Euphoria: Exploitation or Empowerment?
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Hello and welcome to this episode of The Rest Is Entertainment with me Marina Hyde and me Richard Osman.
Hello listeners, hello Marina. Hello Richard, how are you? Very well, I've got a glass of water, I've got a cup of tea, I've got my podcast partner with me. Yeah. What else could I ask for? Very, very little. In this world. And what should we talk about this week? What shall we talk about? What are we going to talk about? Like we haven't planned it.
Well, we've planned what we're going to talk about. We are going to talk about the return after, even by the standards of peak TV, quite a long hiatus, Euphoria.
And Euphoria is one of those shows that lots of people over here have never seen, but they can now see because of HBO Max. And it launched the careers of some of the biggest stars in the entire world. And... There's beef. There's plenty of beef. So we felt that ticked a number of boxes.
There's beef and bin fire, so we'll get there.
Beef and bin fire? Yeah. No, that's one of those, like a pub in Hoxton, isn't it?
The beef and bin fire.
I'd actually love to go there. Yeah, set up by four Eton venture capitalists.
speaking of venture capitalists we're also going to talk about a podcast which I've actually been listening to has not got a big audience has just been sold for low hundreds of millions of dollars it's only been going 18 months we'll talk about what it is and who bought it and how we could get our hands on low hundreds of millions of dollars Absolutely.
And we're going to talk about set security. There's all sorts of trouble on the Harry Potter set with drones kind of taking images of things. But the world of set security and script security and what companies do to protect their IP before it comes out. Yeah. Talking of IP before it comes out. No, because it came out last night. It came out last night. See, that's what you have turned into that you can do a link and I can't. I've lost my linkability. You've taken it from me.
There's only a fine amount of linkability that can't be created or destroyed. It can only be passed from one host to the other.
So every time you do a good link, I have to do a bad one straight afterwards.
Euphoria is one of those zeitgeist shows. Well, when it started, it's one of those zeitgeist shows that are kind of a long tradition of kind of transgressive shows about hey this is what teenagers are actually doing and what being a teenager is really like when they come out they instantly sort of make all the other mainstream shows look incredibly vanilla and kind of twee inscripted they're always darker and grittier which always means there's lots of drugs and sex and it comes in I mean I suppose like the early ones like that are things like Degrassi but then get more into something like Skins or 13 Reasons Why it's in the tradition of those shows that's
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:54
2
Why is Euphoria considered a cult classic?
3:54–8:13
3
What controversies surround the return of Euphoria's cast?
8:13–9:17
4
Why did Sam Altman buy a niche podcast for $200 million?
9:17–9:27
5
What security issues are impacting film sets today?
9:27–15:56
6
How does drone technology affect film production?
15:56–20:01
7
What legal actions are being taken against drone operators?
20:01–51:01