![]() ![]() To give you a sense of the scale we’re talking about here, in the first episode, the team helps a thirty-something get a drivers license for the first time, and it starts digging deeper from there.Įrick Galindo is Snooze’s showrunner and editor Tan had worked on Galindo’s podcast series from last year, WILD , on which she served as senior producer and occasional secondary host. ![]() This production describes itself as a “show about things people put off, how they conquer them, but most importantly, how they conquer themselves.” Each episode sees Tan, along with her team of producers (dubbed the Snooze Squad), working with a different guests to come up with a plan to help them with a specific thing they’ve been procrastinating - and in doing so, they also deal with whatever larger thing is causing them to procrastinate in the first place. Hosted and created by Megan Tan, who deep indie podcast-heads might recall for her autobiographical show Millennial, this new LAist Studios release is part self-help, part- Queer Eye, part- Personal Best, and shot through with a colorful sensibility that’s devoted to keeping things upbeat and optimistic. If you’re looking for something light, fun, and fizzy (not to mention somewhat in conversation with the whole “reality TV meets podcasts” thing), Snooze is a breeze of a show that’ll serve you well. Other producers include Myrriah Gossett and Greta Stromquist. Executive producers are Jessica Cordova Kramer, Stephanie Wittels Wachs and Kasey Barrett, with Sele Leota. It’s surprising, engaging, and, in this political climate especially, an artifact of defiance.īeing Trans is available on all platforms. You’ll hear Chloe, the university administrator, attempt to figure out dating as a new transplant in Los Angeles. You’ll hear Sy, the nonbinary legal assistant, be made to process the fact that their partner, Robert, who Sy had been with since prior to transition, continues to identify as a straight man, kicking up a storm of challenging feelings. However Lemonada chooses to position Being Trans, the underlying reality is that it’s a great listen. ![]() Perhaps that’s not a sticky enough pitch for advertisers.īut I shouldn’t be a stickler for categories. At heart, Being Trans feels like a more specific evolution of the Radio Diaries concept: blown-up audio diaries that provide vivid windows into the ordinariness of extraordinary lives. One could argue that it harkens back to the earlier forms of the genre, a la 1971’s An American Family or the initial seasons of MTV’s Real World, or perhaps is more contiguous with the chiller Asian varieties, like Terrace House, but the fact of the matter is that the pitch feels imprecise within the contemporary Western context. The reality television framing simultaneously oversells and undersells Being Trans, mostly because the popular conception “reality television” these days is ultimately quite far from what the podcast actually delivers. (Relatedly, of all the podcast studios, Parcast is probably the best candidate to go full hog with the “reality television, but podcasting” framework, given its basic cable style and furious pace of production.) This is Dating comes to mind, along with its genre brethren LoveSick, from House of Pod, and Blind Dating, from Parcast. There are at least two other podcasts coming out this summer that attempt to position itself as an audio-first take on reality television, and meaningful efforts around the idea can already be found in podcast directories everywhere, especially in the relationships space. ![]() I’ve seen this concept pop up more lately. Produced by Lemonada Media ( Add to Cart, Believe Her) via its new sub-brand Being Studios, the show is being promoted as innovation in form - “reality television” meets podcasting, a framing that was central to a recent New York Times write-up about the production. As it says on the tin, the show is an effort to capture and present the day-to-day experiences of trans individuals as they go about their lives, and the debut season focuses on four such individuals who reside in Los Angeles: Sy-Clarke Chan, a nonbinary legal assistant Chloe Corcoran, a university administrator who’s a trans woman Jeffrey Jay, a standup comedian and a trans man and Mariana Marroquin, a trans woman originally from Guatemala. There’s a lot packed into each episode of Being Trans, a new spin on an old idea that’s admirable for what it’s trying to do. ![]()
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