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This Week In Streaming: Telemarketers

Decoding TV

David Chen

Tv & Film, Unknown, Netflix, Tv, Television, Streaming, Recap, Hulu, Fx, Hbo, Max

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

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This Week In Streaming is a show on the Decoding TV podcast feed that covers the most interesting shows available on streaming each week. This week, David Chen and Patrick Klepek discuss the three-part HBO docuseries Telemarketers, which is streaming right now on Max.

Telemarketers is about two former telemarketers who witness the corruption and exploitation of one telemarketing firm in particular, Civic Development Group (CDG), and make it their life’s mission to try and take the company—and the industry—down. Its sprawling narrative eventually becomes about the making of the documentary itself. Its appeal is largely driven by the two personalities at its center. But did this format work for us? What does Telemarketers have to say about the telemarketing industry and about our society’s ability to change it? And how does it fit in with the current documentary environment overall? Listen to us discuss all this and more!

Next week, Patrick and David will discuss How To With John Wilson Season 3. When possible, we will broadcast the episode live on YouTube, so be sure to follow us there. Thanks for being a paid subscriber!

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Thanks to everyone at decodingtv who makes this podcast possible.

0:30.7

Hello everyone and welcome to this week in streaming a decoding TV podcast.

0:41.3

I am David Chen. I'm Patrick Lovek.

0:44.3

Each week this week in streaming will cover a show that's new and interesting in the world of

0:48.7

streaming. We'll tell you if it's worth watching and if it is we'll review and spoil and

0:51.9

discuss the entire season of the show. Today we're going to be discussing in its entirety the three

0:56.8

part HBO docuseries telemarketers. Next week we'll be covering how to with John Wilson season three

1:04.2

also in its entirety. These are relatively short TV shows. That's why we didn't do like a premiere

1:09.2

review and then do the whole season review. Telemarketers is three parts how to jump

1:14.6

Wilson I think six episodes each half hour long. So we will look forward to discussing these with

1:20.9

you here at decodingtv and this week in streaming. Find more episodes of this podcast at podcast.deco.tv.

1:27.2

And find us across all platforms, Instagram, threads, TikTok at decodingtv.

1:32.9

I also want to mention Patrick Lovek. You may have noticed it's a little bit of an

1:40.1

odd time in Hollywood right now. An odd and difficult time given that there is a simultaneous

1:47.8

writers and actors strike going on. We fully support what the writers and actors are trying to do.

1:55.2

But a lot of stuff in the TV and film schedule is changing all the time. It's a very fluid

1:59.8

situation. So the next six months are a little bit unclear in terms of what is going to happen

2:07.4

and what we're going to be covering. However, I do want to mention that I did make a post over at

2:12.3

the decodingtv newsletter, which you can find at decodingtv.com. Just asking folks what you want us

2:19.2

to cover. What are you watching? What are you interested in having us discuss here on decoding tv?

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