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The episode discusses The Devil Wears Prada 2, BEEF season 2, and the New York Times' best living songwriters package.

This week, Julia Turner and Dana Stevens are joined by Slate’s own Rebecca Onion to discuss The Devil Wears Prada 2, BEEF season 2, and the NYT’s best living songwriters package with Slate’s music critic Carl Wilson.  Twenty years on, we return to the world of The Devil Wears Prada. In the sequel, Andy, Anne Hathaway’s character, must save Runway Magazine from the forces of capital, who are selling the Vogue-analogue for parts, as Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly struggles to hang on to her own power. The movie has a lot to say about the state of journalism and media with plot lines seemingly ripped from the gossip pages, but does it all come together in the edit? We discuss.  Then, the second season of A24’s anthology series BEEF stars Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan as a volatile millennial couple who enter into a feud with a younger couple, played by Cailee Spaeny and Charles Melton. Set at a rich Californian golf resort and its environs, the show satirizes class and generational resentments as the characters scramble to claim the scraps of their betters at the expense of everyone else. The characters are mostly unlikeable, and the premise might be a little less…

People in this episode

Hosts: Julia Turner, Dana Stevens

Guests: Rebecca Onion, Carl Wilson

Topics covered

• The Devil Wears Prada
• BEEF
• living songwriters
• media
• class satire
• journalism

Keywords

• The Devil Wears Prada 2
• BEEF
• New York Times
• living songwriters
• journalism
• media
• class satire

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Times

Books & works: The Devil Wears Prada 2, BEEF, The 30 Greatest Living Songwriters

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