Making
4.8/5
Critic Rating
Making: Stories Without End takes you on a journey to learn about daytime soap operas and their broad reach on television. From the early radio days in the 1930s through the invention of TV to streaming, this way of telling immersive stories has endured. There are intergenerational family stories, discussions about divorce and abortion, groundbreaking storylines dealing with queer representation. And all these threads go back to one Chicago woman, Irna Phillips. The queen of soaps originated, wrote or supervised more than a dozen daytime serials for more than 40 years… and left a lasting mark on the television industry. You’ll h...
Critic Reviews
Score: 5
Hannah Verdier • The Guardian • Jan 5, 2023
"(Making Beyonce) Making … does a solid job of taking listeners up to her first solo banger, Crazy in Love, in just four parts...there are also some subtly spiky interviewees, including singer Támar Davis, who fell victim to the young Bey’s determination to become central to any girl group lineup she found herself in."
Score: 4.5
Fiona Sturges • Financial Times • Nov 23, 2019
"(Making Beyonce) Hopkins’ presenting style here is understated, preferring not to over explain and using the copious interviews, along with clips from home movies and TV footage, to allow us to draw our own conclusions. As an oral history of the creation of a pop phenomenon, Making Beyoncé is thorough, illuminating and often deeply alarming in its depiction of preternatural talent, parental ambition and the sacrifice of a normal childhood in the pursuit of commercial success. …"
Score: 5
Eliana Dockterman • Time • Jun 5, 2018
"(Season: Obama) Those nostalgic for the former president can escape to memories of yesteryear by listening to his distinct cadence. Ahead of the midterms, though, the podcast also plays like a call to action."
