Culture Gabfest: The Creator of Succession Takes on the Broligarchy Edition

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On this week’s show, longtime hosts Julia, Stephen, and Dana are all together in-person to talk about Mountainhead, the new HBO Max movie from Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession. Then, they dig into the new Amazon Prime series Overcompensating. Finally, they talk about the new PR junket, full of spicy food and odd quizzes, inspired by this Vulture article by Nicholas Quah.

Endorsements:

Dana: The Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt.

Julia: Restauranteur Keith McNally’s memoir, I Regret Almost Everything.

Stephen: Sarah Beckwith’s piece in The New Yorker, “Returning to the Scene of My Brutal Rape.” and the novel 2666 by Roberto Bolaño.

Podcast production by Benjamin Frisch.

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