"Davidson's debut episode, featuring Machine Gun Kelly, is assembled from the rough, requisite symbols of podcasting: host and guest sunk into plush, beat-up chairs vaguely facing each other, chatting and smoking cigarettes in a space that's presented as Davidson's garage, Benjamin Moore paint tubs doubling as an ashtray stand. Good pals, their conversation is loose and circuitous; their discussion drifts from adventures while getting high, stints in rehab, and - because this is the first episode - what a podcast even is."
"And yet there's more going on here than that framing would suggest. The whole thing is unmistakably televisual: shot with film grain that dramatizes the light seeping into the garage, lingering on the way cigarette smoke curls in the air, cut actively to track the rhythm of the exchange rather than merely observe it. You could say, charitably, that it's quite the high-end celebrity podcast."
The Pete Davidson Show presents itself as a Netflix podcast while diverging from conventional audio formats through deliberate visual styling and production. The debut episode features Machine Gun Kelly in a staged garage setting with props and cigarette smoke, and a loose, circuitous conversation that ranges from getting high to rehab and the nature of podcasts. Cinematic techniques—film grain, controlled light, lingering shots, and active editing—reshape the exchange into a televisual experience. The show sits within Netflix's original podcast slate but exemplifies the medium's shift toward video, celebrity spectacle, and hybridized production values.
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