Culture Gabfest - Will Industry Succeed Succession?
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s show, Rebecca Onion and Jenny Zhang fill in for Stephen. First, the panel tackles HBO’s Industry. The show is in its third season and has seen a huge increase in viewership. But is it a show worth of the coveted Sunday night timeslot? Then, they explore Alien: Romulus, a new addition to Xenomorph lore, with a controversial cameo. Finally, the panel talks about Sephora, beauty culture and tweens in a conversation inspired by Jia Tolentino’s new essay What Tweens Get from Sephora and What They Get From Us.
On this week’s exclusive Slate Plus bonus episode, the panel talks about watching horror movies as a critic.
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Endorsements:
REBECCA: Two endorsements: First, Health and Safety: A Breakdown by Emily Witt. This memoir from a New Yorker writer is a fascinating look at “changing perceptions of life.” Second, pistachio milk. It’s tasty.
JULIA: This week’s Hang Up and Listen marks the end of an era. “What a gift this show has been.”
DANA: The Review of Beauty, a substack from Jessica Delfino. Dana knows she may have endorsed it in the past, but given the third topic this week it is too fitting to not mention it again.
Podcast production by Jared Downing. Production assistance by Kat Hong.
Hosts
Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, Rebecca Onion, Jenny Zhang
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dana Stevens, and this is the Slate Culture Gabfest Will Industry |
| 0:14.3 | Succeed Succession Edition. It's Wednesday August 21st, 2024 and on this |
| 0:19.0 | week's show we will talk about the HBO TV series industry which just started its third season. |
| 0:24.5 | The new science fiction slash horror film Alien Romulus which is the seventh entry |
| 0:29.3 | in the now 45 year old alien franchise. |
| 0:32.8 | And finally, an essay in the New Yorker that asks, |
| 0:35.2 | what is the Beauty Store franchise |
| 0:36.9 | Sephora and beauty and skin care culture in general |
| 0:39.9 | doing to our tweens? |
| 0:42.2 | I'm joined today live in this late studio by Julia Turner, a fellow at the |
| 0:45.8 | Annenberg School in Los Angeles. Hey Julia, hello, hello. In the same room once again. |
| 0:50.7 | Very exciting. It's such a treat. So we have a couple of guests |
| 0:53.6 | this week because Steve is out for our first topic the HBO series |
| 0:57.2 | industry we're going to be joined by slate senior editor Jenny |
| 1:00.0 | Jean. Hey Jenny., happy to be here. |
| 1:03.0 | Thanks for coming on. |
| 1:04.0 | So glad to finally have you on the show. |
| 1:05.0 | Very exciting. |
| 1:06.0 | When industry premiered on HBO in 2020, |
| 1:10.0 | just before shutting down production for a couple years because of COVID, it gained a small |
| 1:14.2 | but enthusiastic audience, but it struggled to distinguish itself from the far more broadly talked |
| 1:19.0 | about HBO's show, Succession. |
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