Tara Ward: I Fought the Law, Wayward, House of Guinness

I Fought the Law 

Determined to overturn double jeopardy, Ann takes her fight to the Home Secretary and the House of Lords. The law is eventually repealed, and Julie's killer is finally convicted of murder and given a life sentence at the retrial (TVNZ1 and TVNZ+, from Sunday). 

  

Wayward  

A small-town cop suspects that the local school for troubled teens and its dangerously charismatic founder may not be all it seems (Netflix). 

  

House of Guinness  

In 1868, the Guinness family patriarch is dead in Dublin; his four children, each with dark secrets to hide, hold the brewery's fate in their hands (Netflix). 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to this Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talk Z'B, but his.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Screen time time. Tara Reward joins us at this time
every week with her three top picks for shows to
watch or stream at home. She's with us this morning.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Hey Tara Jerda, good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Let's begin with a show on TV and Z one
and TV and Z Plus from tomorrow, tell us about
I Fought the Law.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah. This is a new British drama and it's one
of those shows that the British do so well. It's
a true story of the underdog taking on the system
and eventually winning the Stars Sheridan Smith and she plays
a woman called Ann Ing. Anne was a nurse and
a mother who took on the British legal system after
her twenty two year old daughter was murdered in nineteen

(00:54):
eighty nine, and she campaigned to overturn the double jeopardy rule,
which had existed for eight hundred years and it meant
that people couldn't be tried twice in court for the
same offense. So Anne's campaign and the success of her
campaign meant that the man who killed her daughter, who
was acquitted because of miss trials could be tried again
and found guilty and it took years, but justice was

(01:16):
done because Anne never gave up. And so it's a
really compelling, quite heartbreaking story. And Sheridan Smith has built
her career on portraying real life people who deal with
huge adversity. She was made for this role and she's
so good here as a grieving but very stubborn mother.
The series is based on a book that Anne wrote.

(01:37):
She was involved with the making of the show and
so it's quite true to her experience. And it's one
of those stories that will shock you and surprise you
and make you really mad. But at its heart, it's
about a human tragedy and it's about how far one
mother will go to justice. So yeah, you will need
the tissues for.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
This one, right, Okay, sounds really compelling. So that's I thought.
The Lord that's on tvn Z one and TVNZ plus
streaming on Netflix tell Us about Wayward.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yes is intriguing psychological thriller that's just started on Netflix
that's created by comedian May Martin and stars May Martin
and Tony Collette. And I mean, when I see Tony
Collette's name attached to something, you know, that it's going
to be good. This is set in two thousand and
three in a small town in Vermont where there is
a school for troubled teens called Toolpine's Academy, and the

(02:26):
teenagers there have been sent there by their desperate parents
and the school promises to sort their issues out and
turn them into valued members of society. And May Martin
plays a police officer who is new to town. They
bump into one of the students who is trying to
escape the academy and immediately become suspicious of what is
actually going on at the school behind closed doors. Tony

(02:49):
Collette is so great in this. She plays the leader
of the school. She's sort of like a cult leader figure.
She has this strange influence in town. She knows everybody.
There's a bit of a sinister edge to her, and
I think the show is going to get darker and
more creepier as it goes on. There's a bit of
a Twin Peaks vibe to this, which I really like,
you know, a bit of uneasy energy, quirky small town.

(03:10):
Nothing is as it seems. This is a show that's
going to keep surprising you and taking you in different directions.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Nice so that's streaming on Netflix. It's Wayward and your
third pick for us this week is also on Netflix.
House of Guinness.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, I've been waiting for this one for a while.
This is a historical drama about the Guinness family of
Dublin and it's created by Stephen Knight, who makes a
lot of historical dramas like Pecky Blinders and A Thousand Blows.
So if you like Pecky Blinders, I think you all
like this as well. It's got that same kind of
big energy, big style to it. It's got a soundtrack,
but it's quite gritty and dramatic and it's set in

(03:46):
the eighteen sixties and it's about the wealthy Guinness family,
who of course created the world famous beer. The patriarch,
Benjamin has just died and his four children are left
to fight over who will succeed him. None of them
are particularly capable, which means that a guy called Sean
Rafferty who's played by the always excellent James Norton. He
runs the g Factory. He sees the opportunity to step

(04:08):
up and take control. So there's a bit of a
succession feel to this. It's about power and money, and
dysfunctional family and how people can be manipulated and controlled,
and it plays out against this background of Irish political
and religious tension, and the show is inspired by real
events and real people. But I think I think Stephen

(04:30):
Night has used quite a bit of creative license here.
So I think if you go into this watching it
just as entertainment rather than a realistick portrayal of Irish history,
I think you'll enjoy it a lot.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah. Okay, cool. So that's House of Guinness. That's on Netflix.
It sounds, like I was saying earlier, kind of like
a like a beer brewing succession.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, yeah, you've got.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, okay, very good, thanks Tara. So
that's House of Guinness. It's on Netflix. Wayward is on
Netflix as well. That was Tara's second pick, and I
thought the Lawa is the one with Sharon and Smith.
It's on TV and Z one and TV and Z
Plus from tomorrow.

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