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Vanity Fair
Join Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson, Chris Murphy, and Hillary Busis as they recap and analyze the most exciting series on TV and streaming, and get the inside story on how they came together through interviews with television stars and creators. Get in touch, email us at stillwatching@vanityfair.com.
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Apr 15, 2022 • 47min
Still Watching: The Downfall of Startups: Episode 7
This week, Richard is joined by Vanity Fair's HWD editor Julie Miller to discuss the season finale of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber titled "Same Last Name," and the penultimate episode of WeCrashed, "The Power of We"This season Still Watching will be breaking down three shows that look at the recent past of technology companies: WeCrashed (covering the fall of WeWork) on Apple TV+, The Dropout (chronicling the fall of Theranos) on HBO, and Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber on Showtime.
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Apr 8, 2022 • 1h 8min
Still Watching: The Downfall of Startups: Episode 6
This week, Richard is joined by Vanity Fair's HWD editor Julie Miller to discuss The Dropout's (maybe) final episode "Lizzy," the newest WeCrashed episode "Fortitude," and the newest Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber's episode "Delete Uber." Richard interviews the star of The Dropout, Amanda Seyfried about becoming Elizabeth Holmes for the miniseries.This season Still Watching will be breaking down three shows that look at the recent past of technology companies: WeCrashed (covering the fall of WeWork) on Apple TV+, The Dropout (chronicling the fall of Theranos) on HBO, and Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber on Showtime.
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Apr 1, 2022 • 1h 9min
Still Watching: The Downfall of Startups: Episode 5
This week, Richard is joined Vanity Fair's Chris Murphy to discuss the newest WeCrashed episode "Hustle Harder," The Dropout's penultimate episode "Heroes," and the newest Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber's episode "The Charm Offensive." Richard interviews WeCrashed creators Drew Crevello and Lee Eisenberg about translating the reality of Adam and Rebekah Neumann and some of the moral questions of the series.This season Still Watching will be breaking down three shows that look at the recent past of technology companies: WeCrashed (covering the fall of WeWork) on Apple TV+, The Dropout (chronicling the fall of Theranos) on HBO, and Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber on Showtime.
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Mar 25, 2022 • 60min
Still Watching: The Downfall of Startups: Episode 4
This week, Richard is joined Vanity Fair's HWD Editor Hilary Busis to discuss Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber's newest episode "Boober," The Dropout's newest episode "Iron Sisters," and the newest WeCrashed episode "4.4." Katey interviews Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman who explores his 2019 article about the rise and fall of Adam Nuemann and WeWork.This season Still Watching will be breaking down three shows that look at the recent past of technology companies: WeCrashed (covering the fall of WeWork) on Apple TV+, The Dropout (chronicling the fall of Theranos) on HBO, and Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber on Showtime.
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Mar 18, 2022 • 1h 9min
Still Watching: The Downfall of Startups: Episode 3
This week, Richard is re-joined Vanity Fair's Julie Miller and Katey Rich to discuss the first three episodes of WeCrashed, starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway, on Apple TV+, plus new episodes of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber on Showtime, and The Dropout on Hulu. Katey interviews Kyle Marvin who talks about going from producer and actor on The Climb premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 to his role as Miguel Mckelvey on WeCrashed.This season Still Watching will be breaking down three shows that look at the recent past of technology companies: WeCrashed (covering the fall of WeWork), The Dropout (chronicling the fall of Theranos) and Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber. For a transcript of this episode, please follow this link.
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Mar 11, 2022 • 1h 11min
Still Watching: The Downfall of Startups: Episode 2
This week, Richard is joined by Vanity Fair's David Canfield to cover "X to the X," the second episode of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber on Showtime, and "Old White Men" the fourth episode ofThe Dropouton Hulu. Richard interviews Beth Schacter, Brian Koppelman, and David Levien, the showrunners ofSuper Pumped: The Battle For Uber.This season Still Watching will be breaking down three shows that look at the recent past of technology companies: WeCrashed (covering the fall of WeWork), The Dropout (chronicling the fall of Theranos) and Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber. For a transcript of this episode, please follow this link.
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Mar 4, 2022 • 1h 13min
Still Watching: The Downfall of Startups: Episode 1
This week, Richard is joined by Vanity Fair's Julie Miller to cover the first three episodes of The Dropout on Hulu and the premiere episode of Super Pumped on Showtime. Julie fact checks The Dropout's portrayal of Elizabeth Holmes and the real stories Super Pumped is addressing and Richard has a conversation with Liz Meriwether, the showrunner of The Dropout.This season Still Watching will be breaking down three shows that look at the recent past of technology companies: WeCrashed (covering the fall of WeWork), The Dropout (chronicling the fall of Theranos) and Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber. For a transcript of this episode, please follow this link.
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Feb 25, 2022 • 5min
Still Watching: Super Pumped, The Dropout, WeCrashed
This spring on Still Watching, Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson will be breaking down three shows that look at the recent past of technology companies: WeCrashed (covering the fall of WeWork), The Dropout (chronicling the fall of Theranos) and Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber. Lawson and his colleges from Vanity Fair's HWD and The Hive sections review episodes and interview the creatives behind this season's most exciting television.
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Dec 23, 2021 • 47min
Still Watching: And Just Like That
Vanity Fair's Katey Rich, Hillary Busis and Julie Miller are Still Watching And Just Like That, the "new chapter" of Sex and the City that is currently airing on HBO Max.This podcast covers the first four episodes of the series as your host break down the very real Chris Noth drama, where each of our main characters has ended up after Sex and the City 2, and ask themselves...is there enough sex in this Sex and the City?
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Dec 13, 2021 • 58min
Still Watching: Succession Season 3 - "All the Bells Say"
Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson and Sonia Saraiya are Still Watching the Roy family for the third season of Succession on HBO. This week covers the finale episode of the third season, "All the Bells Say" which aired Sunday December 12th on HBO.
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