Tara Ward: Untamed, Sneaky Pete, Game On

Untamed  

In the vast expanse of Yosemite National Park, a woman's death draws a federal agent into lawless terrain, where nature obeys no rules but its own (Netflix). 

 

Sneaky Pete 

Marius, a fraudster, finds himself followed by a dangerous criminal whom he once robbed. Soon, he disguises himself as Pete, his cellmate from the past, for safety (Netflix). 

 

Game On  

NZ Netball legends return for a high-stakes tournament, battling international stars to prove they've still got it. But they won't do it alone - six promising young athletes will join them. Can the past & future of netball unite? (ThreeNow) 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
from Newstalk ZEDB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Twenty four minutes past ten on News Talks EDB, which
means it's brought up screen time time. Tara Award joins
us at this time every Saturday morning with her three
picks for shows to watch your stream at Homemade. Tara,
Good morning. Okay, let's begin this morning with a show
streaming on Netflix starring Eric Banner and our very own
Sam Neil. Tell us about Untamed.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yeah, this is a new murder mystery series with a
great cast and quite an unusual and quite beautiful location.
As you say. It stars Eric Banner and Sam Neil,
and it's about a murder that takes place in the
Yosemite National Park in California. And Eric Banner plays a
special agent, Kyle Turner. He's basically a park ranger but
with police powers, and he's responsible for solving the mystery

(00:56):
of a body that falls from our Capitan Mountain in
the park. Samuel plays his boss. They are longtime friends,
but Kyle is your typical grumpy but brilliant detective with
an ex wife and a drinking problem. And so the
setup of the show is quite familiar and similar to
a lot of other TV murder mysteries. But Eric Bannett

(01:16):
is so good in this I'll watch anything that Sam
nil is in. And the setting of the National Park
is so beautiful and remote, and the scale of the
landscape and the photography and this is really impressive. So
it's those things that make this show stand out and
makes it worth watching. And it's all about that idea
that the rangers can only really know a small piece
of this huge national park and there's so much wilderness

(01:39):
and potential for danger out there that they can't control.
So you know, it is a little bit formulaic at times,
but still a very watchable, really enjoyable series.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Cool Okay, that's Untamed. It's on Netflix. Also on Netflix,
Sneaky Pete, Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Sneaky Pete. This isn't a new show. It came out
in twenty seventeen, but it's just come on to Netflix
for the first time in the last week and all
three seasons are there now. This is a great drama
that stars Giovanni Rabisi and he plays Marius. Marius is
a con man who gets out of prison but can't
return to his old life because his enemies are still
after him, so he assumes the identity of his prison

(02:16):
cellmate Pete, and he goes to stay with Pete's long
lost family, who haven't seen Pete for decades. They happily
welcome Pete back into the fold and welcome him back
into the family. But Pete's family has their own secrets
and their own issues. That means Marius could be in
as much danger with Pete's family as in his old life,

(02:37):
and the show is about Marius sort of moving between
those two lives and those two different worlds, trying to
stay in hiding while also trying not to blow his
cover with Pete's family. And what I liked about this was,
even though that plot sounds kind of far fetched, the
show itself is very straightforward and entertaining. It's not trying
to do anything too clever. It's about family and relationships

(02:58):
and the lives that we all tell. Marius is a
likable rogue. You're always on his side, and it's a
lot of fun. You just have to suspend belief for
a bit and just kind of go along for the.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Right nice cool That's Sneaky Pete. That's on Netflix as well,
and I'm looking forward to this one on three. Now
tell us about Game On, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
I love this one. You might remember a TV series
from a couple of years ago called Match Fit, Yeah,
a New Zealand sports docu series that had a former
rugby and league players come back and get fit and
play in a tournament. Well, Game On is the netball
version of that. Basically, it takes several former Silver Ferns
like Irene Van Dyke, Aidan Wilson, Casey krpor Tima Patter

(03:37):
Bailey and puts them back on the court to train
and play in a netball tournament against other former internationals.
And some of these women haven't played netball for years
and so they are as competitive as ever and as
passionate for the sport as ever, but they're on their
forties and fifties now and they've got a bit of
work to do. They're also teaming up with some a

(03:58):
group of promising young teenage netballers and mentoring them through
the show. So there's a really lovely connection there to
the next generation of players coming through. And I just
watched this with a big smile on my face. They
look back at what it took for them to play
top level sport while also having babies and jobs and families.
It's a sort of a celebration of the friendships that

(04:20):
they've made along the way, and now they're all back
together again facing this new challenge. It's really inspiring and
a very heart woman watching this sounds great.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
So I love match Fit. I just thought, mat sure,
it was such a good show, And do you reckon
this compares quite favorably.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yes, definitely.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
And I think it's that vulnerability that they're putting themselves
back out there, you know, and they talk about how
their mind wants them to get up in the air
and just sit that ball, but their body is not
quite as willing anymore. And you know, there's a sort
of a braveness to that about putting them back out
into the public eye and putting their bodies on the
line again.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
I love it. Okay, cool, that sounds like a bit
of me. Game On is on three now, Sneaky Pete
and Untamed, Untames, the one with Eric Banner and Sam Neil.
Both of those are on Netflix. Will have all of
the details for those three shows on the News talks
IB website. Thank you so much, Taoa.

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