Tara Ward: Spinoff Staff Writer on what to watch this weekend

Spinoff Staff Writer Tara Ward joins Jack Tame on Newstalk ZB Saturday Morning – to discuss what to watch this weekend. 

Red Eye - A British thriller that takes place on an all-night flight as a police officer transports an English doctor back to China to face trial for murder (ThreeNow) 

Under the Bridge - Riley Keogh and Lily Gladstone star in this true crime drama about the death of a fourteen-year old Canadian girl, and the teenagers who killed her (Disney+) 

Tour de France - Unchained: A second season of the thrilling behind the scenes documentary series about the Tour de France (Netflix) 

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Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Right now, it is twenty three minutes past ten. If
you're looking for something good to watch or stream this weekend,
good news. Tara Ward, our screen time expert, has her recommendations. Hetara,
good morning. Okay, three very different shows to talk about.
Let's start off with a show that's streaming on three now.
Tell us about Red Eye.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, if you're looking for something a bit far fetched
and ridiculous but also quite enjoyable this weekend, this is
my wreck. This is Red Eye. It's a British thriller
and it's about an English doctor who is returning from
a work trip to China and when he lands in
the UK, he's arrested for murder and is extradited back
on a flight to China to face his crime. Now,
the doctor says he's innocent, he says he's being framed,

(00:54):
and on the flight back, most of the show takes
place on the plane itself. Weird things start to happen.
There are mysterious deaths, there are poisonings, and the detective
who's taking the doctor on the flight has to try
and work out what's going on? And it's that whole
idea that you know, you're on this confined space for
several hours. How can all these strange things be happening? Now?
The thing about Red Eye is that you will need

(01:15):
to suspend disbelief big time. Things happen in this that
are completely implausible. There are so many plot holes. But
I think if you go in with you know, lower expectations.
It's not Sunday Masterpiece theater. This is a fun little thriller.
It's fast paced, it's bingeable, it's entertaining. It's a bit
of fun that you shouldn't take too seriously.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Nice, Okay, cool. That's on three now. The show is
called red Eye on Disney Plus. Under the Bridge.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, a much more darker, more serious drama this time.
This is a true crime series and it's based on
a murder that took place in nineteen ninety seven and
British Columbia and Canada. And the show follows a journalist
who's writing a book about a foster home for girls
in her hometown and what it's like to be one
of these teenagers. And at the same time as she's
writing the book, a local teenager goes missing and has

(02:02):
found murdered, and the journalist starts to realize that the
girls that she's interviewed from the Foster home linked to
the crime. It stars Lily Gladstone actually Punjabi from The
Good Fight, and Riley Keoh who was in Daisy and in
The Six So it's got a great cast. And it's
quite a heavy story, of course, because the crime was
quite shocking at the time, and you know, it has
this sort of fitting gloomy and dark feel to it,

(02:24):
but also quite compelling as well. And I think if
you like, you know, those dark true crime dramas like
The Staircase or The Act or Under the Banner of Heaven,
I think you'll enjoy this as well.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Cool okay, And the show that I love on Netflix
Tour de France Unchained.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, this is back for a second season. This is
one of the most exciting shows on Netflix, I think.
And if you've seen Drive to Survive, which is Netflix's
show about Formula one, this is like Drive to Survive,
but for the Tour de France. It's made by the
same production team, similar kind of structure, and it's a
documentary series that takes you behind the scenes of the
Tour de France bike race. It follows about I think
about ten teams through the race and talks to the riders,

(03:02):
to the coaches, to the people and the cars driving
behind the paloton. You really get to know the people involved,
and it's just full of so much action and drama
from the race. It makes it feel like you're actually
there writing with them. The camera work is amazing, the
crashes are spectacular. It shows how dangerous it is, and
I think the best thing about the show is that
you don't need to know anything about cycling to enjoy this,

(03:23):
so you can just pick it up as you go
along and you will be an expert by the end
of it.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
So what are we going to call these kind of shows?
Don't you think we're at the point now where we
need to we need to give the genre a bit
of a name. Yeah, it's like that sport you mentor
or something a ya.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Because it's not kind of a historic looking back on something.
It puts you in the moment and as if you're there,
which I think is kind of that new, exciting, fast
paced adrenaline kind of sports.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
See.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, it's funny right because I so I really enjoy
the Tour de France, and I don't know why, but
I always sort of watch it, and you know, when
the first season of this came out, I knew what
the results were, and I kind of knew, you know,
the kind of main store lines from the from the
tour to front, and yet I still found it really compelling.

(04:10):
And I think that's the amazing thing about this, and
it's the same with Drive to Survive, is they've managed
to make it interesting for people who are already fans
of the sport exactly whilst at the same time introducing
millions more people to it, right, because even if you're
not a big cycling fan or you're not a big
motorsport fan, you can kind of appreciate the drama ape.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, And it's not easy to strike that balance without
sort of appearing kind of condescending to the real cycle
fans who you know a lot about it, but also
keeping those strangers to the sport invested and you know,
coming back to it going to that next episode.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, it's intriguing ape well, sports your mentor or something
like that. It's funny though, because there's a bit of
a pushback a like an if one for example, Maxistapan
still isn't taking part in Drive to Survive, even though
he's the top driver in the world right now, Like
he just doesn't want to go near it because he
was unhappy about how his portrayed early on and that

(05:08):
kind of thing. And so yeah, it's it's interesting, you know,
and I think some of the purists in these sports
would say, oh, well it's trivializing the sport or something
like that.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
But taking the mystery out of it as well.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, people might just want to keep.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Those things secret and private. Yeah, everyone to know what's
going on.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
It's funny anyway, Thank you so much, really appreciate it. Tara.
That is Tara Award, our screen Time Expert person with
one of the best jobs in the world, watching heaps
of TV shows so she can recommend her favorites to
us those shows once again. Red Eye is on three now,
Under the Bridge is on Disney Plus. Tour de France
Unchained is on Netflip

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