Tara Ward: Secrets We Keep, Duster, Homebound 3.0

Secrets We Keep  

When her neighbour's au pair goes missing, Cecilie is compelled to personally investigate but as she uncovers the truth, her perfect world falls apart (Netflix). 

 

Duster

Set in the Southwest in the 1970s, a getaway driver for a growing crime syndicate sees his life go from dangerous to wildly, stupidly, dangerous when a tenacious FBI agent comes to town (Neon). 

 

Homebound 3.0  

A second season of the charming New Zealand rom com about two 30 somethings who pretend to fall in love to stop their families from interfering in their lives (ThreeNow) . 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from Newstalk ZEDB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Twenty five past ten on Newstalk ZEDB. That means, of course,
that it's screen time time. Tara Reward is our screen
time Expert's her job to bring in three shows to
recommend every week. Hey Tara, good morning. Let's begin with
the show streaming on Netflix. Tell us about Secrets We Keep.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
This is a new Danish thriller that's just landed on Netflix.
And if you're a fan of the Harlem Coben thrillers
that they have on Netflix, if you like a really stylish,
sleek mystery, then this is one for you. This is
Secrets We Keep. It's set in Copenhagen, in one of
the city's wealthiest neighborhoods called North Zealand, and it's about
what happens when an Opia goes missing, and the main

(00:51):
character is Cecil. She starts to worry when her neighbors
Filipino na nanny Ruby disappears one day, completely out of
the blue. She becomes more worried when her neighbors, who
she is close friends with, don't seem to be concerned
at all. Ruby has left her passport behind. She's not
taken any clothes, so there's definitely something wrong, and so
Cecil starts to dig into what has happened and starts

(01:14):
to uncover a lot of secrets about her friends and
her family, and everyone becomes a suspect. And this is
about power and class and what having money does to people.
And like a lot of thrillers at the moment, it's
about those lies and secrets that are just hiding underneath
that beautiful, perfect surface. And it works really well. This
is uneasy and tense, but very bingeable. The episodes are

(01:37):
just over thirty minutes long, so it doesn't waste any time.
It moves along at a cracking pace. And this would
be my weekend watch. It's a great little thriller.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Nice cool that secrets we keep. It's on Netflix on
Neon tell Us about.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Duster, Yes, something completely different. This is Dust. This is
jj abrams new show. And this is just purely fun,
entertaining television. It's set in the nineteen seventies in Arizona.
It's about a guy called Jim who is a getaway
driver for a crime boss, so he has to do
a lot of boss's dirty work and he's a bit
annoyed that he can't move up and get a better job.

(02:10):
And he meets an FBI agent who has just graduated.
She's the first black female FBI agent and she really
needs to prove herself, and she persuades Jim to act
as an informant against his boss, and so they become
this unlikely double act. They've both got their own access
to grind and they are going to team up and
take down the crime boss. And it's just a lot

(02:32):
of fun. It's very nostalgic for nineteen seventies America, so
there's some great cars and car chases in this. The
costumes are fantastic, the soundtrack is great. It's a bit
of an action comedy as well. This is the kind
of show you don't need to think too hard about.
It's not trying to do anything clever or tricky. It's
just having a good time and you can just sit

(02:52):
back and enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Nice call, that's Duster. It's on neon and on three
Now tell us about Homeward Bound three point zero.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, this is a new season of a really delightful
and funny New Zealand romantic comedy Homebound three pounds Point
is created and written by Sam Wang, who also stars
in this alongside Michelle Aang. They play two thirty year
old strangers who are both living at home with their parents.
They're sick of their parents interfering in their lives, so
they decide to fake a romantic relationship with each other

(03:23):
in the hope that pretending to be in love will
stop their families from matchmaking and trying to set them
up with people. The catch comes, of course, like any
good rom com, when they actually start to fall for
each other and their relationship becomes real, and that's when
all the troubles begin. It's a really charming series. Like
any good romcom, there are lots of misunderstandings and lots
of wacky characters and friends. I love the dynamics between

(03:46):
the two families in this. It's about two Chinese New
Zealand families, and the script moves between English, Cantonese, and Mandarin,
which is wonderful to see on screen. But the writing
is so sharp and funny and relatable. Anyone with a
family will relate to the humor in this. I just
love the show. It's a real charming, funny series and
I'm so.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Glad that they got a sub nice. Okay, that's Homeward Sorry,
home Bound three point zero. So that's on three now,
Dust is on me on Secrets We keep as on Netflix. Hey, Tara,
I've just been catching up on the later series of
Black Mirror. Have you seen that yet? Oh?

Speaker 3 (04:19):
I have. I'm a little bit scared of Black Mirror. Oh,
because it's so realistic.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
It's such an amazing show. It is just like I know,
I kind of go on about these shows. Oh, I
get incredible at the moment, but it's it is such
an amazing show. But like I have the weirdest dreams afterwards,
Like it really does keep me up. I am in
the stage of life with a three month old baby
that I should be like sleeping in every possible down moment,
but of course I find myself like lying there being like, oh, yeah,

(04:45):
are we going to reach a singularity point with AI
sometime soon? What could that mean? Like it it's so clever, Gosh,
it's clever.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Anyway, So if you haven't seen Black Mirror, there are
now seven seasons of it. It's kind of like the
Twilight Zone and that each individual kind of stands on
its own MIRRT, so you don't need to go back
and watch other seasons. They're not recurring characters or anything
like that. But I will always recommend Black Mirror to
anyone who hasn't seen it. We'll put all of Tara's
recommendations for this week's Secrets We Keep Duster and Homeward

(05:14):
Homebound three up. On the News Talks, he'd be website.

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