# Season 1, Gen X — Episode 34 — While We're Young (2014)

An episode of [Death is a Photograph](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1851854369), 30 Jul 2026, 57 min.

Audio: https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/6a6b04be5805b672e6ba31f3/size/82012077/audio-files/67f3e7b6c0e44b4fefd3ba4a/3e88238c-cb1c-40b9-b028-694844828516.mp3

Fear the coming of the trilby. Yes, that's right — today, in the last episode of our first season, we're looking at Gen X accelerating towards middle age and a crash encounter with those coming up behind them: millennials. No one captured this dissonant first encounter better than Noah Baumbach in his 2014 feature While We're Young — a spiralling comedy of manners obsessed with subcultures, technology, filmmaking, ethics, and the process of ageing itself. Were the millennials the horrific spawn of a shallow age? Solopistic, self-involved, far too comfortable with 'selling out?' Or were they a pioneering generation, with enough earnestness and purchasing power to transform cities, fashion, media and art — at least sometimes — for the better? Find out in today's episode.

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