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Time Out
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
BBC's ‘Mix Tape' Soundtrack: Full Tracklist of Songs by Episode
One of those decades-spanning love stories that puts you through the emotional wringer, Mix Tape is a perfect binge for anyone who still wistfully remembers One Day (Netflix series, book or movie). And in a twist of fate, the BBC/Binge four-parter also stars Jim Sturgess, the lead in the 2011 One Day movie, as another lovelorn character who holds a torch for an old flame from his teenage years into his middle years. Sturgess plays Daniel and The Fall Guy 's Teresa Palmer is his long-time crush Alison in a music-soaked romantic drama that follows the pair from their partying youths (where they're played by Bridgerton 's Florence Hunt and newcomer Rory Walton-Smith) to wobbly married lives with other people on different continents. As its title implies, the bond of music – especially alternative anthems of the '80s and '90s – offers a motif for the pair's enduring connection throughout the series. And what a soundtrack it is, reflecting the music scenes of its two cities – Sheffield and Sydney – in fairly iconic style. In common with the novel on which its based, the show packs in a crate load of tunes: from Aussie bands like 1927 and The Church, to British post-punk legends like The Psychedelic Furs and The Cure, and Sheffield hometown heroes Arctic Monkeys and Richard Hawley. Listen out for the great Nick Drake too. Here's the soundtrack in full: EPISODE 1 Fool's Gold – The Stone Roses Home is the Range – The Comsat Angels Bizarre Love Triangle – New Order Fluorescent Adolescent – Arctic Monkeys Sweet Tooth Outlaw – The Psychs Prize – Kitchens of Distinction Northern Sky – Nick Drake Late Again - ALWAYS Road – Nick Drake Outro – Jackson Reid Briggs & The Heaters Under The Milky Way - The Church Close To Me - The Cure Stephanie Says - The Velvet Underground Some Candy Talking - The Jesus and Mary Chain EPISODE 2 Hit the North – The Fall That's When I Think of You - 1927 Love My Way - The Psychedelic Furs Lovesong - The Cure Tainted Love - Gloria Jones The Deepest Sighs, The Frankest Shadow s - Gang of Youths EPISODE 3 Big Jet Plane - Angus and Julia Stone Something Is - Richard Hawley Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division Bizarre Love Triangle - Frente! EPISODE 4 I Fall Apart - Rory Gallagher She is Everything – Blue In Heaven Background Check - Display Homes I Love You - The Brian Jonestown Massacre Live It Up - Mental As Anything Lovesong - The Cure How can I watch Mix Tape? All four episodes are on BBC iPlayer now. The best TV and streaming shows of 2025 (so far). The 101 most romantic movies of all time.
Sydney Morning Herald
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
What to stream this week: Teresa Palmer's Gen X drama and five more to add to your list
Our picks this week include an Australian-Irish romantic drama, an Agatha Christie adaptation starring Matthew Rhys, and documentaries about an eccentric football legend and U2's Bono. Mix Tape ★★★ (Binge and Foxtel) Mix Tape is all about the wonder. First love, favourite songs and inescapable heartbreak are the building blocks of this Irish-Australian romantic drama. Ricocheting between past and present, the teenage protagonists and their middle-aged successors, these four hour-long episodes have an inexorable momentum. It's not subtle, but it's effective. Yes, the plot forcefully pushes these characters into bitter circumstances, but there's also a deeper recognition that sometimes a gesture, or an unspoken decision, or a great song, can add more than carefully crafted detail. Loading Sheffield, England, 1989: lanky teen Dan O'Toole (Rory Walton-Smith) sights high school classmate Alison Connor (Florence Hunt) across the room at a house party. New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle is playing: 'I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue.' Cut to the present day and Dan (Jim Sturgess) is a music journalist, still based in Sheffield and married with a son to Katja (Sara Soulie), while Alison (Teresa Palmer) is getting far more sunshine in Sydney, mother of two daughters and married to surgeon Michael (Ben Lawson). Why aren't they together? When will they get back together? Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart is obviously cued up, but this adaptation of Jane Sanderson's 2020 novel knows, as does the viewer, that Dan and Alison are meant to be together, both as a means of healing and a wellspring of happiness. Their children are mostly leaving home and their partners are slightly off – the emphasis Michael puts on the 'my' in 'you're my wife' lingers uneasily. 'You never forget the boy who makes you your first mix-tape,' Alison tells her daughter, Stella (Julia Savage), which means more once Alison explains to her Spotify-era child what a mix-tape is. Loading Irish writer Jo Spain (Harry Wild) and Australian director Lucy Gaffy (Irreverent) treat love and longing as a magnetic force. It draws the teenagers together, with montages and shared reveries that come with an impeccable soundtrack – Psychedelic Furs, The Church, The Cure – and immaculate production design for the adolescent bedrooms. There's a degree of nostalgia, which some will happily succumb to, but this Gen X mix of Nick Hornby and Nancy Meyers (Alison's home has Bondi Beach views) also liberally applies tragic circumstances, especially in Alison's case, to divide the young lovers. There are tendrils of other shows, including the reckoning with unspoken trauma, the meaning behind a midlife crisis and the technical wonder that was a dual cassette deck, but fulfilling kismet is the goal. And when that happens, shared gazes and the right song do the job. Towards Zero ★★★½ (BritBox) To its last collective breath, the BBC will be producing Agatha Christie adaptations. The late author is a murder-mystery franchise that cannot be killed. The question is how they can defy, or at least tweak, tradition. This three-part update of Christie's 1944 novel tries a few diverse gambits, which surprisingly mesh. There's a stellar cast, led by Anjelica Huston (Transparent) and Matthew Rhys (The Americans), but also structural adjustments and a knowing celebration of cliches. Loading As conveyed by a fateful opening monologue, Rachel Bennette's adaptation wants to track how the many suspects came to be assembled in the Devon mansion of bedbound tyrant Lady Tresillian (Huston), and their torturous connections. The key crime isn't the plot's inciting incident, it's a culmination well after the introduction. By then you've studied tennis star Nevile Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), his new wife Kay (Mimi Keene), and his former wife Audrey (Ella Lily Hyland). Add suspicious cousins and creepy servants, too. With incitement from director Sam Yates, the plot leans into period scandal – a courtroom collectively gasps when Kay is labelled a 'gold digger' – and throwback designer chic. It would be all too wink-wink if the investigating detective, Inspector Leach (Rhys), wasn't dishevelled, depressed, and disinclined to believe anyone. Leach's professionalism, like the show, has a wilful streak. It's not clear that solving the case will save him. Pernille (seasons 1-5) ★★★★ (Netflix) Here's a stealth winter watch. A slice-of-life Norwegian comic-drama that takes in bittersweet lows and everyday hopes, it follows child-welfare worker Pernille (Henriette Steenstrup, the show's creator), a single mother juggling two demanding daughters, a demanding career and, frankly, several other demands. It's a messy, matter-of-fact life – Pernille neglects herself at times while trying to help others, copes in good and bad ways, and reveals a sardonic worldview. One Mississippi or Better Things are points of comparison but Pernille feels more connected to everyday struggle. It's a show that's doing exactly what it wants. Bono: Stories of Surrender ★★★ Apple TV+ Australian filmmaker Andrew Dominik (Chopper, Blonde) continues his music documentary arc, switching from Nick Cave to U2's frontman for this filmed performance of the singer's 2023 one-man show. It's a mix of memoir, focused on Bono's childhood when he was still just Paul Hewson, and the salvation U2 afforded him after teenage losses, matched with stripped-down versions of the band's hits. It's revelatory in a sense but Bono has long been a master of rock'n'roll mystique, and that's maintained by Dominik, whose black-and-white images reverently cloak Bono. Ange & the Boss: Puskas in Australia ★★★½ (DocPlay) Ange is Ange Postecoglou, the recently sacked Australian manager of English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur, whose initial playing career at South Melbourne FC included a stint as defender, driver and translator – from Greek to English – for Ferenc Puskas, the Hungarian legend who was the best player in the world in the 1950s prior to Pele's ascent, before enjoying a nomadic managerial career that brought him to Melbourne in 1990. This is a joyous sports documentary about Australia's migrant heritage, footballing philosophy and an idiosyncratic giant of the game. Rick and Morty (season 8) ★★½ (Max) An adult animated comedy created by Community's Dan Harmon and the since-departed Justin Roiland, Rick and Morty has become one of television's enduring cult series. It has a good-sized and furiously devoted audience – the reason it has now reached its eighth season – but it can also repel first-time viewers as it cartwheels through the cosmic mishaps of mad scientist Rick Sanchez (Ian Cardoni) and his press-ganged grandson Morty Smith (Harry Belden). I have tried with this show repeatedly and fallen short as its madcap verve can drift into the self-referential, but it's not going anywhere.
The Age
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
What to stream this week: Teresa Palmer's Gen X drama and five more to add to your list
Our picks this week include an Australian-Irish romantic drama, an Agatha Christie adaptation starring Matthew Rhys, and documentaries about an eccentric football legend and U2's Bono. Mix Tape ★★★ (Binge and Foxtel) Mix Tape is all about the wonder. First love, favourite songs and inescapable heartbreak are the building blocks of this Irish-Australian romantic drama. Ricocheting between past and present, the teenage protagonists and their middle-aged successors, these four hour-long episodes have an inexorable momentum. It's not subtle, but it's effective. Yes, the plot forcefully pushes these characters into bitter circumstances, but there's also a deeper recognition that sometimes a gesture, or an unspoken decision, or a great song, can add more than carefully crafted detail. Loading Sheffield, England, 1989: lanky teen Dan O'Toole (Rory Walton-Smith) sights high school classmate Alison Connor (Florence Hunt) across the room at a house party. New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle is playing: 'I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue.' Cut to the present day and Dan (Jim Sturgess) is a music journalist, still based in Sheffield and married with a son to Katja (Sara Soulie), while Alison (Teresa Palmer) is getting far more sunshine in Sydney, mother of two daughters and married to surgeon Michael (Ben Lawson). Why aren't they together? When will they get back together? Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart is obviously cued up, but this adaptation of Jane Sanderson's 2020 novel knows, as does the viewer, that Dan and Alison are meant to be together, both as a means of healing and a wellspring of happiness. Their children are mostly leaving home and their partners are slightly off – the emphasis Michael puts on the 'my' in 'you're my wife' lingers uneasily. 'You never forget the boy who makes you your first mix-tape,' Alison tells her daughter, Stella (Julia Savage), which means more once Alison explains to her Spotify-era child what a mix-tape is. Loading Irish writer Jo Spain (Harry Wild) and Australian director Lucy Gaffy (Irreverent) treat love and longing as a magnetic force. It draws the teenagers together, with montages and shared reveries that come with an impeccable soundtrack – Psychedelic Furs, The Church, The Cure – and immaculate production design for the adolescent bedrooms. There's a degree of nostalgia, which some will happily succumb to, but this Gen X mix of Nick Hornby and Nancy Meyers (Alison's home has Bondi Beach views) also liberally applies tragic circumstances, especially in Alison's case, to divide the young lovers. There are tendrils of other shows, including the reckoning with unspoken trauma, the meaning behind a midlife crisis and the technical wonder that was a dual cassette deck, but fulfilling kismet is the goal. And when that happens, shared gazes and the right song do the job. Towards Zero ★★★½ (BritBox) To its last collective breath, the BBC will be producing Agatha Christie adaptations. The late author is a murder-mystery franchise that cannot be killed. The question is how they can defy, or at least tweak, tradition. This three-part update of Christie's 1944 novel tries a few diverse gambits, which surprisingly mesh. There's a stellar cast, led by Anjelica Huston (Transparent) and Matthew Rhys (The Americans), but also structural adjustments and a knowing celebration of cliches. Loading As conveyed by a fateful opening monologue, Rachel Bennette's adaptation wants to track how the many suspects came to be assembled in the Devon mansion of bedbound tyrant Lady Tresillian (Huston), and their torturous connections. The key crime isn't the plot's inciting incident, it's a culmination well after the introduction. By then you've studied tennis star Nevile Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), his new wife Kay (Mimi Keene), and his former wife Audrey (Ella Lily Hyland). Add suspicious cousins and creepy servants, too. With incitement from director Sam Yates, the plot leans into period scandal – a courtroom collectively gasps when Kay is labelled a 'gold digger' – and throwback designer chic. It would be all too wink-wink if the investigating detective, Inspector Leach (Rhys), wasn't dishevelled, depressed, and disinclined to believe anyone. Leach's professionalism, like the show, has a wilful streak. It's not clear that solving the case will save him. Pernille (seasons 1-5) ★★★★ (Netflix) Here's a stealth winter watch. A slice-of-life Norwegian comic-drama that takes in bittersweet lows and everyday hopes, it follows child-welfare worker Pernille (Henriette Steenstrup, the show's creator), a single mother juggling two demanding daughters, a demanding career and, frankly, several other demands. It's a messy, matter-of-fact life – Pernille neglects herself at times while trying to help others, copes in good and bad ways, and reveals a sardonic worldview. One Mississippi or Better Things are points of comparison but Pernille feels more connected to everyday struggle. It's a show that's doing exactly what it wants. Bono: Stories of Surrender ★★★ Apple TV+ Australian filmmaker Andrew Dominik (Chopper, Blonde) continues his music documentary arc, switching from Nick Cave to U2's frontman for this filmed performance of the singer's 2023 one-man show. It's a mix of memoir, focused on Bono's childhood when he was still just Paul Hewson, and the salvation U2 afforded him after teenage losses, matched with stripped-down versions of the band's hits. It's revelatory in a sense but Bono has long been a master of rock'n'roll mystique, and that's maintained by Dominik, whose black-and-white images reverently cloak Bono. Ange & the Boss: Puskas in Australia ★★★½ (DocPlay) Ange is Ange Postecoglou, the recently sacked Australian manager of English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur, whose initial playing career at South Melbourne FC included a stint as defender, driver and translator – from Greek to English – for Ferenc Puskas, the Hungarian legend who was the best player in the world in the 1950s prior to Pele's ascent, before enjoying a nomadic managerial career that brought him to Melbourne in 1990. This is a joyous sports documentary about Australia's migrant heritage, footballing philosophy and an idiosyncratic giant of the game. Rick and Morty (season 8) ★★½ (Max) An adult animated comedy created by Community's Dan Harmon and the since-departed Justin Roiland, Rick and Morty has become one of television's enduring cult series. It has a good-sized and furiously devoted audience – the reason it has now reached its eighth season – but it can also repel first-time viewers as it cartwheels through the cosmic mishaps of mad scientist Rick Sanchez (Ian Cardoni) and his press-ganged grandson Morty Smith (Harry Belden). I have tried with this show repeatedly and fallen short as its madcap verve can drift into the self-referential, but it's not going anywhere.
Sydney Morning Herald
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Filled with nostalgia and great music, this Gen X romantic drama hits the right notes
Mix Tape ★★★ Mix Tape is all about the wonder. First love, favourite songs and inescapable heartbreak are the building blocks of this Irish-Australian romantic drama. Ricocheting between past and present, the teenage protagonists and their middle-aged successors, these four hour-long episodes have an inexorable momentum. It's not subtle, but it's effective. Yes, the plot forcefully pushes these characters into bitter circumstances, but there's also a deeper recognition that sometimes a gesture, or an unspoken decision, or a great song, can add more than carefully crafted detail. Sheffield, England, 1989: lanky teen Dan O'Toole (Rory Walton-Smith) sights high school classmate Alison Connor (Florence Hunt) across the room at a house party. New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle is playing: 'I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue.' Cut to the present day and Dan (Jim Sturgess) is a music journalist, still based in Sheffield and married with a son to Katja (Sara Soulie), while Alison (Teresa Palmer) is getting far more sunshine in Sydney, mother of two daughters and married to surgeon Michael (Ben Lawson). Why aren't they together? When will they get back together? Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart is obviously cued up, but this adaptation of Jane Sanderson's 2020 novel knows, as does the viewer, that Dan and Alison are meant to be together, both as a means of healing and a wellspring of happiness. Their children are mostly leaving home and their partners are slightly off – the emphasis Michael puts on the 'my' in 'you're my wife' lingers uneasily. Loading 'You never forget the boy who makes you your first mix-tape,' Alison tells her daughter, Stella (Julia Savage), which means more once Alison explains to her Spotify-era child what a mix-tape is. Irish writer Jo Spain (Harry Wild) and Australian director Lucy Gaffy (Irreverent) treat love and longing as a magnetic force. It draws the teenagers together, with montages and shared reveries that come with an impeccable soundtrack – Psychedelic Furs, The Church, The Cure – and immaculate production design for the adolescent bedrooms.
The Age
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
Filled with nostalgia and great music, this Gen X romantic drama hits the right notes
Mix Tape ★★★ Mix Tape is all about the wonder. First love, favourite songs and inescapable heartbreak are the building blocks of this Irish-Australian romantic drama. Ricocheting between past and present, the teenage protagonists and their middle-aged successors, these four hour-long episodes have an inexorable momentum. It's not subtle, but it's effective. Yes, the plot forcefully pushes these characters into bitter circumstances, but there's also a deeper recognition that sometimes a gesture, or an unspoken decision, or a great song, can add more than carefully crafted detail. Sheffield, England, 1989: lanky teen Dan O'Toole (Rory Walton-Smith) sights high school classmate Alison Connor (Florence Hunt) across the room at a house party. New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle is playing: 'I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue.' Cut to the present day and Dan (Jim Sturgess) is a music journalist, still based in Sheffield and married with a son to Katja (Sara Soulie), while Alison (Teresa Palmer) is getting far more sunshine in Sydney, mother of two daughters and married to surgeon Michael (Ben Lawson). Why aren't they together? When will they get back together? Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart is obviously cued up, but this adaptation of Jane Sanderson's 2020 novel knows, as does the viewer, that Dan and Alison are meant to be together, both as a means of healing and a wellspring of happiness. Their children are mostly leaving home and their partners are slightly off – the emphasis Michael puts on the 'my' in 'you're my wife' lingers uneasily. Loading 'You never forget the boy who makes you your first mix-tape,' Alison tells her daughter, Stella (Julia Savage), which means more once Alison explains to her Spotify-era child what a mix-tape is. Irish writer Jo Spain (Harry Wild) and Australian director Lucy Gaffy (Irreverent) treat love and longing as a magnetic force. It draws the teenagers together, with montages and shared reveries that come with an impeccable soundtrack – Psychedelic Furs, The Church, The Cure – and immaculate production design for the adolescent bedrooms.
