Show overview
Don't Explain has published 3 episodes during 2022. That works out to roughly 3 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a near-daily cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 57 min and 1h 7m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. The publisher flags most episodes as explicit, so expect adult themes or strong language throughout. It is catalogued as a EN-language Arts show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 3.6 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by Dog and Pony Show Audio.
From the publisher
Every lazy trope started as an innovation. This is that story.Will Sattelberg brings you the journey behind the cliches we know by heart in this series from Dog and Pony Show Audio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Latest Episodes
S1 Ep 3Get On Up, Straight Outta Compton, Bohemian Rhapsody (Rockstar Biopics Part 3)
EIn the years following Walk Hard's release, Hollywood struggles to produce rockstar biopics that can attract critics or audiences. It's not until three films, each buoyed by up-and-coming actors trying to cement their place in cinema history, can the genre finally make it's comeback.On the season finale of Don't Explain, the rockstar biopic is reborn, with flashier filmmaking, bigger performances, and centered around some of the most famous performances of all time. From box office bombs all the way to earning nearly a billion dollars at the box office.Get on Up, Straight Outta Compton, Bohemian Rhapsody. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S1 Ep 2Ray, Walk The Line, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Rockstar Biopics Part 2)
EWhat happens when two films stuck in development hell for more than a decade finally make their way to the silver screen? Money, critical acclaim, and ultimately, the complete destruction of the rockstar biopic as we know it.On this episode of Don't Explain, we watch as Hollywood strikes gold by telling the stories of some of the best musicians of mid-20th century America, only for a single film to tear it all to the ground.Ray, Walk the Line, and Walk Hard. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S1 Ep 1Lady Sings The Blues, The Buddy Holly Story, 8 Mile (Rockstar Biopics Part 1)
EThis is Don't Explain. Every time you go to the theater, you're experience an onslaught of movie tropes. Every romantic comedy has the down-on-her-luck best friend. Every action movie has the badass one-liners. Every Oscar-bait drama has that tear-jerker ending.But where do those tropes come from? How do audiences become so aware of Hollywood's bag of tricks, parody movies can become a massive genre on their own?This season explores the birth, death, and rebirth of one of the most successful cinematic genres ever: the rockstar biopic. In this episode, we start from the beginning, focusing on the earliest established tropes of the genre.Lady Sings the Blues, The Buddy Holly Story, and 8 Mile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.