I'm Alyssa Breznak and over the past year I've spoken with founders and fans, investors

and engineers, employees, celebrities, all to answer one question.

What happened to HQ trivia?

An app that threw millions of live viewers and was supposed to be the future of TV until

it wasn't.

From the Ringer Podcast Network, this is BoomBust, the rise and fall of HQ trivia, now on Spotify

or wherever you get your podcasts.

So today we are on episode two, season two of the wire, the very much maligned season

two.

And I hope, and I said this, we both said this after we broke down episode one that hopefully

if this is your second rewatch on the wire, because I think that's important.

If this is your second rewatch, I just have a feeling you have a much different opinion

of season two.

I'm betting on that.

Then maybe you did the first time around.

But nevertheless, here we are, episode two, collateral damage of a lot of that going around

in this episode for everybody.

So why don't we just first start by talking about kind of our major takeaways or overall impressions

of episode two?

What do you got?

It deals with powerlessness.

It deals with people who are in the middle of things and have had wherever it was that

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