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Welcome back to the Weekly Watch List.

The show where we count down the best movies and TV to stream right now on Prime Video.

Now it's already March, which means it's women's freaking History Month and joining me to break down this week's list is a longtime friend of the show and a movie expert in her own right.

Annie Brennan.

Thank you, Nate.

I am a movie expert.

These are the most badass and awesome female characters to watch right now on Amazon Prime Video.

First on our list, we have to tar Borat's 15 year old daughter from Borat.

Subsequent movie film played by the amazing Bulgarian actress Maria Baklava.

We have to be kind of weak, but I'm strong.

I can open a beer with my small hole.

I can't I Look, we gotta be appropriate and lady like, Okay, this is what you're not supposed to do.

Okay, you did do it Now.

The Borat sequel obviously centers around Sasha Baron Cohen's hilarious, iconic character, but I think it's actually two tars emotional journey that carries the movie.

Tudor starts off the film as a feral child being kept in a cage by her uncaring family who fully buys into all four ATS distorted ideas about womanhood, as seen in the weird manual, full of unhelpful advice on how to raise a girl.

Technical technical technical.

My job.

Tudor inadvertently traffics herself to United States, where Boris is tasked with giving her away as a sexual slave to GOP big shots like Mike Pence and Rudy Giuliani was actually on my Penis.

My anus.

I brought the girl for you.

She proceeds to get a nicer cage, a make over and learns more about American culture and how to present herself as the ideal child bride.

Then, if you like.

What I would suggest is that maybe we'll play some breast implants and what the mental breast the strong tea did He did.

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But her time in the U.

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Is transformative for both to tar and Bora as to tar, learns to say no to her father and even comes to love herself.

So, Annie, what about to tar is badass to you?

Well, I think that's pretty self evident.

She is a young woman who is coming of age.

And she is just met with misogyny from both people in Kazakhstan and America.

And she handles it with absolute grace.

She comes into her own and she manages to keep up with all the antics from Borat the entire time.

I don't think I could do that.

Good for you, Maria.

Be out there just killing it in your twenties with Borat and to keep a straight face the whole time.

Please, I wouldn't be able to do it.

You could never.

Well, maybe next up.

What do you do when all the female characters in the show are also the main characters?

Well, this is why we have no choice but to include all eight of the lead cast of the wilds.

You've all been given me shit about my toothbrush.

It's the jump.

This was obviously a targeted attack.

Better hope it still works.

It's gonna work.

Mhm.

I don't know.

It's dying.

I've never related so much to a toothbrush.

Eight girls get on a plane for an exclusive Hawaiian retreat slash women's empowerment camp called Dawn of Ive.

Only the plane goes down and they all mysteriously wash up on a seemingly desolate, deserted island.

There's fat in a promiscuous, hilarious cellist from Berkeley.

Leah, an obsessive girl with a dark romantic past.

Dot a tough loner who's watched a ton of survivalist shows.

Shelby, a closeted beauty queen from a conservative Christian family.

Tony, an aggressive, openly lesbian girl who is fiercely protective of her best friend.

Martha kind animal lover from the Ojibwe reservation.

Then there's Rachel, super intense competitive diver and her fraternal twin, Nora.

A quiet, sensitive artistic savant, The eight girls have to band together to survive and slowly unravel the mysterious circumstances behind the island.

Each episode reveals the girls increasingly tragic backstories one by one, but it's really their relationships with each other that define them.

Okay, Mhm Sony.

This was your pick.

Can you tell me what it is about these eight women that you find so badass?

Okay, well, first of all, falling out of the sky and surviving pretty badass.

Um, they're also like shucking shellfish and just, like hanging out and are alive on this barren island.

Also badass, I wouldn't be able to do that.

Second of all the way that they're all able to just, like, develop their characters so much and really vibe off of each other in such a short amount of time is also pretty bad ass.

I mean, I've been doing this show for 11 episodes, and I haven't developed any character coming up next.

You know, we have to talk about Robin, the professionally unflappable but personally self sabotaging PR agent from Flak.

What about a sex tape?

There hasn't been a good one of those in a while.

Okay, hang on just a second.

Really classy.

But it's classy, really.

What we're going for you.

Ooh, Lesbians, Lesbians, Perfect on trend and much less safe than straight.

Certainly wouldn't look like a little girl anymore.

It's well shot intended for private use.

Grown up, sophisticated.

Think Madonna.

Old Madonna.

Not old Madonna.

Then it gets leaked from your cloud.

You're horrified.

You make a public admission how betrayed you feel, getting the sympathy vote from the girl whilst turning yourself into a filthy little mix.

Nations sweethearts.

Dirty secret Flak is set in the unglamorous world of UK celebrity publicity.

Enter Anna Paquin is Robin, a PR fixer who swoops in on her clients dirty deeds to cover things up and change the narrative.

I'm thinking about which chat show hosts are most amenable to medical book.

I'm thinking about what color suit most reflects honesty and innocence, thinking about ghost writers and the fact that I can already name three publishers who would offer you a shed load of money to tell your side of the story.

That's what I'm thinking about.

Kelvin Robin specializes in challenge management, and with one unpaid intern and zero morals, she spends each episode helping dumb celebrities avoid scandal or, more often, staging new ones.

Whether it's contriving a domestic abuse story to cover up a client's facelift, Robin has an answer for everything and a bump of Coke for good measure.

So Annie Robin is your pick.

Why do you think she's so bad ass?

Well, they write off the jump.

You know, she pulled somebody out of an overdose without any medical intervention, and that is arguably badass.

Also, you know she's super competent at her job.

Whether or not her job is, you know, moral is up for debate, but she crashes it nonetheless.

And, you know, I keep hearing about Walter White and Don Draper and all these sort of beloved male anti heroes.

Well, let your girl resonate with some bad people to write.

I want to see ladies doing messed up.

Coming in at number four, we have one of the most powerful heroines in TV history.

I'm talking my girl guitarra from Avatar.

The Last Airbender Our our girl, Our girl.

So if you didn't know Avatar The Last Airbender is a series set in a world where people can control the elements called bending In this world group of kids bands together to take down the evil fire nation.

Yeah, Uh huh.

Oh Mm.

Qatar starts the series off as a young girl literally drifting, stuck in an ice floe with her brother Sokka, and ends the series as the strongest Waterbending master and one of the legendary avatars.

Greatest allies talk about a character arc.

Qatar is like the mom of the group, or sometimes she acts a little bossy and gets on people's nerves, but is ultimately the most compassionate member who's capable of caring for others and even pulling out of the avatar state.

When he goes berserk, she goes toe to toe with antagonist firebenders.

Azula and Zuko tracks down and confronts her mother's killer and masters.

The forbidden art of blood bending.

What is it specifically about?

Qatar?

That makes you think?

Whoa, that's about us, woman.

Well, first of all, she water bends, which is pretty bad ass.

She learns how to blood bend.

She pulls water out of plants.

I mean, she overcomes centuries of sexist oppression by forcing master pocket to teach her how to water bend.

So you decided to show up.

Aren't you gonna fight?

Go back to the healing huts with the other women where you belong.

Mhm five.

You want to learn to fight so bad Study closely.

Yeah, Yeah, Don't worry.

I'm not going to hurt you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You can't knock me down, okay?

And rounding things out, I would be completely remiss if I did not mention one of the O g badass female characters.

That's right.

Ladies and gents, I am talking Lieutenant Uhura from Star Trek.

The original series hailing frequencies are open.

Saloon.

Give me there.

I'll protect you, Fair lady.

Sorry, Neither Played by the amazing Michelle Nichols, who broke barriers in the sixties as one of the first black women to be portrayed as both a commanding officer and a scientist.

Not only that whore is Kiss With Kirk in Plato's Stepchildren was one of the first interracial kissing scenes in American TV history.

Horror is one of the most enduring icons of science fiction and someone who didn't need any man's protection.

Now, to be honest, this was still the sixties and Broadway actress triple threat Nischelle.

Nichols definitely wasn't given enough to do on the show.

She even contemplated walking away from the role until major Trekkie slash civil rights legend Dr Martin Luther King Jr insisted she stay on the show as a rare positive portrayal of black women in a position of authority, an inspiration to black girls everywhere.

And we are grateful she did so, Anne, if you don't mind, why don't you break down for us a little bit?

Why, Lieutenant, who was such a bad ass?

You know, I would actually love to do that for you need.

First of all, she's a lieutenant.

Okay, so that is somebody in charge in space.

She's a woman in stem in the 19 sixties, were forced to stand secondly, anytime somebody steps out of line.

She had some of one of these and they are right back in check.

Okay, I'm gonna try that.

MLK specifically asked Michelle Nichols to keep this role, and I think that she just absolutely blew it out of the park.

So she's an icon, majorly bad ass.

And there you have it.

Five of the most badass women from series available stream right now on prime video and special.

Thanks again to Anne for sharing her expertise on this week's list.

You're welcome, Nate.

It has been my pleasure to be here happy in Women's History Month.

Everybody go out and do nice things for the women in your lives because they rule.

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