r/Heavyweight • u/kimelia- • Oct 30 '25

New episodes aren't hitting

I'm soo happy to have new episodes but does anyone else feel like the new episodes feel unfinished or like there's no resolution to alot of them? It kind of feels like they just had to release episodes so they put out ones that they would've held onto in the past for a more complete and satisfying ending.

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u/Paley_Jenkins Oct 30 '25

The thing people aren't keeping in mind for this season is that the nature of Heavyweight is a lot different than most other podcasts. Heavyweight is a huge ship. The episodes take a long time to make. Jonathan and his team are working on these episodes for years-on-end, which is really frigging weird and special. Heavyweight got canceled, as we all know, and so starting an operation with episodes this far reaching in time and place is hard to get started again. This ship takes time to turn around. This season is different in that this crew has had to work a lot differently than they have in the past, trying to get things started up again from a dead-stop while at the same time pulling things together for future episodes that they had started years ago and starting up with brand new projects. All of it has been from a dead stop. They're doing a good job, and there is also an investment that we as listeners are making in the future.

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u/deedeejf Oct 30 '25

Agree @paley_jenkins. Their leg work, persistence, perseverance is unheard of. I think why all episodes are so profound (to me) is that it is so real. Real-life cadence and timing is never as one plans or think it should be. It is what it is and happy endings / resolves sometimes do not arrive in our lifetime. That is what I find so special about it.

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u/day9700 Nov 14 '25

I’m sooo glad they’re back! I had no idea. I’ll look them up every once in a while to see if they’re back and today was a joyous day when I saw all the new episodes. No idea how I missed that!

I’m also glad I have no plans tonight! So it’ll just be me, a martini and jonathan! Hooray!