July 27, 2025 • 14 mins
School holidays are over and for some, that means the long journey home from a European summer along with all the brutal effects of jet lag that science says is genuinely worse when flying back to Australia.
Plus, Netflix has just released its mid-year most-watched list, and we're unpacking the data with our entertainment editor, including why Harry and Meghan's multi-million dollar deal won't be renewed.
And in headlines today Israel says it will halt military operations each day for 10 hours in parts of Gaza and allow new aid corridors, where images of hungry Palestinians have alarmed the world; Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has described his heartbreak at seeing starving people in Gaza saying Israel has "quite clearly" breached international law by limiting food deliveries to starving civilians; A sequel to the 2002 iconic movie Bend It Like Beckham which starred Keira Knightley, Parminder Nagra and Johnathan Rhys-Meyers, is in the works; The Aussie women’s 4x100m freestyle relay team has pulled off a shock victory over the US at the world championships in Singapore
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listening to a Muma Mea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey, I'm Taylor Strano. This is Mumma MIA's twice daily
news podcast The Quickie School Holidays are over and for
some that means a long journey home from a European
summer has begun, along with all the lingering effects of
jet lag.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
But is it really.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Worse coming back to Australia and more importantly, how do
you beat it? Plus, Netflix has just released its mid
year most watch list. We'll unpack the data with Mumma
MEA's entertainment editor before we get to all of that.
He is Claire Murphy with the latest from the Quickie
newsroom for Monday, July twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Thanks Taylor. Israel says it will hold military operations each
day for ten hours in parts of Gaza and allow
new aid corridors. Military activity will stop from ten am
to eight pm local time until further notice. In Almwasi,
a designated humanitarian area that stretches along the coast, The
military says designated secure roots for convoys delivering food and
(01:18):
medicine will also be in place between six am and
eleven pm from Sunday. Health officials say at least seventeen
people were killed and fifty wounded by Israeli fire while
waiting for aid trucks on Sunday. A spokesperson for Israel's
military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Gazan Health Ministry reported six new debts in the
past twenty four hours due to malnutrition, bringing the total
(01:41):
number of deaths from hunger to one hundred and thirty three,
including eighty seven children. The Egyptian Red Crescent says it's
sending more than one hundred trucks carrying twelve hundred metric
tons of food aid to southern Gaza through the Coremshalom
crossing ours. Earlier, Israel began aid air drops in what
it says as an effort to ease the humanitarian conditions
in the enclave. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Anthony Albernizi has described
(02:05):
his heartbreak at seeing starving people in the region, saying
Israel has quite clearly breached international law by limiting food
deliveries to starving civilians. The Prime Minister acknowledged that increased
air drops of aid by Israel was a start, but
said seeing the images of desperate families broke his heart,
saying a one year old boy is not a Hamas
fighter and the civilian casualties and debts in Gaza is
(02:27):
completely unacceptable. It's completely indefensible. Medicine Sons Frontier's Australia executive
director Jennifer Tini has urged Australians horrified by the scenes
in Gaza to get in touch with their MPs and
let their feelings be heard. Thousands of protesters turned out
in Sydney on Sunday to highlight the threat of mass starvation,
facing two million Gazans calling for the Australian government to
(02:49):
sanction Israel. A sequel to the two thousand and two
iconic movie Bendit Like Beckham is in the works. The film,
which starred Kira Knightley Palminda Nagra and Jonathan rhes Meyers,
is widely credited with inspiring a generation of women to
play soccer. Director Garinda Chada thinks now as the perfect
moment to launch a sequel, saying a lot has changed
(03:09):
since the original movie, but she thinks people still don't
think women should play football. She said there are people
who still don't take it seriously. Although the Lionesses are
riding high. The England women's soccer team has enjoyed significant
success in recent years and is currently preparing to take
on Spain in the final of Euro twenty twenty five.
The Aussie women's four by one hundred meter freestyle relay
(03:30):
team has pulled off a shock victory over the US
at the World Championships in Singapore. Moll O'Callahan, Meg Harris
and teenagers Miller Jansen and Olivia Wush entered Sunday Night's
final in Singapore with a nothing to lose approach against
hot favorites the US. The tactic worked with once reeling
an American Tory Husk in the final fifty meters to
produce a huge upset victory and a first gold medal
(03:53):
for Australia. At the twenty twenty five World Championships, the
Australian men were just as impressive, with the quartead of
Kyl Chalmers, Flint Southam Kaye Taylor and Maximilian Giuliani posting
a World Championship record time of three eight point ninety
seven to defeat Italy and the un.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Thanks Claire next, the long descent back home and why
it hits harder coming to Australia. If you've just landed
from a European summer, maybe Berlin, Barcelona or Rome. After
squeezing every last drop out of your trip, you might
now be staring down the barrel of a week where
(04:32):
two am feels like midday and your body has no
idea what's happening. There's a reason your jet lag is
always worse coming back to Australia, and science backs it up.
Researchers say flying east, like say, back to Australia, forces
your body to lose hours jumping ahead in time. This
(04:53):
goes against your natural circadian rhythms, which prefer to stretch
your day out, not shorten it. So when you're coming back,
your body is basically being forced to fall asleep earlier
than it wants to make it much harder to readjust
than when you flew the other way. For many, that
means day of waking up wide eyed far too early,
struggling to stay asleep, and an overwhelming sense of fatigue,
(05:15):
brain fog, even mood swings as your internal clock slowly
tries to catch up. So how can you speed up
the process and actually beat your jet lag. Start shifting
your schedule a few days before coming home, go to
bed and wake up closer to Aussie time. But let's
be real, who's going to bed at a respectable time
when you're on holiday or that gelato will not eat
(05:37):
itself after all, So maybe try these tips instead. Stay
hydrated in the air. Dehydration make symptoms worse. Get sunlight
as soon as you land. It's the number one way
to reset your body clock if you can avoid long
naps and hold out for bedtime in your new time zone,
even if it feels brutal. And of course, move your
(05:59):
body with gentle exercise and eat at local meal times,
which helps anchor your circadian rhythm. The good news, while
it can take up to a week to fully bounce back,
most people feel normal again after four or five nights
of decent sleep, So hang in there and scroll back
three camera roll to warmer, sunnier, more European times, from
(06:22):
Midia vacations to Midia entertainment reviews. Netflix just dropped its
most watch list for the halfway point of twenty twenty five.
In the first half of twenty twenty five, viewers clocked
up ninety five billion, yes, billion hours of watch time.
Top genres well pretty much everything, from UK and Korean
(06:43):
dramas to true crime, reality and global blockbusters. Here's some
quick highlights. The most watched series for the first half
of the year was Adolescents. The UK produced limited series
pulled in one hundred and forty five million views. We
actually dove deep into that show, including answering the big
questions that Adolescence does ask us, and I'll link it
(07:04):
in the show notes for you'll listen to after this.
Also making the top of the list is South Korean shows.
They had a massive run. Squid Game drew two hundred
and thirty one million views across three seasons, and its
final season became the third most watched program globally in
just four days. We like.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Headlight play three four eliminated.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Outside of TV, movies like this year's biggest action releases,
European thrillers and even festival darlings from Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, Japan,
and India attracted worldwide audiences, showing that global stories are
as popular as ever. Netflix's new move into live WWE
wrestling also paid off, with more than two hundred and
(07:52):
eighty million hours watched for those events alone. Separate to
the list, there's another Netflix story bubbling away. Yes, we
are talking about Harry and Meghan. The Duke and Duchess
of Sussex, who signed that reported one hundred million dollar
Netflix deal back in twenty twenty, are officially up their
partnership with the streamer as their contract ends. Their docuseries
(08:14):
Harry and Meghan still holds Netflix record for the most
watched documentary debut, but it's now time for a new chapter.
Meghan's own lifestyle series with Love Meghan, launched in March
and quickly made the top ten in global rankings, with
over two point six million views and twelve point six
million hours watched in its first week.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I don't think anyone in the world knows that Megan
Markle has eaten Jack in the Box and loves it.
Funny too that you keep saying, Megan Markele, you know
I'm Sussex now.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
She used the show's momentum to launch her lifestyle brand
as Ever, which saw several sellout releases and ongoing Netflix involvement. Now,
despite those hits, the Sussex's Netflix still will not be
renewed to learn more. We are joined by Muma MEA's
entertainment editor, Tina Burke TV. Let's start with the most
watched list was topped by Adolescents and then followed by
(09:04):
both season two and three of Squid Game. What was
your initial reaction to the list.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
My initial reaction to the TV shows was like, well, duh,
of course good news, because Adolescence was a fantastic series.
Obviously from Stephen Graham. The UK audience would have known
what to expect from him, but globally people might not have.
And obviously it blew up. We all saw it, so
I expected to see it as number one, but it's
actually also like a really good show, which doesn't always
happen in these most watch lists. Same with Squid Game,
(09:31):
like renowned major series coming back to finish off, so
of course it was going to be up there. But
I definitely think looking at the list, I was like, oh,
the TV shows are of a much higher caliber than
some of these top movies.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Okay, let's talk about that, because you've explained this to
me and I think that everybody else needs to get
on the same page. Can you impart that wisdom to
the listeners. There's this division amongst what Netflix makes TV
shows like Netflix Originals and then also Netflix Original movies.
Where have they landed in this list and what's the
thing to know about that?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I think what I noticed is say, like a lot
of the top films were crowd pleasers to some extent.
A lot of them had big names, but they were
not necessarily like a highbrow film or like film that's
critically acclaimed, Like that.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Number one film is Back in Action, which is Cameron Diaz,
which is nice to see her back on screens, but
also Jamie Fox too, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And like that was fun, We had a good time,
but it's not the kind of movie you go back
and watch again. It's just kind of like an action comedy.
And elsewhere on that list was like The Life List,
which was a Sophia Carson basically a take on like
PS I Love You Like It was Hallmark style romance movie.
Other big films on there were all quite low on
Rotten Tomatoes when it comes to like the rating from
fans and critics alike, I'm not talking about things that
(10:43):
just critics hated. Fans were also just a bit disappointed
by a lot of those top most watch films, So
it's kind of like with the films. These things come out,
everyone watches them and you just go, Okay, that was
a Friday night. They're not being talked about, they're not
in the zeitgeist. They're not hitting the same way that
the TV shows are. Netflix doesn't really compete in the
film space the way that it does in the TV space.
But even still, there's such like massive scale of production
(11:05):
on these TV shows of how many they're releasing, how
many they're creating. So yeah, there's a few hits, there's adolescents.
You know, Four Seasons has really stood out, nobody wants
this was really big last year. But it's not the
same way that like Apple TV is consistently hitting, or
HBO Max is consistently hitting.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
It's not even a high brow, lowbrow thing like they do.
Just feel like there is more gravity and weight to
those streaming original series. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Absolutely. The thing that I found interesting was that a
high majority of them were not American productions, So there
was a lot from the UK, a lot from South Korea,
a lot from Scandinavia. So it was actually like the
global offerings that were better, in higher quality and more watched.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Okay, so given your explanation than I should not be
surprised that Vince Vaughn's non As was number thirteen of
the most watched films on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
It's like they're just mass producing these easy, digestible things
to watch, and then something amazing you just see further
down in the list and you're like, oh, that didn't
make the cut. Oh okay. All the people just want
to see Susan Saranda and Vince Vaughn like make a pasta,
and I get.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
That sometimes, given the current climate of the world, that
is all you need to watch. Would there any surprises
on this list be were there things that you were like, Oh,
I'm really glad to see that so high up in
the list, or that should have been higher up in
the list.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I think North of North was a really great production
this year that I wish more people watched. That was
not as high as I would have liked. Four Seasons
was about where I expected to be, but it was
really great. Forever, which was like an adaptation of Judy
Bloom that was really fantastic. Everyone here loved it. Would
have loved to see that as one of the top
top shows. Untamed Eric Banner's new show has only just dropped,
so there was no way it was going to hit
(12:35):
in there. But I would love to see that hitting
those marks in the second half of the year.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And in terms of this kind of a list being
a good indicator of awards season that's coming up, people
from the moment that Adolescent drop had picked that as
that's gonna win all the awards this season. Is there
anything else in this list that maybe will get a
look in Do you think the four seasons?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Maybe like a Common Domingo noment the Golden Globes next year? Possibly,
But there's not a lot of these shows that you
see and you go, yeah, the caliber of everything was amazing.
There's a lot of misses in this top list. Hopefully
some nominations for Squid Game. That would be nice, I
think obviously, kind of in the same way that we
saw Baby Reindeer really take off on Netflix last year
and then win really big this year at all of
the Globes everything. We'd like to see the same for Adolescents, obviously,
(13:17):
because that was just such a big hitter and the
cast were fantastic and even the production too, so that
would be great. Same with Squid Game. Really good performances
in there, even if some people didn't think the season
held up as well.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Let's just turn focus to a bit of a different
Netflix story. I want to talk about Harry and Meghan.
There have been all of these headlines that they've been
dumped by Netflix, they've scrapped their deal. That's actually not
quite the case. So Netflix had this big, massive deal
with them, it's just not been renewed. The contract has ended. However,
we are still actually gonna see Meghan on our screens
(13:49):
again pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yes, so everyone was kind of like they've been fired,
and it's like no, actually, the contract just won't be renewed.
It was expiring in September anyway, rumored to be like
US one hundred million. This contract for two seasons of
With Love Megan, so pretty solid numbers there, and they
filmed both seasons of With Love Megan back to back,
so when the first one ended, they announced the second
one would be coming. And Megan is actually a producer
(14:13):
as well, so she kind of controls how this next
season will look. Even though she's had the contract expire,
she still gets to be in charge of how this
is gonna look and feel. So she's actually made out
pretty well here because they've gotten a lot of money
for her to stand in a kitchen and make some
nice jams and hang out with Mindy Kayling like that's
a nice Friday. And then they're still allegedly in conversations
with Netflix about maybe something else in the future. So
(14:34):
it's not quite as dramatic as everyone makes it seem,
but people were surprised that her show didn't rate as
highly as we expected.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Thanks for taking some time to feed your mind with
us today. The Quickie is produced by me Table Strano
and Claire Murphy, with audio production by Lou Hill.
You're listening to a Muma Mea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey, I'm Taylor Strano. This is Mumma MIA's twice daily
news podcast The Quickie School Holidays are over and for
some that means a long journey home from a European
summer has begun, along with all the lingering effects of
jet lag.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
But is it really.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Worse coming back to Australia and more importantly, how do
you beat it? Plus, Netflix has just released its mid
year most watch list. We'll unpack the data with Mumma
MEA's entertainment editor before we get to all of that.
He is Claire Murphy with the latest from the Quickie
newsroom for Monday, July twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Thanks Taylor. Israel says it will hold military operations each
day for ten hours in parts of Gaza and allow
new aid corridors. Military activity will stop from ten am
to eight pm local time until further notice. In Almwasi,
a designated humanitarian area that stretches along the coast, The
military says designated secure roots for convoys delivering food and
(01:18):
medicine will also be in place between six am and
eleven pm from Sunday. Health officials say at least seventeen
people were killed and fifty wounded by Israeli fire while
waiting for aid trucks on Sunday. A spokesperson for Israel's
military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Gazan Health Ministry reported six new debts in the
past twenty four hours due to malnutrition, bringing the total
(01:41):
number of deaths from hunger to one hundred and thirty three,
including eighty seven children. The Egyptian Red Crescent says it's
sending more than one hundred trucks carrying twelve hundred metric
tons of food aid to southern Gaza through the Coremshalom
crossing ours. Earlier, Israel began aid air drops in what
it says as an effort to ease the humanitarian conditions
in the enclave. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Anthony Albernizi has described
(02:05):
his heartbreak at seeing starving people in the region, saying
Israel has quite clearly breached international law by limiting food
deliveries to starving civilians. The Prime Minister acknowledged that increased
air drops of aid by Israel was a start, but
said seeing the images of desperate families broke his heart,
saying a one year old boy is not a Hamas
fighter and the civilian casualties and debts in Gaza is
(02:27):
completely unacceptable. It's completely indefensible. Medicine Sons Frontier's Australia executive
director Jennifer Tini has urged Australians horrified by the scenes
in Gaza to get in touch with their MPs and
let their feelings be heard. Thousands of protesters turned out
in Sydney on Sunday to highlight the threat of mass starvation,
facing two million Gazans calling for the Australian government to
(02:49):
sanction Israel. A sequel to the two thousand and two
iconic movie Bendit Like Beckham is in the works. The film,
which starred Kira Knightley Palminda Nagra and Jonathan rhes Meyers,
is widely credited with inspiring a generation of women to
play soccer. Director Garinda Chada thinks now as the perfect
moment to launch a sequel, saying a lot has changed
(03:09):
since the original movie, but she thinks people still don't
think women should play football. She said there are people
who still don't take it seriously. Although the Lionesses are
riding high. The England women's soccer team has enjoyed significant
success in recent years and is currently preparing to take
on Spain in the final of Euro twenty twenty five.
The Aussie women's four by one hundred meter freestyle relay
(03:30):
team has pulled off a shock victory over the US
at the World Championships in Singapore. Moll O'Callahan, Meg Harris
and teenagers Miller Jansen and Olivia Wush entered Sunday Night's
final in Singapore with a nothing to lose approach against
hot favorites the US. The tactic worked with once reeling
an American Tory Husk in the final fifty meters to
produce a huge upset victory and a first gold medal
(03:53):
for Australia. At the twenty twenty five World Championships, the
Australian men were just as impressive, with the quartead of
Kyl Chalmers, Flint Southam Kaye Taylor and Maximilian Giuliani posting
a World Championship record time of three eight point ninety
seven to defeat Italy and the un.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Thanks Claire next, the long descent back home and why
it hits harder coming to Australia. If you've just landed
from a European summer, maybe Berlin, Barcelona or Rome. After
squeezing every last drop out of your trip, you might
now be staring down the barrel of a week where
(04:32):
two am feels like midday and your body has no
idea what's happening. There's a reason your jet lag is
always worse coming back to Australia, and science backs it up.
Researchers say flying east, like say, back to Australia, forces
your body to lose hours jumping ahead in time. This
(04:53):
goes against your natural circadian rhythms, which prefer to stretch
your day out, not shorten it. So when you're coming back,
your body is basically being forced to fall asleep earlier
than it wants to make it much harder to readjust
than when you flew the other way. For many, that
means day of waking up wide eyed far too early,
struggling to stay asleep, and an overwhelming sense of fatigue,
(05:15):
brain fog, even mood swings as your internal clock slowly
tries to catch up. So how can you speed up
the process and actually beat your jet lag. Start shifting
your schedule a few days before coming home, go to
bed and wake up closer to Aussie time. But let's
be real, who's going to bed at a respectable time
when you're on holiday or that gelato will not eat
(05:37):
itself after all, So maybe try these tips instead. Stay
hydrated in the air. Dehydration make symptoms worse. Get sunlight
as soon as you land. It's the number one way
to reset your body clock if you can avoid long
naps and hold out for bedtime in your new time zone,
even if it feels brutal. And of course, move your
(05:59):
body with gentle exercise and eat at local meal times,
which helps anchor your circadian rhythm. The good news, while
it can take up to a week to fully bounce back,
most people feel normal again after four or five nights
of decent sleep, So hang in there and scroll back
three camera roll to warmer, sunnier, more European times, from
(06:22):
Midia vacations to Midia entertainment reviews. Netflix just dropped its
most watch list for the halfway point of twenty twenty five.
In the first half of twenty twenty five, viewers clocked
up ninety five billion, yes, billion hours of watch time.
Top genres well pretty much everything, from UK and Korean
(06:43):
dramas to true crime, reality and global blockbusters. Here's some
quick highlights. The most watched series for the first half
of the year was Adolescents. The UK produced limited series
pulled in one hundred and forty five million views. We
actually dove deep into that show, including answering the big
questions that Adolescence does ask us, and I'll link it
(07:04):
in the show notes for you'll listen to after this.
Also making the top of the list is South Korean shows.
They had a massive run. Squid Game drew two hundred
and thirty one million views across three seasons, and its
final season became the third most watched program globally in
just four days. We like.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Headlight play three four eliminated.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Outside of TV, movies like this year's biggest action releases,
European thrillers and even festival darlings from Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, Japan,
and India attracted worldwide audiences, showing that global stories are
as popular as ever. Netflix's new move into live WWE
wrestling also paid off, with more than two hundred and
(07:52):
eighty million hours watched for those events alone. Separate to
the list, there's another Netflix story bubbling away. Yes, we
are talking about Harry and Meghan. The Duke and Duchess
of Sussex, who signed that reported one hundred million dollar
Netflix deal back in twenty twenty, are officially up their
partnership with the streamer as their contract ends. Their docuseries
(08:14):
Harry and Meghan still holds Netflix record for the most
watched documentary debut, but it's now time for a new chapter.
Meghan's own lifestyle series with Love Meghan, launched in March
and quickly made the top ten in global rankings, with
over two point six million views and twelve point six
million hours watched in its first week.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I don't think anyone in the world knows that Megan
Markle has eaten Jack in the Box and loves it.
Funny too that you keep saying, Megan Markele, you know
I'm Sussex now.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
She used the show's momentum to launch her lifestyle brand
as Ever, which saw several sellout releases and ongoing Netflix involvement. Now,
despite those hits, the Sussex's Netflix still will not be
renewed to learn more. We are joined by Muma MEA's
entertainment editor, Tina Burke TV. Let's start with the most
watched list was topped by Adolescents and then followed by
(09:04):
both season two and three of Squid Game. What was
your initial reaction to the list.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
My initial reaction to the TV shows was like, well, duh,
of course good news, because Adolescence was a fantastic series.
Obviously from Stephen Graham. The UK audience would have known
what to expect from him, but globally people might not have.
And obviously it blew up. We all saw it, so
I expected to see it as number one, but it's
actually also like a really good show, which doesn't always
happen in these most watch lists. Same with Squid Game,
(09:31):
like renowned major series coming back to finish off, so
of course it was going to be up there. But
I definitely think looking at the list, I was like, oh,
the TV shows are of a much higher caliber than
some of these top movies.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Okay, let's talk about that, because you've explained this to
me and I think that everybody else needs to get
on the same page. Can you impart that wisdom to
the listeners. There's this division amongst what Netflix makes TV
shows like Netflix Originals and then also Netflix Original movies.
Where have they landed in this list and what's the
thing to know about that?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I think what I noticed is say, like a lot
of the top films were crowd pleasers to some extent.
A lot of them had big names, but they were
not necessarily like a highbrow film or like film that's
critically acclaimed, Like that.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Number one film is Back in Action, which is Cameron Diaz,
which is nice to see her back on screens, but
also Jamie Fox too, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And like that was fun, We had a good time,
but it's not the kind of movie you go back
and watch again. It's just kind of like an action comedy.
And elsewhere on that list was like The Life List,
which was a Sophia Carson basically a take on like
PS I Love You Like It was Hallmark style romance movie.
Other big films on there were all quite low on
Rotten Tomatoes when it comes to like the rating from
fans and critics alike, I'm not talking about things that
(10:43):
just critics hated. Fans were also just a bit disappointed
by a lot of those top most watch films, So
it's kind of like with the films. These things come out,
everyone watches them and you just go, Okay, that was
a Friday night. They're not being talked about, they're not
in the zeitgeist. They're not hitting the same way that
the TV shows are. Netflix doesn't really compete in the
film space the way that it does in the TV space.
But even still, there's such like massive scale of production
(11:05):
on these TV shows of how many they're releasing, how
many they're creating. So yeah, there's a few hits, there's adolescents.
You know, Four Seasons has really stood out, nobody wants
this was really big last year. But it's not the
same way that like Apple TV is consistently hitting, or
HBO Max is consistently hitting.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
It's not even a high brow, lowbrow thing like they do.
Just feel like there is more gravity and weight to
those streaming original series. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Absolutely. The thing that I found interesting was that a
high majority of them were not American productions, So there
was a lot from the UK, a lot from South Korea,
a lot from Scandinavia. So it was actually like the
global offerings that were better, in higher quality and more watched.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Okay, so given your explanation than I should not be
surprised that Vince Vaughn's non As was number thirteen of
the most watched films on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
It's like they're just mass producing these easy, digestible things
to watch, and then something amazing you just see further
down in the list and you're like, oh, that didn't
make the cut. Oh okay. All the people just want
to see Susan Saranda and Vince Vaughn like make a pasta,
and I get.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
That sometimes, given the current climate of the world, that
is all you need to watch. Would there any surprises
on this list be were there things that you were like, Oh,
I'm really glad to see that so high up in
the list, or that should have been higher up in
the list.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I think North of North was a really great production
this year that I wish more people watched. That was
not as high as I would have liked. Four Seasons
was about where I expected to be, but it was
really great. Forever, which was like an adaptation of Judy
Bloom that was really fantastic. Everyone here loved it. Would
have loved to see that as one of the top
top shows. Untamed Eric Banner's new show has only just dropped,
so there was no way it was going to hit
(12:35):
in there. But I would love to see that hitting
those marks in the second half of the year.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And in terms of this kind of a list being
a good indicator of awards season that's coming up, people
from the moment that Adolescent drop had picked that as
that's gonna win all the awards this season. Is there
anything else in this list that maybe will get a
look in Do you think the four seasons?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Maybe like a Common Domingo noment the Golden Globes next year? Possibly,
But there's not a lot of these shows that you
see and you go, yeah, the caliber of everything was amazing.
There's a lot of misses in this top list. Hopefully
some nominations for Squid Game. That would be nice, I
think obviously, kind of in the same way that we
saw Baby Reindeer really take off on Netflix last year
and then win really big this year at all of
the Globes everything. We'd like to see the same for Adolescents, obviously,
(13:17):
because that was just such a big hitter and the
cast were fantastic and even the production too, so that
would be great. Same with Squid Game. Really good performances
in there, even if some people didn't think the season
held up as well.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Let's just turn focus to a bit of a different
Netflix story. I want to talk about Harry and Meghan.
There have been all of these headlines that they've been
dumped by Netflix, they've scrapped their deal. That's actually not
quite the case. So Netflix had this big, massive deal
with them, it's just not been renewed. The contract has ended. However,
we are still actually gonna see Meghan on our screens
(13:49):
again pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yes, so everyone was kind of like they've been fired,
and it's like no, actually, the contract just won't be renewed.
It was expiring in September anyway, rumored to be like
US one hundred million. This contract for two seasons of
With Love Megan, so pretty solid numbers there, and they
filmed both seasons of With Love Megan back to back,
so when the first one ended, they announced the second
one would be coming. And Megan is actually a producer
(14:13):
as well, so she kind of controls how this next
season will look. Even though she's had the contract expire,
she still gets to be in charge of how this
is gonna look and feel. So she's actually made out
pretty well here because they've gotten a lot of money
for her to stand in a kitchen and make some
nice jams and hang out with Mindy Kayling like that's
a nice Friday. And then they're still allegedly in conversations
with Netflix about maybe something else in the future. So
(14:34):
it's not quite as dramatic as everyone makes it seem,
but people were surprised that her show didn't rate as
highly as we expected.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Thanks for taking some time to feed your mind with
us today. The Quickie is produced by me Table Strano
and Claire Murphy, with audio production by Lou Hill.
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