Culture Gabfest: Dead Ringers' Gynecological Horror

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🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week, Dana, Julia, and Stephen begin by talking about the new Amazon series, Dead Ringers. Then the L.A. Times’ Anousha Sakoui joins to discuss the WGA strike. Finally, Slate’s Dan Kois sits in to talk about the writing and revising of the story of digital media and Ben Smith’s book "Traffic.” In Slate Plus, the panel gets into the health of alcohol and caffeine, inspired by this Slate article: https://slate.com/technology/2023/04/alcohol-wine-drinking-healthy-dangerous-study.html Email us at [email protected]. Endorsements: Dana: Newsreels from the UCLA Film & Television Archive Julia: The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf Stephen: Jan Lisiecki - Chopin: Complete Nocturnes Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Yesica Balderrama. Outro music: "The Red Light Special" by Matt Large. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows. You’ll also be supporting the work we do here on the Culture Gabfest. Sign up now at Slate.com/cultureplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.8	I'm Stephen McCaff, and this is the Slate culture gap that's dead ringer's
1:05.8	gynecological horror edition.
1:07.8	It's Wednesday, May 10, 2023.
1:10.8	On today's show, dead ringer's, it's a prestige TV remake of the classic David Kronerburg film.
1:15.8	This one stars Rachel Weiss as twin gynecologists with a plan to change the world for the better,
1:22.8	not so sure, it's on Amazon Prime.
1:25.8	And then the writers are on strike in Hollywood, and that means Hollywood has gone dark.
1:30.8	It certainly affects our show or will eventually.
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