Eras Tour Docuseries (Eps 1 and 2 feat. Sarah from Taylor Swift Style)
Be There in Five
Kate Kennedy
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
This week, Kate welcomes back Sarah Chapelle (Taylor Swift Style) to discuss the first two episodes of Disney+'s The End of an Era docuseries. They dissect the emotional weight of episodes 1 and 2; from the devastating Vienna terror plot and Southport attack to Taylor's leadership style, bonus day generosity, and the physical toll of performing and beyond. Kate and Sarah analyze what the docuseries reveals about Taylor's collaborative process with her team, they predict future episodes (Miami costumes? Travis spotlight?), debate burning questions (Why no debut representation? Justice for YOYOK! What's the deal with the high-low ombre dress?), and explore whether the docuseries does a better job showing "the life of a showgirl" than the album itself. Overall, a thoughtful, detailed, and fun conversation about what makes this tour and this documentary still so compelling three years later. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the Be There in Five podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy, your host. This week we are talking about the docu series that aired on Disney Plus a couple days ago, December 12th, called the end of the, wait, what was it called? |
| 0:24.2 | The end of an era, end of the eras. The era's their ending. Well, let me look, hold on. |
| 0:29.7 | The end of an era, which dropped on Disney Plus this week. A lot of people complaining about how many ads they got during this. |
| 0:36.0 | And while you know, and I'll bring it up |
| 0:37.7 | every week if I have to, but I think the greed associated with charging for subscriber fees |
| 0:43.3 | and putting ads in shows is diabolical and must be stopped. But we've had a lot of episodes. |
| 0:50.6 | I mean, we're coming up on, well, no, we're past the three-year mark of the ERIS tour, being on our radar in our hearts and hopefully in our carts, but then out of our reach as we tried to get tickets for it and couldn't. |
| 1:02.6 | And the, you know, phenomenon that slowly like unveiled before our eyes, like, we knew it was going to be awesome, but we didn't know what it was. One of my |
| 1:11.8 | favorite memories is calling an emergency meeting to Patreon when we got this set list, because what |
| 1:15.5 | the fuck do you mean? She's singing in Marjorie? She's singing tolerated? Like, everything about |
| 1:21.2 | this tour, like, wasn't on our bingo card, but then became somewhat of a scorecard of cultural |
| 1:26.6 | capital to get to attend one, |
| 1:28.4 | became a bit of a yardstick for how I measured my days. If I wanted to, I could, but I won't, |
| 1:34.7 | because I have too many times before, I could cry thinking about being pregnant, very vulnerable, |
| 1:40.3 | and how sometimes I could only get through the day knowing that night I could sit in a tub |
| 1:46.1 | and watch shaky live stream with thousands of my enemies, quite frankly, too many comments, |
| 1:53.5 | and wait for the surprise songs and watch the same show I'd see a million times, |
| 1:57.8 | but I almost like was comforted and knew what to expect. It's kind of like, |
| 2:02.5 | are you going to make fun of somebody for watching baseball over and over and over, you know, |
| 2:07.7 | different teams, different day, different vibes, different energy, different plays. Kind of see |
| 2:12.8 | it as the same thing. Like every show was a little bit different, even though like the format was |
| 2:16.6 | kind of the same. It's so funny to me to think about, like, yeah, I brought a Roku to labor and delivery |
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