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What shows and guests are introduced at the start of this week's Watchlist?
August can be a very thin month for new releases on TV stations and even in the cinema as everybody sort of pulls back for the autumn-winter season but we've deployed Owen Sweeney, TV and radio producer and Gráinne Humphreys, director of the Dublin International Film Festival to scar the listings nonetheless to help us in the watch list. Oh, and I'm going to start with you. The Italian mafia drama Gamora is delving into its own origin story. If you haven't seen the big series, is this worth starting?
Absolutely, absolutely. It is resolutely in the 1970s. We've had, in terms of Gamara, we had the novel came first, Roberto Saviano's novel, upon which the film of 2008 was based, and then there was a series of, I think, five, I think it was five series, sorry, yeah, five series of the actual kind of expanded Gamara-Napoli organised crime universe that wrapped up in 2021, and I suppose... If you were a fan of something like The Sopranos and you went to the prequel movie and were slightly chastened by the experience, don't be worried about this. This is kind of, this is, you know, it's everything. It can't be fun. It's also kind of, you know, violent, murky underworld. But, you know, not too much of anything really to put you off.
But you don't need to know the characters. You don't need to know who's going to end up being the kingpin, although, you know, it starts off with that premise. it's very much Naples it's Napoli is a character as it is the local pride the port city the crime you know it all ties together there's a bunch of teenagers trying to you know kind of the usual stuff we've seen it in the streets of New York idolising 20 something kind of mafiosi and kind of wanting their life and thinking they don't have to answer to anybody and they're going to get out of the ghetto because it is destitute basically it's you know shared toilet kind of living squalor it's that sort and in the sun kind of you know you know
They're the forgotten Mezzogiorno of Italy of the 1970s.
Flares, disco and youthful exuberance. There is disco. The soundtrack is great.
There's plenty of flares.
Is Gomorrah: The Origins a good standalone mafia prequel set in 1970s Naples?
There's plenty of crack. It's good fun. But, you know, there is that kind of, you know, not giving anything away, you know, one character betrays the other. They're best friends.
Well, it's mafia. We'd expect that.
Yeah, so he has to kind of act on this act of betrayal. But all you're hearing is the clinking of the teaspoon on the coffee cup as he sips his last taste of espresso. So it's incredibly Italian. There's plenty of spaghetti. There's rice balls. There's gambling. It's all there. It's good fun.
It's perfect. Spiderman is back and obviously they're now married in real life. The on-screen chemistry between Tom Holland and Zendaya in this next instalment?
Still the best thing Of the series, I would say. I mean, I stepped away, I have to say. So I was kind of coming back to it to kind of see, you know, if I could still kind of, you know, connect all the dots. And it is about, you know, Tom Holland on his own. You know, Peter Parker has basically kind of, you know, stepped away from being Peter and embraced his Spider-Man persona. So, you know, the city knows him. He is familiar to people on the streets, to everybody, but he is a lonely, broken man who no longer has his circle around him. And so, of course, the story, all two hours and 25 minutes of it, is about finding that connection back with Zendaya and MJ. And fighting crime is obviously part of it as well.
And it's brand new. It's brand new day. It's already breaking box office records all over the place. The action sequences are fantastic. I personally would have liked maybe a little more of a defined baddie. But God help him, that man Holland has great charisma and he can, you know, he'll ride you through the maybe slow bits.
Let's see them when they're in their... Late 40s and 50s to see how all the chemistry is holding up. Owen, there's a true crime investigation into the disappearance of a British officer in Northern Ireland, not just any British officer in Northern Ireland.
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