SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY and FRESH MEAT PILOT: Reviewed!
Let’s go cultural content consumption appraisal hour heads! One of us has a pilot episode of a sitcom from over ten years ago on the menu and the other has a near two-and-a-half-hour performance from a rock and roll legend from a few years ago to feast on.
We have a lot of feelings about these things. Let’s get into our feelings. Let’s unpack them. Let’s analyse and assess our relationship with culture via these works. Let’s get up to speed with these cultural artefacts and then slow it down, subverting our modern day tendency to mindlessly consume without processing or engaging. This episode reflects where we are at with our respective cultural educations in our lives. On this week and on this day: this Thursday the 8th of August. Enjoy the show.
Here is Bruce Springsteen’s “Springsteen on Broadway” which is no longer on Broadway (sadly, for your fomo-riddled boy) but is now on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80232329
Here is the Wikipedia for Springsteen on Broadway, which will help you (dearest of dear listeners) sift through some of the factoids we discuss and potentially locate our errors before we do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springsteen_on_Broadway
This is the director of Springsteen on Broadway (and the director of the majority of Springsteen’s film work) Thom Zimny discussing this film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ep4NfMRRpE
This is Bruce Springsteen performing the song “My Hometown” which is discussed on the pod. This is a special performance recorded for the 2018 Tony awards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU5ZvcvLfc4
Here is Jesse Armstrong’s pilot for “Fresh Meat” which is no longer on Channel 4 but is now on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/watch/70231771
This is a 10th anniversary Fresh Meat Q&A that was held at the British Film Institute a couple of years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=597X7AgB7Mk
Here is Jesse Armstrong and his writing partner Sam Bain (the pair also created and wrote Peep Show! This isn’t even an easter egg folks, this is on the verge of getting pitched on a weekly basis) discussing writing comedy for television: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-01rh4yNb5U
The Glasgow Guardian wrote up an ode to Fresh Meat: https://glasgowguardian.co.uk/2022/09/20/an-ode-to-channel-4s-fresh-meat/
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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT:
CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY:
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/early-daze/1744220609
JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:
https://www.netflix.com/watch/80211559
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