The hearings put on by the have been produced and presented less like congressional hearings and more like an episodic HBO docuseries. With committee members 鈥� mostly Republican Rep. Liz Cheney 鈥� as the narrators, with witness testimony as the expert talking heads, with footage of depositions and speeches and the January 6 riot itself as the documentary actualities.
The hearings have been compared to true-crime podcasts, .
This hour, we look at the hearings as television.
GUESTS:
- James Poniewozik: Chief television critic for The New York Times and the author of
- Frank Rich: Writer-at-large for New York magazine and executive producer of HBO鈥檚 Succession
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Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show.
