The Franchise Series Premiere: Look, Up in the Sky!

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Richard, Chris, and Hillary go up, up, and away with HBO’s newest comedy, which details the dysfunction behind the scenes of a Marvel-esque would-be blockbuster. Plus, showrunner John Brown and executive producer Armando Iannucci stop by to chat about satirizing comic-book movies from a place of affection.

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0:00.0	Hey podcast listeners, I'm Chris Morocco, the food director of Bonapete and Epicureus and the host of Dinner
0:07.6	SOS. Every week on Dinner SOS, we answer listeners questions about what's going on in their kitchens and that first hint of fall in the air means we're thinking about Thanksgiving and we want to help you out on the air.
0:22.0	Are you bored with your same old turkey preparation? Can't
0:25.5	figure out what to bring for your Friends Giving celebration or maybe you're
0:29.5	experimenting with a new cuisine this year. Whatever your Thanksgiving question is,
0:34.4	dinner SOS can help.
0:36.0	Email us your question at dinner SOS at bonapatit.com.
0:42.0	We just might feature it on the show. Is it any swearing you'd like to do beforehand or shit wit?
0:54.8	Cop Tangled money fascist.
0:57.1	Such an imagination.
0:59.1	Hello and welcome to still watching a weekly television
1:01.6	podcast from Vanity Fair.
1:03.0	I'm Hillary Bussis.
1:04.0	I'm Chris Murphy.
1:05.0	And I'm Richard Lawson.
1:06.1	We're here to discuss HBO's new Sunday night comedy, The franchise.
1:10.4	The first episode is called Scene 31A, Tecto, meets I.
1:14.8	Centurios 2 is our tent pole.
1:17.0	What?
1:18.0	Without our tent pole, we don't have a tent.
1:20.0	And without a tent, we get eaten in our sleep by nine-year-old
1:22.6	Tik-tock kids with superhero fatigue, which is not a real illness and a scam.
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