Rolling Stone chief television critic Alan Sepinwall on writing about “Succession,” nailing a series finale, and the Star Wars universe

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🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Episode 304 of the Sports Media Podcast features Rolling Stone chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall. In this podcast, Sepinwall discusses his writing process; the importance of a series finale; how he puts together recaps for shows such as “Succession” and “Barry”; the value of seeing the show in advance; whether it is smart to predict what happens to characters when writing recaps; writing about “The Sopranos” and “Mad Men”; whether he wants to hear from the people he writes about; dealing with PR people; how he thinks about the Star Wars universe and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.1	Hey everybody. This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer Patrick Antonetti. One guest on this week's podcast, and a little something different, but I think you will enjoy it. Alan Seppenwald is Rolling Stone's chief TV critic. He writes just brilliant pieces when it comes to the shows of the moment that you're watching.
0:57.8	He's currently just on an incredible run when it comes to his pieces on succession,
1:03.8	which is what the focus of most of our conversation is in this podcast.
1:08.1	If you like Barry, he's been all over that.
1:10.4	And then obviously previous his work on the Sopranos,
1:14.3	Game of Thrones, Mad Men, The Wire, Star Wars.
1:19.2	If you're a television fan, you probably know who Alan Seppinwall is.
1:22.7	He's one of the great writers out there when it comes to this stuff.
1:26.3	And we go pretty deep just on his process, how he puts together a succession,
1:30.4	reviews, what he thinks about when he's doing these kind of reviews on television.
1:35.4	How important is it to stick the landing when it comes to a series finale?
1:39.2	And we get into Mad Men and the Wire and Breaking Bad, etc.
1:56.4	And then we end on some talk on the Star Wars universe and just how we or how he sees all the various new Star Wars projects that are out there.
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