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Chapter 1: What Netflix series does John Fardy discuss?
The Pat Kenny Show on Newstalk. Well, now it's time for Boxed, where John Fardy recommends some new TV, you know, streaming from the various platforms. So, John, what have you chosen?
We've gone big mistakes on Netflix. Last time I was on, we did The Pit, which is very heavy medical drama. I just thought we needed to lighten the load. The weather's out.
This has good provenance.
Chapter 2: Who are the key creators behind 'Bad Mistakes'?
It does, because Dan Levy is the co-creator, and he was the co-creator with his dad of the brilliant Schitt's Creek. And I'm not swearing, that's what it's called, right? Okay, what's the conceit here? The conceit is a delightful one. And again, like Schitt's Creek, it's in essence a family drama. So Daniel Levy plays Nicky, who is a closeted pastor.
He's a gay man living somewhat of a secret life with his boyfriend.
He's allowed to be gay, but not to consummate.
Exactly, exactly.
Chapter 3: What is the premise of 'Bad Mistakes'?
If you want to get specific about it, that's exactly it, Pat. But he is consummating, spoiler alert, which we do see at times, but it's not that type of show, I should say. He has this strange family. His mother, played by Laurie Metcalf, she's tough work, you know, as families can often be, and she's running for mayor, but he has a sister, played brilliantly by Taylor Ortega, who is a teacher.
She's not a bad teacher, but she wants more in life. So that's the set-up. Their grandmother is dying at the start of the show. So they go to a small little gift shop and they want to buy a kind of what seems like a knockoff bracelet to put possibly in their grandmother's coffin. And here is them attempting to buy that bracelet.
Hey, excuse me. That's display only. OK, yeah, I just wanted to try it on. It's not for sale. I know, you've made that really clear. Could you grab me one from the back? No, because that's actually the last one. Okay, good, then I wanna buy that one. Can you leave it alone? It's not for you, okay? Seriously? It's a cheap f***ing necklace in a cheap f***ing store. Yeah.
Who's it for if it's not for me? Then get the f*** out of here.
Chapter 4: How does the family dynamic play a role in the show?
Oh, okay. Whoa. Morgan, can you just accept the fact that this isn't some hot New York boutique? A hot New York boutique? What are you, addicted to humiliating yourself? By the way, who wishes this was a hot New York boutique? Get your wife under control, man. All right, she's not my wife. I'm the pastor of Glenview Community Church, and even if she was, I don't think we need to get hostile.
Even if I was. Oh, Morgan, please.
You're a very rude woman.
You're a very rude woman. Morgan, wait outside.
It's great. It's laugh out loud at times. Yes, because you've started watching it, right?
And you've been enjoying it, which I'm delighted about because not everyone's loving it. I think it's actually delightful. And it's delightful because at source, it is a crime drama, right? In some ways.
But it could have been written by Woody Allen. It's that kind of script.
Yeah, absolutely. It's that razor sharp. But it's a crime drama in one level because what happens is they're trying to buy that bracelet. And this isn't a spoiler because it's in the trailer. It turns out they do buy that bracelet, but that bracelet belonged to some pretty serious people and in a kind of Bunny and Clyde fashion.
And we're led to assume early on that this may not be a cheap knockoff. It may be more significant.
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Chapter 5: What unexpected events unfold in 'Bad Mistakes'?
Nothing. I'm just saying, I don't really... I don't know. I don't know. Get some new cufflinks. Why are we talking about cufflinks? I believe they were gold. It was a gold cufflink. It fell in, and I just... I'm trying to figure out if there's a way of getting them back. I don't know. Honey, if it's in the coffin, it's in the ground. So what are you going to do?
I guess... I don't... I mean, I guess nothing. I guess nothing. I just thought maybe since she was buried this morning, this soil might be loose enough to... Nicholas! Oh my god. Are you suggesting that we exhume my mother for a cufflink? No! Of course not! Of course not! Do they do that?
You have lost your mind.
It's absolutely brilliant.
Body snatchers. Dan Levy has this thing of the world presents situations to him and he's like, excuse me, what? You want me to do what? And it gets funnier and funnier as it goes on. And this isn't a spoiler, but the way it ends is brilliant. I've watched all eight. The way it ends is a shot in the dark. It's brilliant. OK, what have you got on screen time?
Yes, we have Paddy Branagh and Nancy Harris who wrote a brilliant series we did in Boxed a while ago called The Dry, a new book about American film music and did Travesty, and I'm happy to say it, that is the new Michael Jackson biopic. It never should have been made.
Even though it was played by a relative, I believe.
It's an impersonation. The whole thing is a car crash. And I hope it doesn't do well because it never should have been made. I'm sorry to say that as someone who used to be a massive Michael Jackson fan.
Watching Big Mistakes and loving it says one of our listeners. Now, your heart missed a beat when I told you that Paul Meskell was on the show later today. Yeah, what's going on? Paul Meskell Sr. Oh, wonderful.
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