It’s been a strange and harrowing year, and podcasts have mostly followed suit. nwquah picks the best of 2020 so far
It’s been a strange and harrowing year, and the podcasts have mostly followed suit. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Courtesy of the Studios Back when the country started locking down — to the extent that it would, anyway — there had been some concern that podcasting was going to be hard hit by the loss of the daily commute and the general flow of daily life. That didn’t turn out to be the case.
Dead Eyes Around the turn of the millennium, Connor Ratliff was cast on the critically acclaimed HBO drama Band of Brothers. It was a small role, but for a working actor, all roles are valuable. But before Ratliff could make it to the set, he was called back to re-audition for Tom Hanks, who was an executive producer on the project. He ended up losing the part — later, he would be told Hanks thought he had “dead eyes.” Decades later, Ratliff would create a podcast about the experience.
My Year in Mensa Let’s say you have an exclusive, insular, and somewhat known group whose membership is defined by “unnatural intelligence.” What would you expect from the group’s internal social dynamics? From the way it views itself? You’ll get those answers from My Year in Mensa, an endlessly fascinating four-part podcast from comedian and writer Jamie Loftus.
Reply All’s “The Case of the Missing Hit” Photo: Courtesy of Gimlet Obsession runs rampant in this instantly legendary episode of Reply All, already a show with quite a few of them. In “The Case of the Missing Hit,” the team is contacted by a filmmaker looking for help to track down a song that may or may not exist.
Slow Burn season 4 I’ll be honest: I was a little disappointed when I heard that Slow Burn was heading back to politics for its fourth season, after the podcast successfully expanded the idea of what it could be with Joel Anderson’s fantastic revisiting of the Biggie-Tupac saga. And yet, the return to politics has been nothing short of an absolute scorcher.
Welcome to LA I can’t overstate how much I love this show. Written and produced by David Weinberg, Welcome to LA is essentially a series of love letters to the City of Angels, with each story — some reported, some as memoir — capturing something fundamental about the nature and feeling of that place. There’s an episode set in an old restaurant that stretches out across time and space.
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