We teamed up with host Alex Pappademas and Higher Ground to create The Big Hit Show. This immersive romp tells the stories of the big pop cultural moments that have shaped our world.
Higher Ground came to us with season ideas, and through in-depth research we fleshed the ideas out, and created season and episode outlines. We then wrote interview questions, booked and recorded in-person and remote interviews, wrote original scripts, recorded and directed host tracking in our studios, and produced, sound designed and scored the episodes with original compositions. Finally, we delivered the finalized episodes to Higher Ground.
The first season breaks down the Twilight Saga — the books and movies — and pays particular attention to the fandom, which has rewritten all the rules of how creators, fans and culture interact.
Season two looks at Kendrick Lamar’s masterpiece, To Pimp a Butterfly. Years later, the album has more than 1.5 billion streams on Spotify and continues to hold its place in the zeitgeist. The cultural conversation regularly finds its way back to this album that, according to Alex and his podcast guests, made it bigger than mainstream—it changed the world.
In season three we broke the first rule of Fight Club to dive deep into David Fincher’s 1999 film, tracing its journey from box office flop to cult classic. Making satire is hard. And what if the satire you make is so cool, so star-studded, so subversive that the audience takes the wrong message from it?
In season 4 we explored the biggest hit of all time: Pokémon, and how these adorable pocket monsters evolved into a media supernova unlike any the world has ever seen.