[BONUS] Why Everything Feels Life or Death Now

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Taylor Lorenz’s Power User

Taylor Lorenz

134 episodes

3 days ago

Taylor Lorenz explores how technology and the internet are upending our lives and the world around us. Each week, she explores everything from online fame to emerging platforms, viral phenomena, the creator economy, and much more. Tune in every Wednesday for regular episodes and every Friday for "Free Speech Friday," her series on tech policy and the fight for civil liberties online.

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[BONUS] Why Everything Feels Life or Death Now

Taylor Lorenz’s Power User

27 minutes 46 seconds

1 week ago

[BONUS] Why Everything Feels Life or Death Now

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Why has everyone become so obsessed with game shows where the losers die!? Over the past decade, “The Hunger Games” became a multibillion-dollar media franchise. Netflix’s “Squid Game” took off, and MrBeast's challenges are growing increasingly deadly.

Teddy Brown is a freelance writer for the New Yorker. He wrote a fantastic review of The Running Man, a movie starring Glen Powell where game show contestants must survive 30 days while being hunted down by professional assassins.

He has been studying our obsession with deadly game shows. He joined me to chart the rise of deadly entertainment and discuss what the shifting stakes of game shows reveals about the current state of culture, the national mood, and where entertainment is heading.

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