Still Watching: Super Pumped, The Dropout, WeCrashed

Still Watching

Vanity Fair

Arts

4.2 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The world works in certain ways until a new great idea comes along and changes everything.
0:07.0	We need a name.
0:09.0	We...
0:10.0	We live.
0:11.0	We dream.
0:12.0	We work.
0:13.0	I'm Travis Kalanick, and I will never back down from the fight.
0:17.0	And no one wants to believe in me.
0:19.0	I'll make them believe by being undeniable.
0:22.0	These kids don't overthink. They don't get bogged down about the way things have always been done.
0:26.0	They want to change things now!
0:28.0	Hello, my name is Richard Lawson.
0:30.0	I'm the Chief Critic at Vanity Fair, and I will be your host for the new season of Still Watching.
0:35.0	We're doing it a bit different this season because we're going to be covering three shows that are all closely linked in theme.
0:41.0	We have...
0:42.0	We crashed about the fall of we work.
0:44.0	We have the dropout about the fall of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes.
0:48.0	And we have Super Pumped, which isn't really about the fall of Uber exactly, but maybe it's about the fall of Travis Kalanick.
0:54.0	So lots of falls, but lots of rises before the falls happen.
0:57.0	And we just think that these three stories are so pertinent to the way that technology and online culture have blended into real-life culture.
1:07.0	They just have a lot to say about where we are as a society, I guess you could say.
1:13.0	And to further the discussion, it won't just be monologuing.
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