In The Shadow of Two Gunmen (Parts 1 and 2)
the wire
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 49: Voodoo Smash
Sheely and Wrather bash the convertible. (Covers Friday Night Lights S01 E03-04.)
Episode 46: Novel Idea
Sheely and Wrather return with insight into Season 5 of Gossip Girl, Friday Night Lights, and, of course, The Wire.
The Wire and the Virtue of Addiction
Open Thread for March 11, 2011
This Open Thread has a carbon-fiber chassis, goes from 0 to 60 in 3.8 seconds, and comes in any color you like, so long as it’s black. Plenty going on this week: the arrest of former drug dealer Felicia “Snoop”…
Episode 133: You Have Knives on Your Shoes
The Overthinkers tackle the 2011 Golden Globes and the Miss America Pageant.
A People’s History of the NYPD: Howard Zinn, The Other Guys and the Cinema of the Unsung
Episode 21: After School Commons
Sheely, Stokes, and Wrather begin TFT summer school by examining the UK TV series Skins.
Episode 17: The Cremaster Field (or, Chuck Dies)
Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather overthink the season finale of Gossip Girl and the Joss Whedon/Neil Patrick Harris episode of Glee.