June 5, 2025 • 17 mins
First up, Survivors drops on Netflix tonight. An Aussie murder mystery packed with small-town secrets, haunting tension, and a seriously gripping story.
Then, there’s a new comedy series on Disney+, Adults, that captures the chaos of twenty-something life in New York. It’s a fresh take on adulting, full of relatable misadventures and co dependent friendships.
And finally, a buzzy limited series, Better Sister, full of complicated family dynamics and a murder mystery that’ll keep you hooked all weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
So much.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and borders
that this podcast is recorded.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
On from Mamma Mia. Welcome to the Spill your daily
pop culture Fixed.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I'm m Burnham and I'm Laura Brodnick, and.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
It is a very special weekly weekend watch episode.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yes, where we talk about the best new TV shows
and movies that have just come out this week that
we get to see before everyone else. A little cavia
that you have, just, may we just throw the rules
out the window because everyone keeps breaking them? I break this.
It's okay because there are two amazing shows that we've
both watched that we need to talk about that you're
going to bring yees first, May I just adhere to
the rules for a moment. May I cling to some
(00:59):
sort of semblance of order on this podcast because I
need to talk about a new murder mystery drama that's
coming out on Netflix today. It should be out around
five pm. Okay, with a small caveat so when you
watch something before everyone else, you know how we go
to movie screenings or we get like screeners put in
our account to watch things early there's always what's called
(01:21):
an embargo where they say you cannot share your thoughts
until this date, and you often have to sign a
legal letter. I sign your legal letters. You just tell me.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
She just tells me to shut up whenever I'm talking
too much about your show.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I was I handle all your legal my lawyer. I'm like,
you're guying, So I've taken care of that for you.
So this episode comes out at six am on a Friday.
The embargo lifts at five pm Friday afternoon.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Okay, so if you're listening to this before five pm, don't.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
No. Instead, I'm not going to give any review or thoughts.
I'm simply going to tell you that this show is
out in the world.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
The lawyer approved.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
In case the Netflix legal team is listening, this is
all above board. So it's called The Survivors. And why
I wanted to bring it up is I just think
everyone will want to watch it this weekend because it
is based on one of Jane Harper's, one of the
most successful Australian authors of all time. We love all
her books, we have all the adaptations of her work.
It's based on her best selling novel The Survivors and
(02:27):
it's got an incredible Australian cast. Again, this is all
Have I seen the show or not? You couldn't tell
I have. I have said, this is all above board.
So the story tracks Kieran Elliott, whose life is changed
when three people died in a seaside town and Evelyn Bay.
Have you read this book first?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I actually have it.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
My mom's read it. She loves Yeah. Again, your mom
has the best taste and my mom to get there.
I relate way more to your mom than you, even
though we're not the same age, or are we, But
this is anyone who loves that really atmospheric murder mystery,
especially with they're astray in twist to it. So then
fifteen years later, Kieran and his young family return home
(03:08):
and they're confronted by this terror murder situation that happened
many years ago. And so then the Evelyn Bay community
wants answers, and they said about trying to uncover the
mystery of what led to these deaths. So we've got
like the family side of it, we've got the murder
mystery side, got an incredible Australian cast.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Australian murder mysteries just hit a whole new leg.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, and again that's not about this show.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
That's about any show, especially shows are already out.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Okay, so Embargo heered to, I haven't reviewed it. I've
simply said show.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
It is a show.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, it's a show that's coming into the world today.
That's a fact. So the survivors on Netflix, you could
who could say if it's good or bad?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Not me?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Not until after five pm. We actually will have a
review going up on Mama Mea after five pm. So
come and find us then, I guess we'll post it
to the spill, post it to the Seconal Instagram page
so you can see it. Okay my term, Yes, your turn.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Okay, So I want to talk about a show that
I think both of us have watched. Yes, it's called adults.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And that's how you say it.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I sometimes say adults.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Do you want to say adults?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Adults? I say adults adults. I don't say adults, but
I feel like which one's right. I can't now I'm
saying it too much.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
The word means something to me. So you know what,
but adults don't go around saying adults.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
It's called adults. And okay, So the reason I clicked
into the show. Firstly it was everywhere, but then I
saw a review and I did the classic even though
we are in media, I did something that we shouldn't
be doing. What I just read the headline.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Oh, Emily, I know.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
That it was a good headline because it was like
gen X had sex in the city, millennials had girls
adults is for gen z.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Oh, I feel like that's so true. Okay, in that case,
it's okay because you didn't read a headline about a
rumor and take away like the wrong story. Yes, well,
have Walton got this situation? Emily's spreading vicious rumors, which
she's wont to do. You went to Disney Plus and
watch the show? Yes, yes, okay.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So the show is about five friends in their twenties.
They live in New York. They live in Queens, New York,
and that's it. They basically just it's really funny. I
don't know how to explain this.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Well, it's really funny. Not mean.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
They live in like a share.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
House that they pay no rent. They pay no.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Rent because one of the guy's parents, I'm just beating
with yours. It's one of the guy's parents house and
they just go through the issues at all twenty year
old something's go to. They go through like dating relationships,
not being able to pay their hospital bill, getting fired
from work for inappropriate reasons. It was one of those
(05:55):
shows that I saw the first episode and initially I
was like, oh, this could be a bit cringe, like
a bit too much, like a bit like someone older
writing about gen Z's what it felt like. Yeah, And
then immediately, like twenty minutes in, I was hooked. It
is so funny. I was laughing so loud. There's this
actor in it. His name is Jack in that in
(06:17):
he plays Paul Baker. Yeah, And when I was watching
the show, I was like, he looks really familiar, Like, well,
how do I know him? He's a TikToker and I've
seen his tiktoks And it's so funny because since the
show's come out, he's been making so many tiktoks and
he's like, guys, the show's been out for a week,
can someone please make a thirst trap on me? Like
I'm trying really hard, Like guys, please someone like talk
(06:38):
about me, like start roomors about me, please, Like this
show I needed to do really well. And then I
looked at the look at the IMDb page where you
know how when you type in a show and to Google,
the IMDb automatically gets pulled and you see all the
cast and all their photos. Out of the whole cast
that all day, he's the only one without a photo.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I'm not on. I know Jack would hate where to
kick that man when he's down. Sorry, Jack, but I
just found it.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
So funny cause of your TikTok's that's so so like hopeful,
like he.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Just wants people just want to be famous. I think
this is going to I mean, obviously there's a lot
of people in the cast who have done a lot
of amazing work before, but I think this is going
to make stars of them. It's so funny because it
does feel very gen z in terms of like the
topics they're talking about, and like the conversations and like
the phrases they use.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
But because the first episode first seen, yeah, hectic.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
No, I want to get to that. I want to
get to that. But I just want to say, even
though it's about people in their twenties, I feel like
it is one of those shows that any age can watch.
Because I'm in my thirties and I related to it
so much because it's that moment in time where you've
left school and college or university in Australia, you're trying
to figure out the world. It's actually really hard and
not what you thought it was going to be, but
your friends become your family and you spend all your
(07:54):
time with them in this really codependent way, and then
you're having like breakups and getting fired from your job
on this sort of stuff. So even though like the
way it's done feels very new for this generation, it
feels like watching it feels like coming home to that
time and your life if you're older. So it's one
of those shows that.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
True, which I feel like is exactly what gen X
felt about Girls. Yes, yeah, yeah, And I think after
I read that headline and not the article, I'm so sorry.
It feels like it's one of those shows that even
the younger generation, which apparently there is a younger one
than gen.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Z, Yeah, it's Generation Alpha coming for you.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I feel like this could be their Girls.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I loved it. I like just sped through this show
so fast. I was screaming at my TV half the
time and laughing and also just being like I cannot
believe you guys said that, like the Brettan Frasier sexual assaultier.
But I was like, you know what funny is funny?
But also okay, opening scene, This opening scene should go
down in history as one of the greatest opening scenes
of TV. And I don't even say that to be
dramatic because it packs the biggest punch. It immediately sets
(08:56):
the world up and you're looking at it being like,
I can't believe I just watched that. Tell the people
what it is. Tell the people.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
So the five friends, I can't believe of making me
actually please and in detail, okay, the five friends are
on a train in New York going somewhere on a
subway on a sorry, they're on the subway and they're
on the New York subway where going And there's a
lot of people on the subway. There's also a masturbator,
(09:25):
a chronic masturbator.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
The classic being if you've ever been in New York subway,
you've probably seen this. It's an older white man in
like kind of quite nice clothings and like not homeless. Sorry, yeah,
sitting on a seat just fully masturbating and making eye
contact with whatever poor woman is next to him.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Yes, and the five friends are like, don't look, don't look,
don't look. But then Issa, who's played by Amina Row,
who's absolutely brilliant in this show. I think she might
be the breakout star yeah show. She's phenomenal her character.
She's like, no, you know what we should looks.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
She just stares at him, and then the friends are like,
I think he's into this. She's like, you know what,
let's do it back at him, so that she gets
up and puts her hand down her pants and start
vigorously moving her hand, which just makes him get.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Off, like masturbating in sinc and her friends and just
like stop this, stop this. He just stop filming, and
they're like, stop filming. And then one of the one
of the guy friends in their group goes trying to
defend her. He's like, she's doing this for your daughter.
And then he's like thirty points to this nurse who's
seeing there reading a book. He's like, you should have
stepped in, and she was like, I'm literally not involved
in it. And then they get off the subway and
(10:42):
she's so shell shocked at what just happened. And then
she was like he didn't come did he? Like it's fine.
They're like, no, he didn't, and then he looked away
and their friends like he totally came in. It's on
my shoe.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
And that was like the first scene of the first episode.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Welcome to the show credits playing you're like, okay, I've
seen so much in like it's a three minute section
of the show.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
And it's that like commentary that we love in TV
shows where they all speak really fast and on top
of each other, like she's masturbating. You can hear the
others in the background going, oh no, don't talk faster.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's funny, so good, and then it tracks the rest
of the story to like their showers and all these
stories they have, like the pop culture references are so
good and they come so so fast.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah. Just I love this show. I love everything about it.
Have you seen the videos of the cast getting told
they got the job because they bring them onto a zoom.
They're really cute. They bring them on to a zoom,
and the creative the show is like, let's do some
like role play. Let's like do some like riof off
each other, and they're like, oh okay, and then he
tells them they got the job, and they're all just like,
are we riffing? Do they get the job? What's happening?
(11:50):
It's really good.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Oh that's so cute. Anyway, that's adult on a Disney plus.
All episodes you can watch right now.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I always thought the world was going to be waiting
for me, and instead everyone's annoyed that I'm here.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Sure, Kelly, Yeah, I'm gonna be camera off today. Yeah,
I'm in the office. Yeah, there's just some instruction in
my cubicle. Oh, it's getting louder. This is the Humble
Bone Humble Oh my god, Hi, you said dress up? Yeah,
(12:24):
like a normal guy, not like you run Gotham City.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You look like a little rascal.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Dude, do you look like a little rascal?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You look incredible?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Are you good? I'm good?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Clear, Seriously, can't with this veil. It's tradition in my culture.
You can't just say that when you want to wear something.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
My next show, okay, also also eight episodes, a bit different.
It's on Prime Video and it's called The Better Sister.
It stars Jessica Vial and Elizabeth Banks and they play
sisters who are estranged. It's a very complicated relationship they
go through and I don't think this is a spoiler
because this literally happens in the first scene of episode one.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Oh you can say nice to say, hey, this is
the scene of like their relationship is a setup. Okay.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
So Jessica Beale plays Chloe, and her husband, who's played
by Corey Stole the hottest man.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Really do you not think so? You know, he's a
very attractive man, but I wouldn't say he's the hottest
man ever. Really?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
In which scene all that? Well? Eat at the party
scene when he's in the Nights outfit.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Not in like the show, like I mean in general,
like celebrity man.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh okay, we women. I have to go look at
some first traps and just see what.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Oh my god. Okay I thought this was common knowledge. Okay,
maybe I need to put myself out there.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Because, like when you found Penny Wise attractive, I just
there's some things I can't get on board with. I
am not taking that back, he says. So Corey plays
Adam McIntosh, who is Chloe's husband, and right from the
get go you find out he is brutally murdered and
you see it, and the whole show kind of unpacks
who murdered him. It goes back in time where you
(14:02):
see like how their lives became, how they are now.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
It's very complicated. Elizabeth Bangs plays Nikki, who's Biels, who
plays Chloe's sister, and she comes back in their life.
They have a son. It's really really highly intense, Like
I found it so intense and so gripping, and it's
one of those shows that you physically can't look at
your phone because a minute you look at your phone,
you missed.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
So you'll miss something. There's so much like secrecy about
this family and so much coming in and like Jessica
Biel and Elizabeth Banks are both so good in this,
and it's interesting because like they've been around for both
of them, they've had really long careers. They've both done
like the comedy rom com kind of thing, and then
they both transitioned into doing more drama, and they both
transitioned into being like more full time producers and directors
(14:47):
than actors. So it's really interesting to see them come
back and be these kind of two code leads. And
Jessica Bill's Chloe is initially presented as like she's the uptight,
good sister, and then Elizabeth Banks's Nikki is like the
off the rails drug addicts sister, and that reveal at
the kid's birthday party when you sort of find out
how their dynamic has switched and like the parentage of
(15:08):
the sun and all that sort of stuff. It's just
a small moment, but it really kind of sets you off.
The access story that's coming.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Is absolutely incredible. Also, I find as her profession Chloe's
an editor in cheap and a magazine, and I thought
that was really interesting.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah, everyone's like she's got the bob yeah job.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
And also the publicity that they have to control and
the pr they have to like run around when this
murder trial happens. It is so good, such good TV.
That is the better Sister on a Prime video.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Her husband has been murdered.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
And my sister is here.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
And though I am feeling anxiety about this, I said, so,
you said, you left of eight and you came home,
put down your things, kick.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Off your shoes, came over here, but you feel something
at your feet and that's when you see.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Your husband someone stayed This are you Families? Is my
sister and Ethan's mother biological Ethan lives with me. Bethan's
other mom, Adam's ex she's unstable.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
The crazy term the world knowing you stole your sister's life.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Lauren was disarmed twenty minutes before.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Adam was killed.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
That makes sense to you, Ethan, You're asking him to
put himself in the mind of his father's killer.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Well, we think Ethan killed. I'm just shut up. Whatever's
happened between you two in the past. Ethan is in
real trouble. Now you want to protect him? Tell me everything. Well,
we hope. We've given you a lot of new options
to binge over the long weekend, just so many. I'm
gonna go watch adults again. I just need to. I
think I need to take it in again.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Yeah, it is so good, but I have survivors on
my list first.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Oh yes, yes, coming out this afternoon. Good or bath
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(17:22):
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Speaker 4 (17:29):
Bye Bye
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Lan.
So much.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and borders
that this podcast is recorded.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
On from Mamma Mia. Welcome to the Spill your daily
pop culture Fixed.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I'm m Burnham and I'm Laura Brodnick, and.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
It is a very special weekly weekend watch episode.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yes, where we talk about the best new TV shows
and movies that have just come out this week that
we get to see before everyone else. A little cavia
that you have, just, may we just throw the rules
out the window because everyone keeps breaking them? I break this.
It's okay because there are two amazing shows that we've
both watched that we need to talk about that you're
going to bring yees first, May I just adhere to
the rules for a moment. May I cling to some
(00:59):
sort of semblance of order on this podcast because I
need to talk about a new murder mystery drama that's
coming out on Netflix today. It should be out around
five pm. Okay, with a small caveat so when you
watch something before everyone else, you know how we go
to movie screenings or we get like screeners put in
our account to watch things early there's always what's called
(01:21):
an embargo where they say you cannot share your thoughts
until this date, and you often have to sign a
legal letter. I sign your legal letters. You just tell me.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
She just tells me to shut up whenever I'm talking
too much about your show.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I was I handle all your legal my lawyer. I'm like,
you're guying, So I've taken care of that for you.
So this episode comes out at six am on a Friday.
The embargo lifts at five pm Friday afternoon.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Okay, so if you're listening to this before five pm, don't.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
No. Instead, I'm not going to give any review or thoughts.
I'm simply going to tell you that this show is
out in the world.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
The lawyer approved.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
In case the Netflix legal team is listening, this is
all above board. So it's called The Survivors. And why
I wanted to bring it up is I just think
everyone will want to watch it this weekend because it
is based on one of Jane Harper's, one of the
most successful Australian authors of all time. We love all
her books, we have all the adaptations of her work.
It's based on her best selling novel The Survivors and
(02:27):
it's got an incredible Australian cast. Again, this is all
Have I seen the show or not? You couldn't tell
I have. I have said, this is all above board.
So the story tracks Kieran Elliott, whose life is changed
when three people died in a seaside town and Evelyn Bay.
Have you read this book first?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I actually have it.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
My mom's read it. She loves Yeah. Again, your mom
has the best taste and my mom to get there.
I relate way more to your mom than you, even
though we're not the same age, or are we, But
this is anyone who loves that really atmospheric murder mystery,
especially with they're astray in twist to it. So then
fifteen years later, Kieran and his young family return home
(03:08):
and they're confronted by this terror murder situation that happened
many years ago. And so then the Evelyn Bay community
wants answers, and they said about trying to uncover the
mystery of what led to these deaths. So we've got
like the family side of it, we've got the murder
mystery side, got an incredible Australian cast.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Australian murder mysteries just hit a whole new leg.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, and again that's not about this show.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
That's about any show, especially shows are already out.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Okay, so Embargo heered to, I haven't reviewed it. I've
simply said show.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
It is a show.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, it's a show that's coming into the world today.
That's a fact. So the survivors on Netflix, you could
who could say if it's good or bad?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Not me?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Not until after five pm. We actually will have a
review going up on Mama Mea after five pm. So
come and find us then, I guess we'll post it
to the spill, post it to the Seconal Instagram page
so you can see it. Okay my term, Yes, your turn.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Okay, So I want to talk about a show that
I think both of us have watched. Yes, it's called adults.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And that's how you say it.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I sometimes say adults.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Do you want to say adults?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Adults? I say adults adults. I don't say adults, but
I feel like which one's right. I can't now I'm
saying it too much.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
The word means something to me. So you know what,
but adults don't go around saying adults.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
It's called adults. And okay, So the reason I clicked
into the show. Firstly it was everywhere, but then I
saw a review and I did the classic even though
we are in media, I did something that we shouldn't
be doing. What I just read the headline.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Oh, Emily, I know.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
That it was a good headline because it was like
gen X had sex in the city, millennials had girls
adults is for gen z.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Oh, I feel like that's so true. Okay, in that case,
it's okay because you didn't read a headline about a
rumor and take away like the wrong story. Yes, well,
have Walton got this situation? Emily's spreading vicious rumors, which
she's wont to do. You went to Disney Plus and
watch the show? Yes, yes, okay.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So the show is about five friends in their twenties.
They live in New York. They live in Queens, New York,
and that's it. They basically just it's really funny. I
don't know how to explain this.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Well, it's really funny. Not mean.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
They live in like a share.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
House that they pay no rent. They pay no.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Rent because one of the guy's parents, I'm just beating
with yours. It's one of the guy's parents house and
they just go through the issues at all twenty year
old something's go to. They go through like dating relationships,
not being able to pay their hospital bill, getting fired
from work for inappropriate reasons. It was one of those
(05:55):
shows that I saw the first episode and initially I
was like, oh, this could be a bit cringe, like
a bit too much, like a bit like someone older
writing about gen Z's what it felt like. Yeah, And
then immediately, like twenty minutes in, I was hooked. It
is so funny. I was laughing so loud. There's this
actor in it. His name is Jack in that in
(06:17):
he plays Paul Baker. Yeah, And when I was watching
the show, I was like, he looks really familiar, Like, well,
how do I know him? He's a TikToker and I've
seen his tiktoks And it's so funny because since the
show's come out, he's been making so many tiktoks and
he's like, guys, the show's been out for a week,
can someone please make a thirst trap on me? Like
I'm trying really hard, Like guys, please someone like talk
(06:38):
about me, like start roomors about me, please, Like this
show I needed to do really well. And then I
looked at the look at the IMDb page where you
know how when you type in a show and to Google,
the IMDb automatically gets pulled and you see all the
cast and all their photos. Out of the whole cast
that all day, he's the only one without a photo.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I'm not on. I know Jack would hate where to
kick that man when he's down. Sorry, Jack, but I
just found it.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
So funny cause of your TikTok's that's so so like hopeful,
like he.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Just wants people just want to be famous. I think
this is going to I mean, obviously there's a lot
of people in the cast who have done a lot
of amazing work before, but I think this is going
to make stars of them. It's so funny because it
does feel very gen z in terms of like the
topics they're talking about, and like the conversations and like
the phrases they use.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
But because the first episode first seen, yeah, hectic.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
No, I want to get to that. I want to
get to that. But I just want to say, even
though it's about people in their twenties, I feel like
it is one of those shows that any age can watch.
Because I'm in my thirties and I related to it
so much because it's that moment in time where you've
left school and college or university in Australia, you're trying
to figure out the world. It's actually really hard and
not what you thought it was going to be, but
your friends become your family and you spend all your
(07:54):
time with them in this really codependent way, and then
you're having like breakups and getting fired from your job
on this sort of stuff. So even though like the
way it's done feels very new for this generation, it
feels like watching it feels like coming home to that
time and your life if you're older. So it's one
of those shows that.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
True, which I feel like is exactly what gen X
felt about Girls. Yes, yeah, yeah, And I think after
I read that headline and not the article, I'm so sorry.
It feels like it's one of those shows that even
the younger generation, which apparently there is a younger one
than gen.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Z, Yeah, it's Generation Alpha coming for you.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I feel like this could be their Girls.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I loved it. I like just sped through this show
so fast. I was screaming at my TV half the
time and laughing and also just being like I cannot
believe you guys said that, like the Brettan Frasier sexual assaultier.
But I was like, you know what funny is funny?
But also okay, opening scene, This opening scene should go
down in history as one of the greatest opening scenes
of TV. And I don't even say that to be
dramatic because it packs the biggest punch. It immediately sets
(08:56):
the world up and you're looking at it being like,
I can't believe I just watched that. Tell the people
what it is. Tell the people.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
So the five friends, I can't believe of making me
actually please and in detail, okay, the five friends are
on a train in New York going somewhere on a
subway on a sorry, they're on the subway and they're
on the New York subway where going And there's a
lot of people on the subway. There's also a masturbator,
(09:25):
a chronic masturbator.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
The classic being if you've ever been in New York subway,
you've probably seen this. It's an older white man in
like kind of quite nice clothings and like not homeless. Sorry, yeah,
sitting on a seat just fully masturbating and making eye
contact with whatever poor woman is next to him.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Yes, and the five friends are like, don't look, don't look,
don't look. But then Issa, who's played by Amina Row,
who's absolutely brilliant in this show. I think she might
be the breakout star yeah show. She's phenomenal her character.
She's like, no, you know what we should looks.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
She just stares at him, and then the friends are like,
I think he's into this. She's like, you know what,
let's do it back at him, so that she gets
up and puts her hand down her pants and start
vigorously moving her hand, which just makes him get.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Off, like masturbating in sinc and her friends and just
like stop this, stop this. He just stop filming, and
they're like, stop filming. And then one of the one
of the guy friends in their group goes trying to
defend her. He's like, she's doing this for your daughter.
And then he's like thirty points to this nurse who's
seeing there reading a book. He's like, you should have
stepped in, and she was like, I'm literally not involved
in it. And then they get off the subway and
(10:42):
she's so shell shocked at what just happened. And then
she was like he didn't come did he? Like it's fine.
They're like, no, he didn't, and then he looked away
and their friends like he totally came in. It's on
my shoe.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
And that was like the first scene of the first episode.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Welcome to the show credits playing you're like, okay, I've
seen so much in like it's a three minute section
of the show.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
And it's that like commentary that we love in TV
shows where they all speak really fast and on top
of each other, like she's masturbating. You can hear the
others in the background going, oh no, don't talk faster.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's funny, so good, and then it tracks the rest
of the story to like their showers and all these
stories they have, like the pop culture references are so
good and they come so so fast.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah. Just I love this show. I love everything about it.
Have you seen the videos of the cast getting told
they got the job because they bring them onto a zoom.
They're really cute. They bring them on to a zoom,
and the creative the show is like, let's do some
like role play. Let's like do some like riof off
each other, and they're like, oh okay, and then he
tells them they got the job, and they're all just like,
are we riffing? Do they get the job? What's happening?
(11:50):
It's really good.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Oh that's so cute. Anyway, that's adult on a Disney plus.
All episodes you can watch right now.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I always thought the world was going to be waiting
for me, and instead everyone's annoyed that I'm here.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Sure, Kelly, Yeah, I'm gonna be camera off today. Yeah,
I'm in the office. Yeah, there's just some instruction in
my cubicle. Oh, it's getting louder. This is the Humble
Bone Humble Oh my god, Hi, you said dress up? Yeah,
(12:24):
like a normal guy, not like you run Gotham City.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You look like a little rascal.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Dude, do you look like a little rascal?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You look incredible?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Are you good? I'm good?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Clear, Seriously, can't with this veil. It's tradition in my culture.
You can't just say that when you want to wear something.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
My next show, okay, also also eight episodes, a bit different.
It's on Prime Video and it's called The Better Sister.
It stars Jessica Vial and Elizabeth Banks and they play
sisters who are estranged. It's a very complicated relationship they
go through and I don't think this is a spoiler
because this literally happens in the first scene of episode one.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Oh you can say nice to say, hey, this is
the scene of like their relationship is a setup. Okay.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
So Jessica Beale plays Chloe, and her husband, who's played
by Corey Stole the hottest man.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Really do you not think so? You know, he's a
very attractive man, but I wouldn't say he's the hottest
man ever. Really?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
In which scene all that? Well? Eat at the party
scene when he's in the Nights outfit.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Not in like the show, like I mean in general,
like celebrity man.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh okay, we women. I have to go look at
some first traps and just see what.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Oh my god. Okay I thought this was common knowledge. Okay,
maybe I need to put myself out there.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Because, like when you found Penny Wise attractive, I just
there's some things I can't get on board with. I
am not taking that back, he says. So Corey plays
Adam McIntosh, who is Chloe's husband, and right from the
get go you find out he is brutally murdered and
you see it, and the whole show kind of unpacks
who murdered him. It goes back in time where you
(14:02):
see like how their lives became, how they are now.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
It's very complicated. Elizabeth Bangs plays Nikki, who's Biels, who
plays Chloe's sister, and she comes back in their life.
They have a son. It's really really highly intense, Like
I found it so intense and so gripping, and it's
one of those shows that you physically can't look at
your phone because a minute you look at your phone,
you missed.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
So you'll miss something. There's so much like secrecy about
this family and so much coming in and like Jessica
Biel and Elizabeth Banks are both so good in this,
and it's interesting because like they've been around for both
of them, they've had really long careers. They've both done
like the comedy rom com kind of thing, and then
they both transitioned into doing more drama, and they both
transitioned into being like more full time producers and directors
(14:47):
than actors. So it's really interesting to see them come
back and be these kind of two code leads. And
Jessica Bill's Chloe is initially presented as like she's the uptight,
good sister, and then Elizabeth Banks's Nikki is like the
off the rails drug addicts sister, and that reveal at
the kid's birthday party when you sort of find out
how their dynamic has switched and like the parentage of
(15:08):
the sun and all that sort of stuff. It's just
a small moment, but it really kind of sets you off.
The access story that's coming.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Is absolutely incredible. Also, I find as her profession Chloe's
an editor in cheap and a magazine, and I thought
that was really interesting.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah, everyone's like she's got the bob yeah job.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
And also the publicity that they have to control and
the pr they have to like run around when this
murder trial happens. It is so good, such good TV.
That is the better Sister on a Prime video.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Her husband has been murdered.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
And my sister is here.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
And though I am feeling anxiety about this, I said, so,
you said, you left of eight and you came home,
put down your things, kick.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Off your shoes, came over here, but you feel something
at your feet and that's when you see.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Your husband someone stayed This are you Families? Is my
sister and Ethan's mother biological Ethan lives with me. Bethan's
other mom, Adam's ex she's unstable.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
The crazy term the world knowing you stole your sister's life.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Lauren was disarmed twenty minutes before.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Adam was killed.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
That makes sense to you, Ethan, You're asking him to
put himself in the mind of his father's killer.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Well, we think Ethan killed. I'm just shut up. Whatever's
happened between you two in the past. Ethan is in
real trouble. Now you want to protect him? Tell me everything. Well,
we hope. We've given you a lot of new options
to binge over the long weekend, just so many. I'm
gonna go watch adults again. I just need to. I
think I need to take it in again.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Yeah, it is so good, but I have survivors on
my list first.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Oh yes, yes, coming out this afternoon. Good or bath
you can say. Don't forget to follow the Spill on
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And The Spill is produced by Manisha Isswarren with sound
production by Scott Stronik. Momma Mea Studio is a style
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(17:22):
dot com dot Au and we'll see you back here
in your podcast feed at three pm today for a
very special episode.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Bye Bye
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Lan.
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