Minnesota Experience: Season 6
Season 6 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Minnesota Experience Season 5.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 6 Progress Shield
Broadcast Wars Ep 1: Just the Facts
Nov 26, 2024 · 30 min
Stanley E. Hubbard is an early pioneer in radio and television, and KSTP is the top local TV news for decades. That is, until a fresh-faced Dave Moore and his team launch a new kin
Broadcast Wars Ep 2: Ratings Frenzy
Nov 26, 2024 · 45 min
KSTP hires a consultant to find the perfect anchor, reporters of color begin to find slightly greater welcome in local newsrooms, while stations dabble with putting women at the an
Broadcast Wars Ep 3: Out of Nowhere
Nov 26, 2024 · 45 min
After decades of local news irrelevance, perennial also-ran KARE11 goes from laughingstock to ratings powerhouse in just a few short years. The Hubbards pour millions into a techno
Brutal Utopias
Apr 15, 2025 · 60 min
A poetic exploration of architecture, utopia, and resistance to urban renewal in the 1970s and its aftermath in Minneapolis' Cedar Riverside neighborhood.
Paradox Episode 1: Early History of the MPD and Reform
Oct 21, 2025 · 60 min
Since it's beginning in the late 19th century, what the Minneapolis Police Department would look like has always been up for debate. Dr. Williams explores that early history and it
Paradox Episode 2: Mid-century Changes and Challenges
Oct 21, 2025 · 60 min
With the 60s came new progressive movements all across the US. How will this affect policing in Minneapolis? Proposed reforms, a strengthening police union, and new Mayors will all
Paradox Episode 3: 80s, 90s, and Their Echoes
Oct 21, 2025 · 60 min
The 1980s brought the controversial Chief Tony Bouza to MPLS. A look at his paradoxical views on policing and their impact. How does this history echo into the present?
The Wild West Bank Sound
Apr 21, 2026 · 60 min
Minneapolis’ West Bank neighborhood was once an epicenter of the music world. From the early 1960s, this perennial immigrant landing strip proved an irresistible draw for artists f