Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work MASTER CLASS: Taylor Jenkins Reid By now you’ve heard about Daisy Jones & The Six, the sixth book from author Taylor Jenkins Reid, either because of its six weeks and counting on the NYT bestseller list, or because it’s currently being adapted into an Amazon limited series by Reese Witherspoon, or because yes, By Duana • Apr 24, 2019 01:16 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work LIVE: Beyoncé Homecoming Edition If you’re on the internet at all today, #BeyoncéHomecoming is all there is, but just in case you’re somehow avoiding all of it except this post, SPOILERS abound below: Lainey and I are joined by very special guest/official provider of waterworks Kathleen for what might be our By Duana • Apr 17, 2019 03:09 pm
Game of Thrones Show Your Work: The want and the need of Game of Thrones But first… We spend the first few minutes of this latest episode of Show Your Work stressing over #BeyoncéHomecoming. This is a Beyoncé documentary by Beyoncé about the work of Beyoncé. This is pretty much why our podcast even exists. So, of course, we will be dedicating a special episode By Lainey • Apr 10, 2019 12:49 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Cardi B’s old hustle and Zack Morris's old manager On this week’s episode of Show Your Work, we indulge in some hair talk because Duana is currently wearing the hairstyle of the moment, it looks so good on her, and it really is a high degree of difficulty that Sandra Oh is also pulling off beautifully. After that, By Lainey • Apr 03, 2019 04:09 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The View of Kit Harington’s hair We mentioned Brian Stelter’s book, Top of the Morning, a lot on the Show Your Work podcast. And now Duana and I can’t wait to read what will likely be our next frequent reference text, Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View by Ramin Setoodeh, By Lainey • Mar 27, 2019 03:42 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: College Scams and Old Magic I am bigging up my colleague: Duana’s post on the college admissions scam last week was the most comprehensive piece on the scandal because, as she has since shared, she’s been studying schools and applications and elite admissions for 25 years. If she has a PhD in anything, By Lainey • Mar 20, 2019 11:32 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Oprah, Gayle, and Jada’s media takeover Thank you for your messages over the last week requesting commentary on Leaving Neverland and Michael Jackson. We decided to hold it for Show Your Work and have a full-bodied discussion. That said, if there was any doubt in my mind about the documentary – and there wasn’t – I would By Lainey • Mar 13, 2019 01:23 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: How To Be Joe Zee Part 2 Thanks so much for all your feedback on Part 1 of our conversation with Joe Zee last week! As we mentioned, he gave us so much great work, and he’s shown us so much amazing work, that we couldn’t keep it to one episode. So here’s Part By Lainey • Mar 06, 2019 09:52 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: How To Be Joe Zee You guys. We have been so excited to share this episode with you, and it’s only the first of two delicious, long, fast-as-hell-paced deep-dive conversations with the incredible Joe Zee. Part of the reason we started Show Your Work is because, especially (but not only) in show business, people By Duana • Feb 27, 2019 01:54 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Brie Larson Puts Money Where Captain Marvel’s Mouth Is It’s the week of the OSCARS! We’ve been doing this for a while, so we didn’t expect to be quite this excited, but between the honest-to-goodness race, the who-knows-what’s-gonna-happen, and Lainey’s new friend who might go with us to LA (check out her Instagram to By Duana • Feb 20, 2019 12:09 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: How Sean Penn is Like The Worst Kanye We’re back! Thanks for bearing with us during our unscheduled break due to various Crimes Of Winter. After a quick announcement about some big moves in my appearance (Megalyn Echikunwoke was the actress I couldn’t think of here, btw), we get to the truth – the balmy weather of By Duana • Feb 13, 2019 03:14 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: What Would Samuel L Jackson Do At Fyre Fest? I know that sounds like something out of a drug-induced dream, but honestly, isn’t that what Fyre Fest was? Like everyone else, we gorged ourselves on the Netflix documentary Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened and whether you watched this one or the competing doc on Hulu, you’ By Duana • Jan 23, 2019 12:37 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: How Patty Jenkins made the Best Chris As noted last week a couple of times in What Else, we wanted to take some time to process and reflect before addressing Lifetime’s Surviving R Kelly docuseries. Thanks for your emails and tweets about it. We want to be sensitive about how to contribute and add to the By Lainey • Jan 16, 2019 11:27 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Emily and John, Hollywood’s New Power Couple? Duana and I recorded this week’s episode of Show Your Work on Monday, right after our Golden Globes all-nighter. And we could have kept going. This is award season – there’s so much to unpack! We start with the show itself, inside baseball on the production value and why By Lainey • Jan 09, 2019 11:43 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Work of Writing Part 2 Last month, we posted our first mini-episode on the Work of Writing and we are following up with Part 2, featuring New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch. Duana and I talk to Allison about her work as a magazine writer early in her career and making the transition By Lainey • Jan 02, 2019 12:48 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: the work of Michelle Obama Michelle Obama’s book, Becoming, is the bestselling hardcover of 2018 – and it was only released a month ago. Probably many of you have asked for it for Christmas and you’ll be reading it over the holidays. Perfect. Read it and then listen to this episode because while it’ By Lainey • Dec 19, 2018 11:59 am