Imagine waking up to find you've lost your agent, your boyfriend, and your "it girl" status all in the same afternoon. For most, this would be a prompt for a quiet life of pottery, but for the protagonist of the 2013 indie comedy He's Way More Famous Than You, the only cure for a failing career is a pathological pursuit of status. In this episode of pplpod, we conduct a structural archaeology of this brilliant fame satire, deconstructing how real-life stars Haley Pfeiffer and Ryan Spahn wrote a hall-of-mirrors script about their own desperation. Directed by Michael Urie, the film functions as a high-octane meta-narrative that leverages actual industry wattage—including cameos from Ben Stiller and Jesse Eisenberg—to mock  ...