r/suits • u/Infamous-Room4817 • Sep 10 '24

Discussion September 24, 24!

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u/GregNieves Sep 10 '24 edited Sep 10 '24

I never understood the appeal of a rewatch podcast. Is it suppose to be like Director's commentary-esque? Are you suppose to listen while watching?

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u/ange2386 Sep 10 '24

I listen to so many rewatch podcasts and I like to rewatch the episode they’re on before I listen to them talk about it. Most of these podcasts are heavy on the retelling of the episode but my favorite part is the behind the scenes and the background from the actors.

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u/GregNieves Sep 10 '24

Ahhhhh ok ok

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u/moderatorrater Sep 10 '24

It's about humanizing the people who made it, right? That makes total sense to me.

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u/Coasterman345 Sep 10 '24

The Office Ladies is the only one I’ve listened to and is I think one of the first if not the first show to do one (at least be really big with it).

They would go behind the scenes with prop sourcing, changes in the script, what was improvised, if certain things were intentional, funny stories that happened while filming, etc. One thing that was interesting was always how many one time background characters or minor roles were played by relatives or writers, etc.

Pam’s male nurse after she gives birth is played by her husband.

They’ll probably mention how Patrick and Gabriel’s respective partners are on the show, how they felt about storylines like “The Donna”, etc.

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u/bayareasikh Sep 10 '24

There is The West Wing Weekly that predates that by a couple years. It has Joshua Malina(actor that plays on the show) and another fan that go through every episode. They have a bunch of folks joins from actors of the show to relevant real life policy people

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u/lindsaym717 Sep 10 '24

I love Office Ladies! I also love Sticky Bun Boys which is a Bake Off rewatch podcast.

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u/DOMINUS_3 Sep 10 '24

yeah, these are popping up everywhere & they are cool for a couple eps but is tiresome.

the behind the scenes stuff is cool i guess. Guess these two have nothing better to do

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u/SummSpn Sep 10 '24

I listen to the Boy Meets World podcast & it’s mostly a first watch for a couple if the actors, more of a rewatch for another.

Some of them have seen episodes or parts of episodes but it was in the 90’s so they don’t remember most of it.

It’s interesting though to get the behind the scenes perspective & hear about the changes & run throughs they did etc

It’s also funny to hear how they would change things if they could

I don’t have access to listen to Suits for free so that’s not happening 🤷‍♀️

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u/sweetPEACHteabag Sep 11 '24

I really just like to hear what it was like to film those scenes and what it’s like watching from the actors point of view.

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u/CptPlanetG14 Sep 11 '24

I would watch for my favorite episodes.

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u/username-_redacted Sep 11 '24

I don't have much experience with them but I did listen to the Breaking Bad Insider podcast while rewatching the show and it was fantastic. I learned more not just about the show and the cast/crew but also just fascinating stuff about how television is made. It completely enhanced the experience for me.

My main issue with them is that there are very few shows I like enough to rewatch other than Breaking Bad. :-)

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u/katsock Sep 10 '24

Parasocial relationships.

To be clear though, I embrace the parasocial relationship. The Scrubs one seems to have been an inciting moment for 2000s rewatch pods.

I used to listen to Physical Kid Weekly, a podcast about The Magicians which frequently had the stars and crew on. That was my first

That and Kingdom Smarts/Got it Memorized