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January 24, 2025 5 mins

Severance 

Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives; when a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs. Season 2 has just been released (Apple TV+).

The Night Agent 

While monitoring an emergency line, an FBI agent answers a call that plunges him into a deadly conspiracy involving a mole at the White House. The second season released earlier this week (Netflix).  

Karen Pirie 

After the promotion to Police Scotland's Historic Cases Unit, Karen Pirie reopens the cold case of a murdered barmaid. Her investigation unearths flaws in the original 1995 inquiry (Neon).   

 

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

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Screen Time Time with Tara Award our screen time Experts.
She's got three shows for us this weekend. Hey, Tara,
A new season of Severance is out. This is the
second season. It's on Apple TV Plus. So tell us
about Severance.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
I know a lot of people have been looking forward
to this series. It's been three years since the first
season dropped. And Seference is one of those shows that
everyone who watches it and sticks with it because it
is a little unusual says that it's one of the
best shows they have ever seen. This is a psychological
thriller and it's in that sort of sane, dystopian, uneasy
vein as Black Mirror, and it's about a man named

(00:51):
Mark who's played by Adam Scott, and his workplace colleagues
who have all voluntarily undergone a medical procedure that separates
their work selves from their home selves. So when Mark
is at work, he loses all his memory about his
life at home and vice versa, so he hears these
two personalities and it's playing with that idea of having

(01:14):
that perfect work life balance. But when a new employee
starts at this mega corporation who is quite rebellious. Mark
starts to question things and his two separate lives start
to crossover in ways that they shouldn't. I mean, as
it sounds, it is a very unusual show, but it's
surprising and it's clever, and it's one of those shows

(01:34):
that you won't always know where you are with it,
but it's done so beautifully and intelligently that it just
pulls you in. It really leans into that mundaneeness of
office life. And it's got this amazing cast Adam Scott,
Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken. It's directed by Ben Stiller. Everything
about it is quality, and it's a show that has

(01:55):
a little bit of everything in it, comedy, mystery, dystopia.
There's probably nothing else like it on television at the
moment in terms of originality and creativity.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
So if you want to watch something that's.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
A little bit thought provoking and it's going to get
you know, the brain ticking over, I really recommend this one.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Fantastic Okay, that's Severance that's on Apple TV Plus on Netflix.
The Night Agent.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, this is a second season.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Of this great American political thriller, and there's a key
we link to the show that starts Luciani the Buchanan
who has been in shows like The Broken Wood Mysteries
and Filthy Rich, but who has now reached international start
and with a starring role in one of Netflix's biggest shows.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
So this is a conspiracy thriller.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
It's about a low level FBI agent who works at
night in the basement of the White House and it's
his job to answer a phone that never rings until
one night he gets a call. It's from a woman
who's played by Luciannie Buchanan who needs his help and
he gets pulled into this conspiracy that takes.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Him right back to the White House.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
And if you like The Born Ultimatum, if you like Reacher,
if you like a fast paced thriller that's easy to watch,
I think you'll love this. It feels a bit like
a spy thriller from the nineties, and I don't mean
that in a bad way, but it's it kind of
sticks to a tried and true recipe villains and your heroes.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
There's action, an espionage, and suspense.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
It does the basics really really well, and you know,
at times it gets a bit sillian, a bit ridiculous,
but you don't.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Mind those moments because it is such a fun watch.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
And you know, like any good Netflix show, very vengeable,
some lay cliffhangers to pull you into that episode.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Mind Okay, Cool. So that's The Night Agent back for
a second season on Netflix and on Neon. Tell us
about Karen Pirii.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Yeah, this is one for crime drama fans. This is
a new Scottish murder mystery on Neon.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
It's set in.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Beautiful Saint Andrew's and it's based on a book by
criter Val mcdermit, and it's about a young female de
technic called Karen Perry who is investigating a cold case
from the nineteen nineties involving a murdered barm The case
originally went unsolved, but there's a new podcast that has
reignited public interest and Karen is told to find the

(04:14):
answers and shut things down. She finds the three men
who were the original suspects, but what she also discovers.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Is a whole lot of flaws and mistakes in the
original inquiry.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
And the show jumps back and forward between nineteen ninety
five and the current time, So the two investigations into
the same case play out beside each other, which I
really liked and what I also really liked about this
for once at a crime drama, the main detective isn't
one of those sort of really troubled, terrible people who
is bringing a lot of emotional baggage to the job.

(04:46):
She's just a very smart woman and again a bit
like The Night Agent. It's not trying to be anything
else other than a solid, very watchable TV drama.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
It feels very current. It's got this beautiful setting.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Lauren Lyle, who was an Outlander, she plays Karen and
she's great in this.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
She won a Scottish Baftor for this role.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
So you know, if you love a crime drama or
a a mystery, or if you're a fan of a
really good British drama, I think this is a great week.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
You watch superb Okay, that's Karen Perry, that's on Neon,
The Night Agents on Netflix, and Severance is on Apple
TV Plus. But don't worry if you're not scribbling that
down or typing it into your phone. We're gonna have
all of those shows up on the news talks. He'd
be websites, so you can find out more about them there.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
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