"Now, Lambert is back with JennaWorld, which aired its final episode on Monday, January 26. It traces businesswoman and "Queen of Porn" Jenna Jameson's life - from growing up in Las Vegas and finding stability working in porn to going all the way to the industry's financial climax and her eventual awkward, messy comedown. Jameson typifies what Lambert calls the female anti-hero."
"JennaWorld also zooms out to the porn industry as a whole. Lambert focuses on the biz's biggest fish, Vivid Entertainment. The company became huge during the DVD boom (same with Family Guy), only to fade away when big tech muscled into the business with free streaming video. It should have been a dire warning to Hollywood about tech companies ruining what had previously been a steadily profitable business. Alas, no one takes the porn industry seriously."
"Using a voice cast of dozens (including the author of this piece), JennaWorldillustrates how the porn industry has always presaged what's happening in mainstream entertainment. "They try it first with porn to see if there's a market for it," Lambert says. "And then when it mainstreams, they try to erase porn from the story." As Los Angeles becomes a zombie husk of itself, and tech companies monopolize an already shrinking industry, the Valley points to Hollywood's fate like the Ghost of Christmas Future."
The JennaWorld podcast traces Jenna Jameson's life from a Las Vegas upbringing to finding stability in pornography and then to the industry's peak and messy fall. The series examines Vivid Entertainment's boom during the DVD era and how free streaming from big tech undercut previously profitable business models. The podcast uses a multi-voice cast to illustrate how porn often tests innovations later adopted by mainstream media and how, once mainstreamed, porn is erased from the narrative. The series frames Jameson as a female anti-hero and connects industry shifts to broader changes in Los Angeles and Hollywood.
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