Tara Ward: Poker Face, Suspect, Long Way Home

Poker Face 

Charlie Cale, a casino employee, has an exceptional ability to detect lies. She drives around the country and begins to solve cases of random individuals she meets on the road (TVNZ+). 

 

Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes 

In London, July 2005, police hunt a rogue terrorist cell. An extraordinary series of events during a surveillance operation leads to the misidentification of an innocent young Brazilian as a suspect, resulting in his fatal shooting. As his relatives battle misinformation, they find support from an unlikely source, and the Met is plunged into crisis, forced to confront hard-truths about the shooting (Disney+). 

 

Long Way Home   

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman get on their refurbished bike and travel from Ewan's home in Scotland to Charley's home in England; they take a two-month-long route, passing through the Arctic Circle and continental Europe (Apple TV+). 

 

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Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Screen Time Time. Taraward is here with her three picks
for this week.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yil does Tara Good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Okay, let's begin with the show on TVNZ plus tell
us about poke Face.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, poker Face is back for a second season, and
this is a really fun, quirky crime thriller series. It
stars Natasha Leon. She plays an amateur sleuth called Charlie Kale,
and Charlie is not your typical TV detective. She works
in a casino in Las Vegas, and she has this
unusual ability and that she can always tell when someone

(00:44):
is lying. And in season one, her best friend is
murdered and Charlie uses her special light detection skills to
work out who the murderer was. But when her own
life becomes in danger, she has to go on the run.
And so every episode of poker Face as its own
self contained murder mystery with different characters. It's one of
those case of the Week shows. And Charlie is continually

(01:06):
on the run across America trying to escape these crime bosses,
and she keeps stumbling over these very strange crimes that
only she can help to solve and so it's having
fun with that traditional crime thriller setup. It's got this
great retro seventies eighties feel to it. It's funny, it's stylish,
and because each episode has different characters, it means the

(01:28):
show can tap into this amazing list of guest stars
everyone in season two, from Melanie Lynsky to Cynthia Arrivo
to Steve Bruscemi. And I really like it because it's
a crime drama that doesn't take itself too seriously and
it's just something light and easy to put on and
just be entertained by.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Great Okay, that's poker Face Steven z Plus on Disney
Plus Suspect.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, this is a new four part British drama that's
just come to Disney Plus. It stars Russell Tovey and
Emily Mortimer and it's retelling the events around the death
of Jean Charles Minionziz in London back in July two
thousand and five. And John Charles was from Brazil. He
was working as an electrician in London when he was
mistaken by police as a terrorist and he was completely innocent,

(02:12):
but he was shot by police as he boarded the
Tube on his way to work, and this drama looks
at the events before and after the shooting, and it's
almost a drama of two different parts. The first half
covers the July terrorist attacks in London, the bombings on
the Tube, and the events that led up to the shooting,
and it really builds up that atmosphere of fear and
panic and chaos. And the last two episodes are about

(02:34):
the aftermath of the shooting and the police response, the
sort of the inquiries into the mistakes they made and
the misinformation, and it really holds the police accountable for
what they did. And so that half the show felt
quite different and a lot more focused. And I think
this is covering a lot of ground to give the
whole picture. So it's not perfect. It's not always an
easy watch, but it is very compelling. I watched all

(02:56):
four episodes in one sitting yesterday. It's well acted and
it's one of those dramas that will shock you and
make you mad and sad all at once.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Oh nice, Colin. That's Suspect. That's on Knee plus on
Apple TV, plus another season of a show I love,
long Way Home.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, a new travel show with some Old Friends. This
is the latest travel documentary series from Scottish actor Ewan
McGregor and his best friend Charlie Boorman, who over the
past twenty years they've made several TV shows about riding
motorbikes around the world together. It started with long Way
Round in two thousand and four, which was them riding
from London to New York. There was long Way Down

(03:33):
which was going through Africa, and then most recently long
Way Up through South America. And this week we got
long Way Home, which is Ewan and Charlie jumping on
a couple of vintage motorbikes and riding through Europe. They
start in Scotland, are going right up through Scandinavia up
to the Arctic Circle and then back down through Europe.
It's about ten thousand miles all up, and this is

(03:54):
just a very mellow, soothing trip with two best mates
who are living their best lives on these old bikes.
They're a lot older and wiser than the first time
they did this, which gives them a different perspective on things.
And it's almost like a slow TV show. There's two episodes.
It's not in any hurry, and because it's an Apple Show.
You know, you've got these beautiful aerial shots of them

(04:17):
riding through Europe. It's just a gorgeous show to watch
and one just to kind of relax into. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Nice, really looking forward to that, Thanks Tara. That's Long
Way Home. It's on Apple TV plus, Suspects on Disney
Plus and on TV and Z plus poker Face. Everything's
a plus, isn't it. My goodness? All those shows will
be on the News Talks 'DB website as well. If
you want to watch along at home for

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