Tara Ward: Wednesday, Outlander: Blood of My Blood, Stolen: Heist of the Century

Wednesday 

Tim Burton’s quirky Addams Family drama is back for a second season.  

Nevermore is back in session as Wednesday tangles with a new principal, a devious campus stalker and a waning grip on her psychic powers (Netflix). 

 

Outlander: Blood of My Blood  

A romantic saga that unfolds across time. From the battlefields of World War I to the rugged Highlands of 18th century Scotland, two fated couples must defy the forces that seek to tear them apart, intersecting in surprising and unforeseen ways (Neon). 

 

Stolen: Heist of the Century 

In 2003, a gang of thieves rob the impenetrable Diamond Center, Antwerp; who was behind one of the world's biggest heists and how did they pull it off? (Netflix) 

 

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Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's time to get your screen time picks for the weekend.
Tara Awards our screen time expert. She's here with her
three shows to recommend this weekday. Tara, good morning. Let's
begin with a show streaming on Netflix. Tell us about Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, this is a new season of Wednesday, which is
Netflix's very entertaining remake of the Adams Family story, directed
and produced by Tim Burton. And as soon as I
say Tim Burton, you understand the vibe. This is a
supernatural fantasy series with a very dark sense of humor
to it. It stars Geno Otaga and Altager and ketine
Zita Jones, and it's told from the perspective of the

(00:49):
Adams family daughter Wednesday, who is sent to boarding school
and has to use her special powers to solve a
murder mystery. And it's one of those shows that it
brings all the things you remember from the original Adams
Family sitcom, the same characters, the same quirks, but it's
still fresh and modern. There's lots of special effects here.

(01:09):
It's set in a contemporary world, and I think that's
why it's been such a hit for Netflix. It's a
great max of the old and the new, and that
probably pulls in lots of generations to it as well.
Tim Burton adds his gothic, creepy ascetic to it, which
elevates it as well. But this is a show that's
having fun. It's sharp and dark and funny. It's a
fresh twist on a murder mystery series. And with Tim

(01:31):
Burton behind it, you know it's going to be quirky
and a good time.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah. Superb Okay, that's Wednesday. That's on Netflix. On Neon
tell us about Outlander.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, this is Outlander Blood of My Blood, which is
a new historical drama and it's a prequel to the
series Outlander. Outlander is a very popular show. It's I
think it's eighth season is coming out next year and
it's based on a best selling book by Diana Gabaldon.
It's about a nurse called Clear who visits Scotland, accidentally
travels back in time to the eighteenth century and falls

(02:01):
in love with a guy called Jamie Well. This new series,
Blood of My Blood is made by the same tea
and it tells the story of Jamie and Clear's parents.
So it's set a generation before Outlander takes place, but
it's very similar to Outland itself. It's still set in Scotland,
still has two different timelines, one in the seventeen hundreds
and one in the nineteen hundreds, and there's two love
stories at play here, so it's not really doing anything different.

(02:24):
It's a bit of time traveling, a bit of romance,
a bit of historical drama. But it will feel very
familiar for Outlander fans. It is supposed to be a
standalone show, so you could start watching this if you
haven't seen Outlander before. It does throw a lot at
you in the first episode, just because it's setting up
so many characters and storylines. So I think this is
one particularly for Outlander fans. They'll be very excited about this.

(02:48):
It's fun to see those familiar characters pop up in
a younger form and it keeps a beloved story alive
in a slightly different way.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah. Cool, Okay, that's Outlander. Blood of My Blood And
also on Netflix Stolen Heist of the Century.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah. One thing you can rely on Netflix for is
a really strange and unusual and very bingeable true crime
documentary they might go to on a lazy Sunday afternoon,
and this Netflix latest true crime documentary is no exception.
This is Stolen heightst of the Century, and it's about
a diamond heist that took place in two thousand and
three in the Diamond district of Antwerp. The thieves broke

(03:28):
into a vault and took millions of dollars in diamonds,
but pulled it off without setting off any alarms or
raising any suspicion. It seemed like the most impossible of crimes,
and so this documentary talks to a lot of people
who were involved, from the detectives trying to solve the case,
to one of the thieves themselves who was the mastermind
behind it all. And there's a bit of you know,

(03:48):
you're not sure who to believe, can you trust everything
that's been said here? And just so many twists and turns.
It's a very slick watch, drops you straight into the
story straight away, and it's not trying to do anything
too fancy. The story itself is so weird and wonderful
that that's enough to kind of carry the show along. So, yeah,
one of those stranger than fiction tales. Lots of twists

(04:08):
and turns, lots of unusual characters and told in a
really entertaining way.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Fantastic, Okay, cool, that's stolen Heist of the Century. That's
on Netflix Wednesday. Tim Burton's Adams Family drama is also
on Netflix, and Outlander Blood of My Blood. That one
is on Neon. All of the shows will be up
on the news Talks he'd be website.

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