Tara Ward: All Her Fault, The Borderline, One Shot with Ed Sheeran

All Her Fault 

Every parent's worst nightmare comes true for Marissa Irvine when her young son goes missing. In the race against time to find Milo, Marissa's family starts to implode and murderous secrets are revealed (TVNZ+).  

  

The Borderline  

A border town cop uncovers an illegal drug trade tied to his childhood friend and a ruthless British crime syndicate operating in the scenic 1000 Islands region between Canada and the U.S. Stars Minnie Driver & Stephen Amell (ThreeNow). 

  

One Shot with Ed Sheeran 

One singer. One city. One shot. Ed Sheeran rocks the streets of New York with his greatest hits in this groundbreaking, real-time music experience (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 ATB screen time time.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Tara Ward joins us this time every week with her
three recommendations to shows to watch or stream at home.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
You go to Tara Whatever.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Let's begin with a show on TVNZ Plus starring Succession.
Sarah Snook tell us about All Her Fault.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, this is a new American thriller that I've heard
a lot of people talking about recently. This is All
Her Fault. It starts, as you say, Sarah Snook from
Succession and Dakota Fannings. So it has a really great
cast and it's about the disappearance of a young boy.
Sarah Snook plays a mother, Marissa, who goes to pick
up her son from a playdate with a school friend,
and she has a text from the friend's mother confirming

(00:53):
their address in the playdate. But when she arrives to
pick them up, it's the wrong house and the wrong address,
and the friend who her son was supposed to be
playing with as on a playdate with another classmate. So
the question is who is behind this fake place and
where is Marissa's son? Now? Now I watch this with
a very tight knot in my stomach because it's playing

(01:13):
on every parent's worst nightmare, so it's not an easy,
breezy kind of show to watch. And it has the
exact setup as a show I talked about a few
months ago on Disney Plus called The Stolen Girl. So
if the plot sounds familiar, that's why. But they are
quite different shows. This is more intriguing. It has more
deliberate twists and turns to keep you guessing about who
in Marissa's circle of trust is responsible for taking her son,

(01:36):
because it has to be someone who's close to home,
which means everyone she knows, and this show is lying
about something, So it's a really twisty thriller. It does
have its over the top melodramatic moments, but Sarah Snuk
and Dakota Fanning, who play the mums of the boys,
give such great performances and they sort of keep the
whole thing together and ground it nice.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Okay, cool, This sounds great. So All Her Fault is
on TVNZ Plus on three now The Borderline.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, this is a gritty, slow bird kind of police
crime drama about an investigation into illegal drug smuggling are
going on across the border. Between Canada and the United States,
and it follows a detective who discovers that his childhood
best friend is involved in a case of missing drugs
and the two of them have the secret from their

(02:24):
past that will always link them together, and so the
detective is determined to protect his friend and it becomes
compromised by getting tangled up with the local crime syndicate
who are also trying to get their hands on the drugs.
And that syndicate is led by this imposing matriarch who's
played by Mini Driver. Now, I love that this series

(02:45):
has a beautiful setting. It's filmed on a river that
follows the border between Canada and the US in Ontario,
and there's over one thousand little islands in the river,
so it's a really evocative setting for a crime drama.
You know, it's a pretty standard crime mystery with your
compromise detective and your shady characters. But you know, we
don't get many Canadian dramas here, and with this setting

(03:06):
and Mini Driver starring in this as well as a
bit of a villain, this is definitely worth checking out.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Great okay, And then finally for us this morning, the
very literally named one shot with Ed Sheeran.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah, this is a new twist on the music documentary genre.
This is a one hour music documentary of Ed Shearon
walking around New York playing songs on his guitar. But
the thing about the show is that it is one
continuous take and it's directed by Philip Barantini, who also
directed the award winning incredible one shot drama Adolescence, so

(03:41):
a bit of a different vibe. But he is repeating
that one shot, never cut away, single approach here. And
it starts with the camera entering a theater where Ed
Shearon is doing a sound check for a concert that night,
and then he walks out onto the street and plays
a song for the next hour. And I came to
this thinking, great, we'll see lots of spontaneous, unpredictable New

(04:02):
York moments as he wanders around strumming his guitar. But
this is a very well organized spontaneity. It is tightly choreographed,
and I guess it has to be, you know. He
sings at a proposal, he sings at a birthday party.
He gets on a tourist bus that just happens to
be waiting there with seats saved for him. You know
that kind of thing. But you know Ed is having
the time of his life. He said that this is

(04:23):
the best thing he's been evolved with in his career
in terms of the scale of it. New York looks great.
It's filmed in the summer, it's filled with sunshine and
hazy light, and technically is a really impressive watch as well.
It's a bit of fun the Happy TV and it's
an ead sharing concert with a twist. So if you
are an Ed Shairing fan, you will absolutely love this great.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Okay cool. So that's one shot with ed Share and
that's on Netflix. The Boardline is the Canadian drama that's
on three now, and All Her Fault is on TVNZ plus.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
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