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June 13, 2024

Bonus: Ren Faire feat. Lance Oppenheim

We talk to Lance Oppenheim, director of Ren Faire, the new docu-series on HBO. Ren Faire looks at the drama behind the scenes of the enormous Texas Renaissance Festival. When capricious 86-year-old owner and founder “King” George Coulam attempts to retire, his underlings, the obsequious & loyal-to-a-fault Jeff and the ambitious & conniving Louie, are pitted against each other in their attempts to gain control of the park. It’s a darkly comedic real-life Shakespeare story, but it also touches on a lot of ideas about work, employment, ownership, power, performance, alienation, and an (unhealthy?) obsession with the past, all in the context of a very particular modern workplace.

All three episodes of Ren Faire are available now to stream on Max (the place for HBO).

Comments (60)

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NobleStrings · September 28, 2026

holy shit this guy made Primetime

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William Jarvis · June 23, 2024

Dude Jeremy Strong is great in this as Louie but I think he's being typecast as a fail son with grand dreams and a white knuckling drug problem

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ResilientBastard · June 19, 2024

Always good to hear from a director or other person who is a popcorn fan. I hate theaters without popcorn.

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Matthew Black · June 16, 2024

1.) George is clearly functionally impotent. 2.) Given some of the conversations about numbers that appear, Texas’s lax taxation, and the difficulty finding a buyer I’m making a guess that TRF’s bookkeeping is fucked to hell and nobody can tell what the company is worth.

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Hog_bawls · June 16, 2024

Ill never tell an artist how to do there work, but huge missed oppertunity for a sick Enya drop on the final fade out....

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Reece Coren · June 15, 2024

glad stav’s family got a mention. i hope darla’s okay ❤️

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LOAF · June 15, 2024

Jeff was a heartbreaking character for me to watch. Like Corky St. Cloud dropped into Succession. Hope he enjoys the chocolate conference and finds a new creative outlet.

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Max · June 15, 2024

What was the name of the you tube channel they talked about

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Matt Reichenbach · June 16, 2024

Jenny Nicholson, I believe

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James Burkeen · June 15, 2024

My first wife and I used to hang around Scarborough Faire near the Dallas area. We talked about going to Texas Ren Faire, but some people there warned us off. They thought it was too cult like.

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Austin Williams · June 14, 2024

Chris adds a great flavor to a Chapo interview. Good ep.

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Reece Coren · June 14, 2024

great doc but why did he make me have to relive the phillies losing the world series

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Golander · June 14, 2024

just finished and I do not like that man too much no not too much indeed!

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Johnny B · June 14, 2024

Fun fact, they actually did have an EDM fest on those grounds in May 2017 (Middle Lands Music Fest). It was a success, but the neighbors complained about the noise, and they weren’t able to come back. We went, and it was awesome the way they incorporated the stage designs into the park’s theme.

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Alex Kowalewski · June 14, 2024

"loving the culture but hating the boss" sounds like being a chef

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@ByTheBaeram · June 14, 2024

Damn so the king of the hill episode about this is accurate lmao

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Jordan · June 14, 2024

I’ve learned that all boomers really are perverted greedy freaks

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TroyMcMillan1988 · June 14, 2024

Dark Souls ass RenFair

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will michel · June 14, 2024

i took the bluetooth speaker i was listening to this episode on out of the bathroom and my two year old followed after me and said “i wanna listen to chapo” the boys stay winning hearts and minds

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Dustin Johnson · June 14, 2024

This was great. Does HBO pay you for this interview? This is a great endorsement it's making me open my max app which I constantly consider cancelling

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Jerry Cornelius · June 14, 2024

This is the closest thing we have to a control group for testing that blockhead Curtis Yarvin’s theory of a future monarchist paradise.

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jombeanz · June 14, 2024

This guy cusses too much! Fuckin this and fuckin that

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Kaif Rehman · June 15, 2024

Who fucking cares

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MD · June 14, 2024

I wonder if that great King of the Hill episode where Hank is trying to secure a propane account for a Renn Fair loosely based on this one.

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Anomalie · June 14, 2024

edm festival? dungeon synth is right there

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dingbat44 · June 14, 2024

I always wanted to go to a Ren Faire dressed in nothing but a potato sack and covered in dirt just poke at dirt with with a stick and say "its a living"

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James Kellner · June 14, 2024

My sister is pretty serious about dressing up to go to the one near us every summer and every time I swear to god it's going to be the time I go dressed as a Star Trek guy who landed on a medieval planet but I never have the guts

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C. Ries · June 14, 2024

My favorite thing about Renaissance Fairs is that they depict the Middle Ages but they’re named after the Renaissance

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ResilientBastard · June 14, 2024

Sometimes a gazelle gets taken down and eaten, some times jack rabbit slaps the bear

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Professor Jokes · June 14, 2024

This is a slog

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MEAT CLOWN · June 14, 2024

Hey shut man I haven't listened to it yet

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Fingerless · June 14, 2024

thoughts from my time LARPing -for whatever reason, LARPing tends to have more women in it compared to other nerdy hobbies. unfortunately, this leads to many dudes whose main impetus for LARPing is trying to pick up nerdy women. I leave it to the reader to elaborate -Corollary to the above, there's a big sex nerd overlap. Cosplay drama mixed with polyamory drama is a potent mix. -The guys who start and run successful LARPs tend to be personally wealthy while also having massive fabulist streaks. Inevitably this leads to put upon middle managers who keep things running in spite of their nominal leaders. -The dudes there who are the most popular with women are portly, balding, extremely hairy men. One of the ways the patriarchy hurts men is that it obscures society from this fact.

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Jay-Z Pants · June 14, 2024

This is the first show I’ve been stoked for in ages

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the Minneapolis Kid · June 14, 2024

Are Jenny Nichols and Alex Nichols brother and sister, or married? or both?

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T · June 14, 2024

Alex is Jenny Nichols' son.

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Billiam · June 14, 2024

“Milady! thine cheek piercing be mayhap anachronistic.” (immediately after) “this place would bop with an edm festival.”

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m@tt · June 14, 2024

You can’t have enough documentaries on reptile guy, bird people and ren faire enthusiast.

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jay alan · June 14, 2024

Mind wars

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Maciek · June 15, 2024

pilkington in the xfm era describing winning an argument.

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Ian H. B. · June 14, 2024

The Jenny shoutout omg. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

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Jordan Rundle · June 14, 2024

Was not expecting the Jenny Nicholson endorsement

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Gert · June 14, 2024

No?

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Chip’s Mom Dre · June 14, 2024

George only wishes he was going mad because of end stage syphilis.

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JD Nonce · June 14, 2024

I’m taking all of my clothes except my crown to read this. Crowning myself The King in the Nude

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Smith's Fine Electric Amusements · June 14, 2024

If you're going to crown yourself in the nude, why do you need to take all your clothes except your crown? Wouldn't you need none of your clothes EXCEPT your crown. I don't think you've thought this through, you have it completely backwards.

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T · June 14, 2024

Mine trencher doth overflow with sloppe

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Bman1 · June 14, 2024

Its some episodes where you really miss Matt

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Sam Zeng · June 14, 2024

King George, an American

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Blank · June 13, 2024

Flawless outro

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The Children of Jack Acid · June 13, 2024

Was this the place where Daniel Johnston got stuck in a port-o-john?

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Billiam · June 14, 2024

texas’ greatest son

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Malaparte_Animal · June 13, 2024

Milords have been too kind to us dirt folk

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Brendan Garcia · June 13, 2024

Is this what the king of the hill episode was based on? With Alan Rickman? “How now gasman?!”

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Saya Clarke · June 13, 2024

THIS IS WHAT I THOUGHT TOO OMG! I'm from and live in TX so always thought it must be loosely based on something real!

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Matt Colston · June 13, 2024

*squeal* *squeal

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Bryan Jennings · June 13, 2024

Forsooth, so sayeth the lord, there be no slop, like unexpected slop.

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Chris Car · June 13, 2024

Guys podcast talked about Renn Faire guys this week too!

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Eamonn Curley · June 13, 2024

Wooooo

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Torbjörn · June 13, 2024

Fair morrow good sirs! Bonus sloppeth do hit-eth score past the four, perfect timing methinks! Huzzah indeed.

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Tyler Hanel · June 13, 2024

Huzzah!