We Disrupt This Broadcast

<p>In our season 3 finale, Peabody Executive Director Jeffrey Jones goes deep with the legendary, 5x Peabody Award-winning showrunner, creator, and writer Vince Gilligan to discuss his enigmatic Apple TV+ series <em>Pluribus</em>. In the series, curmudgeonly author Carol Sturka is one of the lone humans unaffected by a mysterious virus which has turned the rest of humanity into a strangely-upbeat collective hive mind referred to as the “Others.” In an unusual twist to the post-apocalyptic genre,

<p>In this episode, we’ve got major <em>Beef.</em> Host Gabe González chats with Lee Sung Jin, creator and writer of Netflix’s wildly popular, critically acclaimed <em>Beef</em>. They discuss why this season’s key theme is the Buddhist and Hindu term “samsara,” how challenging it is to find inter-class solidarity within the confines of capitalism, and the ways Korean billionaires are similar and different to American billionaires. Then, executive director of the Peabodys, Jeffrey Jones, speaks w

<p>Join us on this episode as we highlight Crave and HBO Max’s Peabody Award-winning Canadian sensation <em>Heated Rivalry</em>, the steamy queer love story that blew up a million group chats. In a wide-ranging conversation, host Gabe González speaks with <em>Heated Rivalry</em>’s creator, director, and writer Jacob Tierney about trusting the source material, why some of the most original shows come from Canada, the importance of showing consent and a little humor in sex scenes, and the radical

<p>Today, we’re falling in love with the empathetic, bittersweet Peabody Award-winning Netflix series <em>Forever</em>, a refreshing update to the Judy Blume classic, now set in Los Angeles with two Black leads. In our conversation, host Gabe González and showrunner and creator Mara Brock Akil dig into the legacy and revived fandom of her first series <em>Girlfriends</em>, the importance of apprenticeship and craft in TV, and why she wanted to update <em>Forever</em> for today’s Black families,

<p>Today, we’re delving into the complex realities and cultural commentary about the state of motherhood in America as we examine the twisty crime thriller, <em>All Her Fault</em>. Caty Borum, the pod’s Executive Producer and Executive Director for The Center for Media & Social Impact, speaks with series creator Megan Gallagher about giving voice to the nuanced cultural shame often imposed on working mothers in the United States – through the lens of a soapy drama and crime whodunnit. Later, Cat

<p>Join us as we get hot and bothered for women’s autonomy through the Peabody Award-winning series <em>Dying for Sex</em>. In this episode, <em>We Disrupt This Broadcast</em>’s own resident expert, media scholar, professor, and Executive Director of Center for Media & Social Impact Caty Borum speaks with the creators, producers, and showrunners of the 9x Emmy Award-nominated series, Kim Rosenstock and Liz Meriwether. Together, they unpack the ways <em>Dying for Sex</em> breaks every taboo aroun

<p>In this episode, we’re playing with reality as we explore what’s going on behind the scenes of the Peabody Award-winning reality TV comedy, <em>Jury Duty</em>. In our interview with creator Lee Eisenberg and executive producer Nicholas Hatton, we discuss this highly staged reality series where only one person, the “hero,” is their authentic self. Everyone else is an actor, and all of the interactions are scripted and planned in service of telling a unique and uplifting story of one person det

<p>In this episode, the first of our Legendary Disruptors series, we celebrate ‘90s comedy icon Keenen Ivory Wayans and the legacy of <em>In Living Color</em>, the revolutionary sketch series on FOX, how it centered the Black American experience, and its impact on comedy and culture. We dig into how Wayans hired the writers and performers who would become legends, the way he used satire to upend stereotypes, and his refusal to water down the show for white audiences and skittish network executiv