Some shows don’t just end; they betray you, and suddenly the whole series becomes impossible to rewatch.

This episode started with Will’s Substack piece on “unrewatchable TV,” and we take it from there: why How I Met Your Mother feels like a trust fall that never got caught, why Game of Thrones is still rewatchable for some people even after a rushed finale, and the three big ways a show becomes unrewatchable:

1. The ending breaks trust,
2. The show crosses a “trauma threshold,” or
3. It ages so poorly you can’t unsee it.

We also get into the peak-end rule (your brain remembers the emotional peak and the ending), why reboots like the upcoming Harry Potter series feel personal, and what we’ll always rewatch when life is doing the most.

Discussed: HIMYM, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, House of the Dragon, Cheers, Buffy, Firefly/Serenity, Succession, Schitt’s Creek, Steven Universe, Broad City. Plus a quick tease for a future Stranger Things episode.

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This week on Take It Personal, Steph, Will, and Jamie unpack Netflix’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning — and what it feels like to watch a documentary when you already know too much.

Steph comes in with a long memory (and a clipboard), Will is hit with visceral nostalgia and discomfort, and Jamie watches once as a bystander and again as a skeptic. Together, they trace how Bad Boy Records shaped an era — and how power, contracts, charisma, and silence shaped what came next.

The conversation moves from vanished artists and exploitative deals to damning Miami footage, jury bias, cult-leader dynamics, and the uncomfortable truth that celebrity doesn’t just distort justice — it can become the strategy.

This isn’t a recap. It’s a systems conversation about abuse, authorship, nostalgia, and what happens when the mythology finally collapses.

Related reading: Steph explores these themes in greater depth in her Substack essay, “No Way Out, No Way Back,” which reflects on growing up during the Bad Boy era and reckoning with what that legacy means today:

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YouTube is the super-app that has already won the streaming wars. Jamie, Steph, and Wil dig into watch habits, Shorts vs. long-form, creator economies, live sports, policy risks, and why YouTube feels like “groceries” while prestige TV is dessert.

Segments

• 00:03:00 YouTube as a media “super app” (UGC + TV + music + rentals + podcasts)
• 00:10:00 Social detox → intentional YouTube viewing vs. doomscrolling
• 00:14:00 Modularity: Shorts, 10-min vids, 2-hr essays, and live streams
• 00:18:00 Are creators the new networks? (Terrell Grice, Hot Ones)
• 00:25:00 The live-sports moat; “Venue” bundle shoutout
• 00:27:00 Global scale: India, U.S., Brazil user bases
• 00:33:00 Money talk: asset-light payouts vs. studio risk; Alien Earth cost example
• 00:37:00 Policy & platform risk (FTC fines, FCC attention)
• 00:40:00 Public pressure & corporate modulation (Kimmel/Disney, Target)
• 00:49:00 Would-you-rather: Gen Z feed for a year vs. never rewatch again
• 00:51:00 Boycotts & ethical consumption (Nicki Minaj, MJ, R. Kelly feature control)
• 00:56:00 Beyoncé x Ivanka gala seating kerfuffle (light; meta branding chat)
• 00:58:45 Wrap + follows: @takeitpersonal_podcast

Links

• The Terrell Show — channel home | Coco Jones — comeback vlog | Performances
• Youglish — youglish.com
• YouTube Premium / Music overview
• YouTube TV — NFL Sunday Ticket