Introducing: RESCUE
A podcast series that marvels at the sheer magnitude of the human spirit and the lengths we will go to preserve the most sacred of things –...
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Spectacle: An Unscripted History of Reality TV
Reality TV is dismissed as guilty pleasure, low brow... even trash. But whether you want to admit it or not, you probably have heard of Snooki, Lisa Vanderpump or Kim Kardashian. Over the pa...
Episodes
20 of 45 episodesThe Dark Secrets of the "White Devil" - Witness Smoke Screen: Betrayal on the Bayou
Betrayal on the Bayou is a podcast about a former DEA agent Chad Scott, who for almost two decades, stopped at nothing to put drug dealers b...
Unmasking the Spectacle: Draptomaniax Reveals Untold Stories of Black History
From Dean of Black Twitter, Michael Harriot, comes a Black history podcast like you've never heard before. Using a recipe that includes deta...
Step into the Dark Side of Hollywood: Experience Death on The Lot
This season, we’re getting into 1950s Hollywood, ground zero for a cultural transformation that would upend every aspect of Americans’ lives...
Introducing Smoke Screen: Deadly Cure
Smoke Screen: Deadly Cure is a podcast about a family on the fringe who convinced tens of thousands of people across the globe to buy a mira...
Introducing: Death of an Artist
Sharing a preview of a new Sony Music Entertainment and Pushkin podcast, Death of the Artist. For more than 35 years, accusations of murder...
True Crime | 12. True Crime, Glass of Wine, Bed by 9 -- A White Lady Obsession
True crime podcasts have developed a devoted female following. It’s made fun of in SNL skits and coined cutesy phrases on t-shirts like “tru...
True Crime | 11. Forensic Files, CSI and the Peddling of Junk Science
This week on Spectacle, forensic sciences. Shows like CSI or Forensic Files make us believe that fingerprints, bite marks or tool marks can...
True Crime | 10. Is Prestige True Crime Sensationalizing Real Pain?
If you’re turned on any streaming channel, from Netflix to Hulu to HBO Max, true crime dominates. As of late, what’s especially popular are...
True Crime | 9. The Feminist Fantasy of Law & Order: SVU
It's not often that cases get the justice they deserve, unfortunately. But in the Law & Order: SVU universe, victims always get justice deli...
True Crime | 8. Soledad O'Brien Highlighting 'Black & Missing' Women
On this week’s episode of Spectacle, our obsession with certain missing women. When Gabby Petito disappeared in September 2021, the world we...
True Crime | 7. From Dirty John to Anna ‘Delvey’ -- why we love a good con
From tech bro scammers to fake heiresses, there’s a scammer story for everyone... nearly everywhere. In this week’s episode, Host Mariah Smi...
True Crime | 6. Citizen Sleuthing Gone Good… and Bad
In this week’s episode, host Mariah Smith digs into the phenomenon of citizen sleuths. It’s nothing new but with the internet, it’s exploded...
True Crime | 5. If It Bleeds, It Leads
When you turn on the nightly news, what usually leads? Often… It’s violence. A shooting. A 5-car pileup. The portrait of a missing girl. Som...
True Crime | 4. Keith Morrison on How Dateline Cracked the True Crime Code
In its 30 years and counting, the news magazine show Dateline has created an unbeatable formula for true crime. Its mysteries are stranger t...
True Crime | 3. How Televised Trials Of The 90s Turned Crime Into a Spectacle
In the 1990s, a true crime phenomenon took over our lives – the televised trial. For the first time, we weren’t just getting snippets with t...
True Crime | 2. "Hot Ted Bundy"
In this week’s episode, we’ll dissect our problematic sexualization of serial killers. Yeah, it’s kinda sick that #HotTedBundy is a thing. W...
True Crime | 1. In Cold Blood to Serial & true crime tropes
Host Mariah Smith is back for season 3 to dissect a messy obsession. This is Spectacle: True Crime. In our pilot episode, we look at how the...
Introducing Spectacle: True Crime
Why is it that after a long, hard day of work we want to unwind with a glass of wine and… murder? From In Cold Blood to Serial, America is o...
Las Vegas | 12. True Crime in Sin City: Mobsters, Murders and Thieves
Host Brent Holmes brings S1 host Mariah Smith on to talk true crime. In this episode, the two dish on three outrageous true crime stories to...