Tara Ward on the three new must see shows on Netflix

Toxic Town - (Netflix) Based on a true story and featuring an all-star cast, this British drama follows the story of three mothers involved in the Corby toxic waste case as they battled to hold those responsible to account.

The Mission - (Netflix) A documentary series that sees reporter Marc Fennell investigate a 1980s art heist in the Australian Outback, unravelling a true-crime story of bizarre revelations.

Running Point - (Netflix) Kate Hudson stars in this American sports comedy about a reformed party girl who has to prove herself when she’s unexpectedly put in charge of her family’s basketball team.

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Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Green Time expert Tara Award is here with her three
picks for this weekend. More than a Tara Modena Jack. Okay,
let's begin with a new show streaming on Netflix based
on a true story, tell us about Toxic Town.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, if you watched Mister Bates in the Post Office
last year and were outraged at that story about how
ordinary people were caught up in this shocking scandal and
how they took the government, took the government on to
get justice, then Toxic Town is a new show in
a very similar kind of vein. It's shocking and heartbreaking,
and it's a story about ordinary people fighting back. It's

(00:48):
set in the nineteen nineties in the English town of Corby,
where some old steel works were being redeveloped and the
ground was contaminated and as they redeveloped the site, the
practices were pretty sloppy and it was a bit of
a rush job to try and get the town back
on its feet, and the toxic waste ended up getting
into the community and around the same time, babies in

(01:09):
the town being born with physical disabilities and the mothers
of those babies made the connection. Some of them worked
at the steel work site, some of them had partners
who worked there, some lived nearby. They realized what was
going on and took on the council to prove that
there was negligence there and to prove that the officials
knew the soil was contaminated and that there had been

(01:30):
a cover up. Jodi Whittaker stars in this, and she's
just fantastic. She plays one of the mothers who leads
this campaign, Robert Carlyle's and this as well Amy lou
Wood just such a really strong British cast and the
storytelling is really compelling. It's quite a complex story, but
they've told it in a very heartfelt, relatable way, one
that captures you right from the very opening scene. Really

(01:53):
strong performances in this, and such a shocking story, you
know you kind of can't look away from it, but
pet your tissues handy because it is quite emotional as well.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Okay, cool, Yeah, sounds amazing. So that's Toxic Town. It's
on Netflix. Also on Flix tell Us about the Mission.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
This is a new Australian true crime documentary series and
it's one of those crimes that just makes for the
perfect true crime documentary. It's bizarre when you first look
at it, and then it just gets weirder and weirder
the more you drill down into it. This is about
an art heist that took place in the nineteen eighties
and the Western Australian outback, when two guys turned up
at a Spanish monastery in the middle of nowhere and

(02:32):
stole twenty six artworks valued to be worth millions of dollars.
The thieves were real amateurs. They hired a getaway car
and they chose a gold Ford Falcon.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
Which is not the most inconspicuous car debian when you're
committing a crime. So the police were onto them pretty
quickly and they end up sort of unraveling this very
strange crime, one that raised a lot of questions like
what were all these valuable European masterpieces doing in a
monastery in the Australian bush and who was actually pulling

(03:04):
all the strings behind this crime. So the documentary talks
to the people involved in the case, the detectives who
were investigating it, the journalists who were covering it. There's
so many colorful characters in this it's in a really
intriguing story, and they've told it in a very watchable,
dramatized way. There's lots of twists and turns, but I
think partly because it was a crime done so badly,

(03:27):
that these were such bad criminals, that's what makes it
such a fascinating one.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah. Great, Okay, this sounds really interesting. That's the mission.
So that's also on Netflix. And last, but not least,
streaming on Netflix. You guessed at running point.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
This is a new sports comedy created by Mindy Kayling.
It stars Kate Hudson and Justin Thurreau, and it's a
bit like a cross between Ted Lasso and Succession. Kate
Hudson plays this reformed party girl who is unexpectedly put
in charge of her family's Los Angeles basketball team and

(04:00):
has to suddenly prove herself as this strong and capable
businesswoman and prove all the doubter's role from the team themselves,
to the public, to her brothers who are angling for
the job themselves and really want her to fail. It's
that classic fish out of water situation. Didn't feel entirely
new or original, and it doesn't have that same kind

(04:23):
of charm as Ted Lasso, but I think that's the
vibe they're going for. It is still light and easy
to watch and does get better as it goes on.
It's one of those comedies that you can just kind
of put on, have a lazy weekend on the couch,
put on, relax into, and not have to think too hard.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
About nice, okay cool. That's Running Points, so that's on
Netflix as well. Those shows once Again, Toxic Town, The Mission,
and Running Point. All of those will be up on
the News Talks he'db website.

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