Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Shonda Rhimes…and Borat’s Crimes In my experience, all television screenwriters who started their careers in the 2000s have a PhD in Shonda Rhimes. This, of course, includes Duana who is a TV writer and a total nerd and can probably give a Ted Talk on Shonda because Shonda is the standard. So we’re By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 01:15 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: (Oval) Office Love and Breaking Kate Tonight is The West Wing reunion on HBO Max. It is not available here in Canada and, well, as West Wing nerds, Duana and I are pretty salty about it. That said, the return (for one night) of The West Wing has served up an interesting work and culture dilemma: By Lainey • Oct 15, 2020 02:52 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Hollywood’s Newest Job & Chris Rock’s Next Era We are back at work on Show Your Work and on this new episode, we’re talking about a new job on Hollywood sets. But first, there’s this Instagram post from the set of Riverdale: I mean, I think we should all know by now that mouthwash doesn’t By Lainey • Sep 30, 2020 02:26 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Dolly Parton and the work of Phone Sex But not at the same time. Duana and I are indeed talking about Dolly Parton on this episode of Show Your Work and we are talking about phone sex but we are not talking about Dolly Parton doing phone sex, relax. That said, I think she’d be good at By Lainey • Aug 19, 2020 03:23 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Emmys and Ellen I couldn’t wait to talk to Duana for this week’s episode about the Emmys after the Television Academy and Jimmy Kimmel announced that the ceremony would be virtual. Duana’s produced a lot of live award television and the work that’s happening right now behind the scenes By Lainey • Aug 05, 2020 02:51 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The “Jung”-ian Art of the Celebrity Profile On this episode of Show Your Work, Duana and I celebrate the work of E Alex Jung whose celebrity profiles we have discussed multiple times on our podcast and who I have gushed over consistently. Two of EAJ’s profiles have gotten a lot of attention recently: his piece on By Lainey • Jul 22, 2020 03:48 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: About Your Work As promised last week, this new episode of Show Your Work is all about YOUR work. As we’ve seen from Hollywood work, many work issues are relatable across industries, whether you’re a production manager on a film or a project manager for the launch of a new product By Lainey • Jul 08, 2020 02:55 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Racism and the Barriers to Creativity After last week’s episode about workplace inequality pegged to Lea Michele and her behaviour on Glee (and on other projects), we received an email from a listener called Ashley who wondered whether or not, on top of the fact that Hollywood, like most industries, prioritises earnings above everything else, By Lainey • Jun 17, 2020 01:02 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: How Hollywood Can – And Must – Change Anti-Black Racism On Set Thank you so much for your comments and thoughts on our last episode featuring Kathleen Newman-Bremang, ‘Working While Black’. We’re glad it resonated with so many of you, and we intend to continue doing the work of unpacking and dismantling the embedded policies, procedures, and assumptions that have fueled By Duana • Jun 11, 2020 02:19 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Working While Black For many Black people in Hollywood, much of the work they’ve been doing over the last week is defending their right to exist with dignity and protesting police anti-Black racism and violence. As Kendrick Sampson (Insecure) told The Hollywood Reporter, “Most of the organizers that I know have had By Lainey • Jun 03, 2020 02:56 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Last Dance was a Rom-Com On this episode of Show Your Work, now that The Last Dance has concluded, Duana and I unpack all the work that went into those Chicago Bulls championships and the work that did – or didn’t – go into this docuseries. No doubt it was entertaining. And it was definitely super By Lainey • May 27, 2020 02:26 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Michelle, Adele, and the Food Fight As mentioned earlier this week, on this episode of Show Your Work, Duana and I get into the whole Alison Roman situation after her interview with The New Consumer went viral for her remarks about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo. But let’s begin with the real work stars of By Lainey • May 13, 2020 02:42 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Tracee and Maitreyi On this episode of Show Your Work, Duana declares her post-pandemic dream. She’s already made the request with all our friends that this is what she wants for her birthday, in August, when hopefully the lockdown restrictions will have been lifted and we can actually go on a joyride By Lainey • May 06, 2020 02:55 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Last Dance and Taylor tries to dunk I always love recording the Show Your Work podcast but I was having more fun than usual this episode because Duana had to talk sports with me which is not usually where she lives. She also had to endure all my sports puns. And while she didn’t enjoy the By Lainey • Apr 29, 2020 02:49 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: A Celebrity Lockdown Report Card Now that we’re five weeks or so into sheltering at home, we thought we’d do a report card style discussion on three celebrities and assess their work during this time. Who gets a barely passing grade? Who’s meeting expectations? And who’s trampling over the expectations and By Lainey • Apr 22, 2020 03:50 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Do you wonder about Gal Gadot? On this episode of Show Your Work, Duana begins with a question: does Beyoncé have a “quarantine voice” – and this kicked off a disagreement. Because while Duana thinks that Beyoncé is “just like us” (first of all, how DARE you?) and is going to Target behind a mask FOR THE By Lainey • Apr 15, 2020 03:27 pm
