Another superhero series suggested by Sam but does it make the cut for top five? We know there's a lot of 'superhero shows' out at the moment, but Umbrella Academy is new, and Sam reckons your time is better spent watching this than Netflix's Russian Doll. Tough call.
At Tess's special request, Sam (resident TV expert) investigates True Detective Season 3 but is the world of crime series over-saturated? Can yet another mystery thriller survive? Despite the long episodes, Sam's almost convinced...
Teresa Patterson pops in to talk to Mikey about Milk & Honey, the festival on International Women's Day, Friday 8 March. Over twenty of Aotearoa’s finest female artists are gathering across three cities to perform a series of shows to celebrate the incredibly talented women who work in the New Zealand music industry. Hooray for women!
Everybody loves a good medical drama, right? From House to Scrubs... the list goes on, and Sam's got a personal favourite on that list. New Amsterdam is one season deep, based on the book Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer. The series follows Dr. Max Goodwin, the medical director of one of the oldest public hospitals in the US, with goals to reform the neglected facility. Sam reckons you should get amongst.
Julia's been Working on her Night Moves in her new play Working on My Night Moves at the Basement Theatre. In the third installment of her series, Julia's created a feminist utopia, what a perfect futuristic world looks like. Get yr tickets to blast yourself into the future.
Samoa House Library, your fave community run and sourced art library on K'rd, is putting on a series of public programmes called *Curriculum*. Josh and Hannah popped into studio to talk us through their first event on saturday and how the rest of the pseudo-summer school programme will run.
This week we hear from Berlin-based sound artist and electronic composer Jasmine Guffond ahead of her one-off performance at Samoa House fale. We also have the last installment of the Wide Angle podcast series, thanks to Nikon and 95bFM. This week's guest is Edith Amituanai, a photographer based in Tamaki Makaurau whose practice centres on portraiture; documenting the communities around her and exploring what it means to make a home. For the full 30 mins, and the other four episodes, head along to mynikonlife.co.nz
Sam from Vice's new series, Sex With Sam, is here to talk about sex. After filming episodes where he goes into a rural community to understand what being a gay farmer is like, or heading to the Blue Lotus in Takapuna to experience tantric sex magic, Sam is somewhat of an expert on the topic and is here to ask the question, are we really that open minded?
Sam's really excited about Love, Death & Robots this week, another Netflix speciality that's pushing the boundaries of a TV series structure. With episodes ranging from six to 17 minutes, this show takes the data from your Netflix algorithm's and produces a sequence specific to your taste. Wow.
So Sam wasn't the biggest fan of Ricky Gervais, but has his latest Netflix release, After Life, managed to change Sam's mind? With a warning of sensitive content, Sam reckons this is a pretty good series that's worth a binge watch.
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