good Morning. It's a tough job. It's
a tough gig.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's a tough gig. Let's begin with a show streaming
on Neon tell Us about Billy Joel, and so it goes.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
This is a new documentary series all about Billy Joel's
life and music and career. And there are only two
episodes in this, but each one is about two and
a half hours long, so this is quite a deep dive,
and I really liked that it has the time to
build up quite a detailed, quite personal picture about Billy
Joel as a musician and a songwriter and a person.

(00:56):
Whether you get to the end of that five hours
and think it's too long, I'm not sure yet. But
the first episode deals with his early years as a
songwriter and the beginnings of his career, and the second
is his life from the eighties onwards. When MTV arrived
on the scene and sort of gave him a new
audience and a new burst of a career. So, if

(01:16):
you love American music or the seventies or eighties is
your era, and particularly, of course if you love Billy Joel.
This is a fascinating watch because it covers so much
cultural time and space and history from the nineteen sixties
all the way through to now. And Billy Joel is
looking back on his life, speaking honestly about the highs
and the lows, and comes across as as kind of

(01:39):
an ordinary guy who just wanted to make music and
didn't necessarily want all the stardom and other stuff that
came with it. There's also people like Bruce Springsteen and
Paul McCartney and Sting who talk about his influence on
their music, and some amazing footage and home movies and
personal stuff as well. So it's a really comprehensive series
that pulls lots of different threads together from one man's

(02:02):
life and gives us quite an intimate and nostalgic.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Fantastic Okay, cool, that sounds really good. So that's Billy Joel,
and so it goes. It's on Neon on TV and
z Plus you've seen The Twelve.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah, this is the return of the Twelve. This is
a great Australian murder mystery drama. It's a remake of
a Belgian TV series and I guess is a legal
drama as well. Each season of The Twelve is about
a complex murder case that goes to court and we
see the murder storyline unfold through the eyes of the jury.
So each of the twelve jury members brings their own

(02:37):
beliefs and experiences into the courtroom and as they try
to untangle their evidence and reach a consensus about whether
they accused is guilty or not guilty, and the show
is asking, you know, how do our life experiences influence
the decisions that we make and whether we're aware of
those factors or not. Season three has just landed on

(02:57):
TV and Z Plus. It stars Sam Neil who returns
as one of the defense lawyers and as always as
great in this Danielle Cormack and Sarah Piers, two other
New Zealand actors, also star in season three. So if
you like a good crime drama, it's not old fashioned,
but it's classic and it's storytelling, solid writing, solid acting.
It's not trying to do anything clever, but it's still

(03:20):
compelling TV. This is definitely worth a watch. Season two
is also on TVNZ Plus and the seasons are self
contained stories, so you can just dive right them.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah right, cool, Okay, that's the twelve that's on TVNZ
Plus and on Netflix. Dark Winds.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, Dark Ones isn't a new show. It's been hiding
away on a smaller streaming service called AMC for a
few years, but it has just come to Netflix, which
is giving it a whole new audience, which is fantastic
because it's such a great show. I guess you'd call
this a crime drama, but it's also a psychological thriller
and almost a Western as well. It's set in the

(03:55):
nineteen seventies in Arizona and New Mexico, and it's about
two dinner Navajo police officers who work on Navajo Nation,
which is the largest American Indian reservation in the States,
and they are trying to solve a double murder case.
They are dealing with a lot of local hostility, they're
trying to work with the local FBI, who work very

(04:15):
differently to them, and they're also dealing with their own
spiritual beliefs and traditions and relationships as they try and
work out what has happened in their own community. And
this is a slow burn of a series. It's not
in a hurry in a good way. It's dark and
a bit edgy, and the locations in the desert are stunning.

(04:35):
It's beautifully made. And if you're a fan of crime
dramas but you feel like you've seen every angle for
a murder mystery, this is something different. And it's very
rich in the storytelling because of the setting and the
characters and the history that anchors the show. So this
is definitely worth a look.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
We so that is Dark Wind that's on Netflix, The
Twelves on TVNZ Plus, and Billy Joel and So It
Goes is on the on Haitara. I took your advice
finally a couple of weeks late, and I went and
watched that documentary about The Biggest Loser it for TV
on Netflix. I mean, it's just isn't it amazing? How

(05:12):
like what is deemed to be okay culturally changes over
a relatively short period of time. I remember watching the show,
loving that show, finding it's so compounded, and then watching
that documentary. I was like, man, by today's standards, this
is just wildly inappropriate.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, it's amazing when you step out and look back
and think, how how did how was it okay? How
was any of the today's standards right?

Speaker 2 (05:36):
And then yeah, and like the contestants doing the challenges
where they had to build towers out of junk food
but using only their mouths to build it, and stuff like,
oh my god.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
And the number of people who watch that every week,
the people you know, it pulled in astonishing numbers of audiences,
and it was one of many shows like that.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, yeah, reasonable job of trying to bring some nuance
into it too, and suggesting that, oh, you know, there
were some components of the show that might have been
okay and good and you know, I just anyway, I
just yeah, it was a great recommendation. So thank you
very much. We very much appreciate it. Yeah, TWA's picks
will all be up on the News Talks. He'd be

(06:19):
website as well, so you can do.

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