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<p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED | Dresden is the most frightening character in this book.</p><p>Not because he’s cruel. Because he makes sense.</p><p>And Miller’s response to him is the moral center of the entire...
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Beyond the Breakdown
Hosted by Yvan Junior Blanchette · arts · EN
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Beyond The Breakdown explores the architecture of storytelling across books, film, and television. Through deep analysis and thoughtful critique, each piece goes beyond plot to examine structure, theme, and meaning. beyondthebreakdown.substack.com
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What is Beyond the Breakdown about?
Beyond The Breakdown explores the architecture of storytelling across books, film, and television. Through deep analysis and thoughtful critique, each piece goes beyond plot to examine structure, theme, and meaning.
Who hosts Beyond the Breakdown?
Beyond the Breakdown is hosted by Yvan Junior Blanchette. The show has published 18 episodes to date.
What has Beyond the Breakdown covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Leviathan Wakes | Transmission 07: Eros, The Horror Underneath Everything" (3 May 2026, 26 minutes), "Leviathan Wakes | Transmission 06: Eros, The Horror Underneath Everything" (3 May 2026, 29 minutes), and "Leviathan Wakes | Transmission 05: Two Men, One Problem, No Good Options" (3 May 2026, 23 minutes).
How often does Beyond the Breakdown publish?
Beyond the Breakdown publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 18 episodes.
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Booking probability for Beyond the Breakdown is 18%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Beyond the Breakdown requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher.
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Yvan Junior Blanchette hosts Beyond the Breakdown, an arts podcast with 18 episodes published.
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May 3, 202629 minS2<p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED | Eros Station. A million and a half people.</p><p>And something has been done to them that has no name yet.</p><p>Today the book stops pretending it's a political...
May 3, 202623 minS2<p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED | Miller meets Holden. Holden meets Miller. The first thing they do is almost get each other killed in a firefight.</p><p>This is the beginning of a beautiful, deeply dysfunctional...
May 3, 202636 minS2<p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED | Miller finds the Anubis. And the Anubis changes what kind of book this is.</p><p>We came in for a noir detective story set in space. Something else is waiting for us.</p><p>What We...
May 3, 202639 minS2<p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED | Holden has a stolen warship and a crew that barely knows each other.</p><p>Miller has a dead girl’s apartment and a feeling he can’t shake.</p><p>These two stories are moving...
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May 3, 202618 minS2<p><p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.</p></p><p>Holden broadcasts one message. One message with coordinates and a name.</p><p>It radiates outward at the speed of light, an omnidirectional burst of raw data hitting...
May 3, 202636 minS2<p><p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.</p></p><p>Imagine you are trapped in a pitch black metal box.</p><p>You have no food. You are drinking warm, loamy water from the reservoir of a 20-year-old environment suit that...
May 3, 202627 minS1<p><p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.</p></p><p>We started at Sol 6.</p><p>We just watched Sol 549.</p><p>Now we strip away the canvas, vent the atmosphere, and stare at the raw unforgiving math that holds the whole...
May 3, 202636 minS1<p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED. | Sol 549. We started at Sol 6.</p><p>We have been here for every single day of this.</p><p>Today it ends.</p><p>What We Discussed</p><p>The physical reality of what Watney is...
May 3, 202635 minS1<p><p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.</p></p><p>Sol 526. Watney writes: “There aren’t many people who can say they vandalized a three-billion-dollar spacecraft. But I’m one of them.”</p><p>This is the episode where...
May 3, 202620 minS1<p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED. </p><p>3,200 kilometers. That’s like driving from New York to Denver.</p><p>Except it’s -60 degrees at night, your bathroom is a resealable plastic box, and if your solar panels get...
May 2, 202636 minS1<p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED. </p><p>The most important moment in the rescue of Mark Watney happens at 3:42 in the morning, in a cubicle that looks like a landfill, with a man who doesn’t wear a hat.</p><p>No...
May 2, 202618 minS1<p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.</p><p>The math is simple and merciless.</p><p>1,841 potatoes. Starvation on Sol 584. A rescue ship that won’t arrive until Sol 1412. That’s nearly a thousand days too late. And the...
May 2, 202639 minS1<p><p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.</p></p><p>Watney spent months as the loneliest man in history, praying for a single voice to cut through the void.</p><p>The absolute second he gets it, it’s a middle manager in...
May 2, 202632 minS1<p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED. </p><p>For two episodes, we were alone with Watney on Mars.</p><p>Now Weir pulls the camera back. And the first thing Earth does is hold a memorial service for a man who is very...
May 2, 202621 minS1<p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.</p><p>Surviving an acute crisis on Mars earns you exactly one thing: the privilege of facing a chronic one.</p><p>The vacuum of space isn’t trying to kill Mark Watney anymore. Now...
May 2, 202632 minS1<p><p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.</p></p><p>Four words. That’s all Andy Weir needs.</p><p>“I’m pretty much fucked.”</p><p>No sweeping description of the Martian landscape. No crimson dunes, no grand philosophical...
May 2, 202631 minS3<p>FULL SPOILERS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED. </p><p>Welcome to the first transmission.</p><p>In this episode, we introduce Beyond the Breakdown, a show where we take great storytelling apart piece by piece. Books, films...
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