Tara Ward: The Diplomat, A Remarkable Place to Die, Special Ops: Lioness

The Diplomat  

A second season of the excellent American thriller starring Keri Russell, who plays a career diplomat who must juggle her new high-profile job as ambassador to the United Kingdom and her turbulent marriage to a political star (Netflix).  

  
A Remarkable Place to Die 

Detective Anais Mallory returns to hometown Queenstown, New Zealand and faces startling homicides. She cracks cases while confronting personal ghosts from her past (TVNZ+, from Sunday). 

 

Special Ops: Lioness 

A new season of the American CIA thriller starring Zoe Saldana as an undercover agent fighting against the war on terror.  

Joe attempts to balance her personal and professional life as the tip of the CIA's spear in the war on terror. The Lioness Program enlists Cruz to operate undercover alongside Joe among the power brokers of State terrorism (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 EDB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
You with Jack Taime on News Talks ed B and
his screen Time Time. Tara Reward is our screen time expert.
She has the very difficult and glamorous job of picking
out great TV shows to recommend.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
To us a Tara, Good morning Jack.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Okay, let's begin with a new series on Netflix, tell
Us About the Diplomat.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, this is the return of one of Netflix's biggest
political thrillers. Season one came out last year and season
two dropped this week. This stars Kerrie Russell and Rufus
Sill and Kerrie Russell plays a diplomat who is reluctantly
sent to London to become the US ambassador to the UK,
and she arrives in the middle of an international political crisis.

(00:53):
There's a war with the Middle East looming, and she's
thrown into a very tense world of negotiation and standoffs
and political strategy, all while having to deal with being
in the spotlight in a way that she hasn't before
and a marriage that's falling apart as well. Her husband
is also a diplomat, but he's a bit of a
loose cannon and he likes to insert himself into situations

(01:14):
and really complicate things. This is a very, very watchable series.
It feels like a mix of The West Wing and
The Night Agent, and the cast is particularly strong. Kerrie
Russell is fantastic in this, but there's also Rory kinnear
Celia Imriy. Allison Jeddy joins the cast for season two.
There's a great mix of Australian and British actors, really

(01:35):
good pace to this. There's some humor as well, and
it's Netflix, you know, they pull you in with those
clippingers at the end of every episode. It's a very
bingeable show, you know, if you want something that's not
too serious and heavy but is also intelligent and surprising
and will take you along for the ride. This is
my muscy for the weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Fantastic. Hey, when you say it's bingeable, is it bingeable
or are they doing like one episode every week? They're
doing that really annoying drip feed thing.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
I believe.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
I know season one is up now I believe season ten,
but I'm not entirely sure. I think you can go
for gold on this one.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, Okay, that's really good. So that's the Diplomat that's
on Netflix on tvn Z Plus from this weekend. A
Remarkable Place to Die.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
This is a new local drama that starts on TVNZED
one and TVNZ Plus from tomorrow night. And if you're
a fan of shows like The Broken Wood Mysteries or
One Lane Bridge, you will enjoy this. This is a
four part murder mystery series that stars Rebecca Gidney and
Chelsea Preston Crayford, who are both, as you would expect,
fantastic in this. It's set in Queenstown, the title probably

(02:38):
gives that away, and it's about a police detective who
returns home to Queenstown. She moves in with her mum
and has to solve a series of unusual murders that
keep happening in the area. And as part of coming
back home, she has to also confront the ghosts of
her past. There's been some deaths in her family, there's
some relationship issues that she ran away from, and you know,

(02:59):
as with any good murder mystery, worlds are going to collide.
But I think one of the biggest stars in the
show essentral Otago. The scenery in this is stunning. It
does feel like they've made this with an international audience
in mind. This is the kind of familiar, easy to
watch murder mystery that will appeal to a wide global audience.
So if you love a murder mystery, this is a

(03:20):
well made, beautifully film drama. And the cast, there's a
really strong ensemble cast in this as well. They really
lift it up.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Okay, great, a remarkable place to die. So that drops
on TVNZ Plus from tomorrow. In on Prime Video Liones.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, change in Tacker, But this is a new season
of Lioness, which is a big budget American action series
that stars Zoe Sordana, Nicole Kidman, and Morgan Freeman. And
it's made by Taylor Sheridan who created big shows like
Yellowstone and Mayor of Kingstown, so there are some huge
names attached to this drama. And it's set during the
American War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Zoe's

(03:58):
Sildana plays a CIA operative who's the leader of the Lionesses,
which is this elite military team of women who work
under couver together information and the show is inspired by
a real US military program, so it's taking that well
known military world that we see a lot in films
and TV and giving it a bit of a twist
by putting a woman at the center of the story

(04:19):
who lives this double life. She's this assassin at work
and then she has to go home and live a
normal life with her family. So in a lot of ways,
it feels very familiar. It's a very big, in your
face military drama, lots of weapons, lots of violence, but
then you've got this female tist to it as well.
It is over the top and it's very American, but

(04:39):
also maybe sort of a guilty pleasure to watch and
escape into if you are a fan of those intense,
all action kind of dramas.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, fantastic. Okay, that's Lioness. So that's on Prime Video.
A Remarkable Place to Die is on TVNZ Plus, and
The Diplomat is on Netflix and A double checked Tara,
so The Diplomat that they're not doing that annoying thing, thankfully,
They've just put the whole thing online. So it is
definitely truly literally bingeable. You can watch all of the episodes.
You don't have to wait like we always had to
for the next episode to come out. In a week's time,

(05:08):
Thank you so much. All of those shows will be
on the News Talks HEV website as well if you
want to watch them this weekend. It is just coming
up to ten thirty.

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