Tara Ward: Elsbeth, Presumed Innocent, The Outlaws

Elsbeth  

When the world's top tennis champion drops dead on the court, Elsbeth and Kaya home in on a rising tennis star and his competitive father and coach; Capt. Wagner begins to suspect Elsbeth's reason for being in New York goes beyond the consent decree (TVNZ+, from Tuesday 25 June). 

 

Presumed Innocent  

A horrific murder upends Chicago's prosecuting attorneys' office, as one of its own is suspected of the crime (Apple TV+). 

 

The Outlaws  

Stephen Marchant’s comedy about seven wayward strangers doing their community service returns for a third season, but can any of these ‘outlaws’ really reform? (Prime Video). 

 

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Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:12):
It is screen Time time. Our screen time expert Tara
Ward is here with her shows to recommend this morning.
Hey Tara, good morning. Let's kick off this morning with
a show streaming on Apple tv Plus starring Jake Jillen Hall.
Tell us about Presumed Innocent.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, this is a crime drama that's made by David E.
Kelly and as you say, stars Jake Jillen Hall. And
it's a remake of the movie of the same name
that starred Harrison Ford back in the nineties. And Jake
Gillenhall plays a county prosecutor. He's a hot shot lawyer,
he's a family man, and then he's accused of the
murder of one of his colleagues, who it turns out

(00:49):
he was also having an affair with. And the question
here is he being set up by his enemies or
is he actually guilty? And has he framed another man
for a similar crime from years ago? And Jake Gillenhall's
character has to prove his innocent and we have to
decide whether we believe him or not. There's a really
good cast and this Peter sALS Guard Stars and this
as well. It's very glossy and polished, which you know

(01:12):
we've come to expect with Apple TV Plus shows. It
is quite a slow burn. There's eight episodes here, which
I think maybe might be just a little bit too long,
might have been a bit tighter as a movie. But
you know, it's doing what a lot of TV shows
are doing at the moment. It's it's fine, it's good TV.
It looks great, it ticks all the boxes, but it's
not particularly memorable or exciting. It's sort of sticking to

(01:35):
that tried and true courtroom drama kind of series, you know,
but still a good, solid watch.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Nice, Okay, so that's presumed innocent. On Apple TV Plus,
tell us about Elsbeth and.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
This is a new American drama that's coming to TVNZ
one and TVNZ plus this week. It's another crime drama,
but quite different in tone. This is quite light and colorful.
It's about a woman named Elsbeth, who was originally a
character on two very successful shows called The Good Wife
and The Good Fight, both legal dramas, and she was
sort of of a fan favorite. And now they've given

(02:09):
her her own spin off. Series, and Elsabeth is this quirky, cooky,
unconventional kind of lawyer with a razor sharp mind. She
works in police surveillance, so she turns up to crime
scenes to make sure that the police are following the rules.
And she's supposed to be an impartial observer, but she
can't help herself from putting her two cents and solving

(02:30):
the crimes. And every episode of this series is a
different crime. So it's one of those murder of the
week kind of shows. Everything is tied up nice and
neatly after an hour, and it's a murder mystery that
leans more onto the comedic side of things rather than
a drama. So you don't need to have seen the
good fight or the good wife for this to make sense.
And I think if you like shows like My Life

(02:51):
Is Murder or Monk, then this is in that same
kind of style. You know, it's light, easy to watch,
warm and add a bit of fun.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Cool okay, And on Prime Video The Outlaws.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, third season of this BBC series has just dropped
on Prime And this is a great British comedy series
that I think has flown under the radar. But here
it's created by and stars Stephen Merchant, and it's about
seven strangers from very different backgrounds who end up on
the same community service team in Bristol. So the very
different people brought together to do some community work to

(03:24):
pay for their low level crimes. And they are tiding
up a local hall where they discover a bag full
of cash and the ceiling and find themselves tangled up
in this drug deal that's going on. They have to
decide as a group whether they'll go straight and live
honest lives or whether they'll use that money to their
advantage to kind of kickstart the lives that they've always wanted.

(03:46):
This comes with such a great cast as well as
Stephen Merchant, there's Christopher Walkendle, Tomlinson, Jessica Gunning, Jessica Gunning
Sorry from Baby Reindeer. And it kind of bounces between
being a comedy and a thriller, but it's got a
lot of heart as well.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah cool, Okay, that sounds great too, So that's the Outlaws.
I love Stephen Merchant, It's just so great. He's fantastic,
isn't he felt like he was kind of the underrated
genius behind your vas don't you think?

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah? I think you might be right, and he's sort
of got on to do lots of other things. Yeah,
this is just so great.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah yeah. I used to way back in the day
when they first started working together. I used to listen
to their podcast and I always felt, Yes, Stephen Mintionin
is so wetty, like he's he's funny in a way
that you know, likedre. I say, no one outside of
Britain could ever be Britain particular West. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah,
so that's very much a better meat. That's the Outlaws.

(04:36):
It's on Prime Video Presumed Innocent, The one with Jake
Gyllenhall is on Apple TV Plus, and Elsbeth is on
TV and Z Plus.

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