The Good Place Unlocked: Season 2 Episode 4, “Existential Crisis”
Michael suffers an existential crisis on The Good Place, and the Overthinking It crew is back to unlock this episode’s secrets.
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Posts by Stokes on Overthinking It
Stokes has been writing for OTI since the very beginning. (No seriously, he wrote the first post on the site.) He's probably the guy to talk to if you want to pitch an article about music theory or horror movies. Check out his 50,000 word exegesis of Cowboy Bebop, his three-part series on plotting in early video games, or his alternate rules for Monopoly.
Star Trek: Discovery – “This is not a democracy!”
Starfleet has a dark side…and it tastes like Tang.
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Super Timely Post on Beauty and the Beast
If the classic tale was really about beauty, it would have been totally different. Here’s why.
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How Dunkirk’s Shifting Timeframes Capture Our Hearts and Minds
The shifting timelines in Dunkirk make it the most intense war movie in decades — but they also have a philosophical point to make.
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Game of Thrones Unlocked: Season 7 Episode 2, “Stormborn”
This week on Game of Thrones: Astonishingly character-grounded and non-pointless lovemaking, to remind us that we actually care.
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Overthinking Eurovision 2017: All Things Flow
Can Francesco Gabbani reconcile western materialism with eastern spirituality in Italy’s 2017 entry in the Eurovision Song Contest?
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Horror Worth Watching: The VVitch
The VVitch brings cosmic horror uncomfortably close to home.
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’Merica Madness: Sex Round 1
Let’s get it on.
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Turn Down For What and the Party Fetish
Let’s talk about sex…and why this video ties itself in knots over it.
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Overthinking Cowboy Bebop: The One-Eyed Spike and the One-Handed Jet
Who knew that Cowboy Bebop was basing its characters on Proto-Indo-European mythology? French philologist Georges Dumezil, that’s who!