Sheely and Wrather return with Gossip Girl’s 2012 debut, “Are You There, God? It’s Me Blair.”
Episode 54: Pascal’s Wager
TFT Podcast on Overthinking It
Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather consider the sociological implications of Gossip Girl, Glee, and teen soap operas. The tone is tongue in cheek, but the scholarship is serious.
Episode 53: Chekhov’s Bag Of Peas
Sheely and Wrather discuss thematic unity, group membership, and class difference in Friday Night Lights Season 1, Episodes 8 and 9.
Episode 52: Closed Pep Economy
Sheely and Wrather return to Friday Night Lights, discussing Season 1 Episodes 5 through 7.
Episode 51: Felt Goatees for Everybody
Sheely, Stokes, and Wrather consider Community’s parody of Glee.
Episode 50: Chivy League
Sheely and Wrather take Gossip Girl through the Season 5 winter finale.
Episode 49: Voodoo Smash
Sheely and Wrather bash the convertible. (Covers Friday Night Lights S01 E03-04.)
Episode 48: The Futility Condition
Sheely and Wrather consider the latest episode of Gossip Girl and take all the robots apart.
Episode 47: Men Are Coming To Destroy You
Sheely, Stokes, and Wrather call an audible, diving into Friday Night Lights Season 1.
Episode 46: Novel Idea
Sheely and Wrather return with insight into Season 5 of Gossip Girl, Friday Night Lights, and, of course, The Wire.
Episode 45: That Most Turgid of Sciences
Wrather and Sheely are back on their game with this episode, considering Charlie and the principal agent problem.