The Season of the Pablos: Reinvention, Scandal, and Redemption in 2025
From a surgeon’s anti-aging TV leap to a journalist’s NBA bombshell and Colombia’s land restitution, three very different Pablos are rewriting their stories this week.
Los Angeles, October 7 EST: If your timeline feels weirdly full of Pablos this week, you’re not imagining it. There’s a doctor going prime time, a journalist stirring up the NBA, and even a Colombian ghost getting posthumous character development. Different lanes, same headline energy: reinvention season has a new mascot.
Pablo Prichard Goes Hollywood(ish
First up: Dr. Pablo Prichard, the Phoenix-based reconstructive surgeon who’s taking his scalpel to the screen. He’s behind Forever Young with Dr. Pablo Prichard, a shiny new NBC series that claims to fuse medical science with longevity storytelling a little Grey’s Anatomy heart, a little Limitless brain chemistry, and a lot of “let’s hack aging.”
According to PR Newswire, Prichard says he’s bringing “a science-based model” to slowing age progression. Translation: he’s trying to put real data behind the youth-obsessed content that clogs your feed. That’s not nothing in an era when everyone with a ring light and a peptide drip calls themselves an expert.
There’s also something quietly refreshing about a doctor choosing network television over TikTok to pitch his version of forever. It feels almost old-fashioned a reminder that before “biohacking” became a lifestyle brand, people actually trusted doctors on TV. (Paging Dr. Oz, with all due caution.)
So yeah, Prichard’s timing is canny. He’s walking straight into the cultural sweet spot between medical authority and media charisma, where the real question isn’t whether you can live longer it’s whether you can make audiences care for a full season.
Pablo Torre’s Slam Dunk for Journalism
Then there’s Pablo Torre, who just threw down one of the wildest journalistic alley-oops of the year.
According to Nieman Lab, Torre best known for his smart-aleck ESPN years and his wildly good Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast dropped an investigation that claims the Los Angeles Clippers may have quietly funneled $50 million to a Kawhi Leonard–linked LLC, possibly to bend salary cap rules.
Cue the chaos: NBA insiders whispering, fans screenshotting, and Torre suddenly holding the ball in the league’s newest drama. The NBA has reportedly opened an investigation, and Torre’s name is now in the same breath as words like “side deal,” “compliance,” and “oh my God, is that legal?”
But what really lands here isn’t the alleged $50 million shell game it’s the method. Torre’s doing this as an independent operator, no ESPN bosses to rein him in, no corporate lawyers smoothing the edges. It’s watchdog work with podcast pacing the kind of journalism that feels like it was built for the YouTube comment era, but still remembers footnotes.
He’s basically proving that “content creator” doesn’t have to be a dirty word. Sometimes it just means a reporter who figured out how to break news and keep the mic.
Pablo Escobar’s Ghost Gets a Rewrite
And then there’s the Pablo who’s been dead for 30 years but still manages to trend every time culture tries to clean up his mess.
As CBS News reported last week, Colombia just handed over part of Pablo Escobar’s old estate, Hacienda Nápoles, to women who survived the country’s armed conflict. The property, once the ultimate narco fantasy complete with a private zoo, cocaine money sculptures, and those infamous “hippos” is now being repurposed for something radically different: restitution and rebuilding.
It’s poetic, honestly. The same land that embodied violent excess is being turned into a site for empowerment. The “Pablo” brand, once shorthand for unchecked power, gets re-scripted into something restorative. For Americans raised on Narcos reruns and meme culture, it’s a cultural curveball proof that not every villain needs another glossy antihero arc. Sometimes the real reboot happens on the ground.
One Name, Three Comebacks
What ties these stories together isn’t the name though “Pablo” clearly has a moment. It’s the vibe: reinvention, credibility, and a kind of high-stakes sincerity.
Dr. Prichard is trying to turn medical science into appointment TV without the snake oil. Pablo Torre is reclaiming journalism from algorithms and ad departments. And Colombia is rewriting the legacy of a man who once hijacked its identity. Three Pablos, three redemption arcs each in a different register, but all hitting the same chord: how do you get people to believe again?
And honestly, that’s the throughline of 2025. We’re in a trust recession. Every industry media, medicine, government, you name it is fighting for attention without selling its soul. So maybe it makes sense that the week’s most interesting stories come from people (and one ghost) who understand the art of the comeback.
Whether it’s in front of a camera, behind a podcast mic, or buried under decades of bad legend, the Pablos of 2025 are making one thing clear: legacy is just another story waiting for an edit.
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A bi-coastal pop culture critic and former indie screenwriter, Gia covers Hollywood, streaming wars, and subculture shifts with razor wit and Gen Z intuition. If it’s going viral, she already knew about it.
