Spectacular Failures is back for season two, starting August 3rd! 2020 has been a year of fail. Global pandemic, check. Economic meltdown, check. Political unrest, check. Busted businesses and collapsed corporations are having a moment, and who better to tackle those tales than Lauren Ober and Spectacular Failures?
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Introducing: Ripple
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Sqirl finds itself in a jam
NYC Taxi Medallions' steep fare
Subprime times at Countrywide Financial
Pan Am hits major turbulence
A dairy giant gets milked
Napster fought the law and the law won
The toxic tale of the Love Canal fail
The curtain falls on a big Broadway company
Forever 21 goes from rags to riches to bankruptcy court
Blue Apron wilts, then rises to a new challenge
Trump's big gamble on Atlantic City
Toys R Us goes bust
Lincoln Savings loses it all
The inferno that transformed American labor
Family fighting sends U-Haul on a detour
Kodak misses its moment
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