The New York Times Presents

Episode 1 | How to Fix a Pageant

Decades of waning cultural credibility and recent scandals have left the Miss USA pageant in chaos. This film explores allegations that rotted the core of an iconic institution and questions if it has outlived its relevance.

Episode 2 | Broken Horses

Churchill Downs, the cathedral of horse racing, turned into a horse graveyard at last year's Kentucky Derby; exploring the sport beneath the pageantry, where a quest for faster horses is causing alarming breakdowns.

Episode 3 | Lie to Fly

A pilot's fear of losing his career due to mental health issues leads him to allegedly attempt crashing a plane under drug influence, igniting debate on revising FAA policies concerning pilots' psychological well-being.

Episode 4 | Weight of the World

As GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic soar in popularity for weight loss, this film follows three people on their own GLP-1 journeys and explores how decades of diet culture and society's relentless pursuit of thinness paved the way for the...