Episode 415: Hamilton Doesn’t Scale
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we talk “Hamilton” on the eve of the Tony awards.
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Myth, History and Game of Thrones
What can Arthurian legend, Norse myth, and Greek tragedy tell us about where Game of Thrones is headed?
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Episode 251: Christopher Columbus’s Zodiac Pontoon Boat
The Overthinkers tackle Shana Mlawski’s Hammer of Witches and subversive genre fiction.
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Episode 231: They Did Go Hungry Again
The Overthinkers tackle Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, starring Daniel Day Lewis.
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Episode 120: Magical Realist Jackass-scape
The Overthinkers Tackle the 20th anniversary of IMDb, Jackass 3D, high-culture fart jokes, and mortification of the flesh.
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A People’s History of the NYPD: Howard Zinn, The Other Guys and the Cinema of the Unsung
A movie for the little cops.
Episode 23: Heaven is Other People
Sheely and Wrather discuss The Sid and Maxxie/Anwar episodes of Skins, focusing on false autonomy, post-Soviet Russia, realist and transnational views of the international system, and child brides.
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The Age of Iron: What Iron Man 2 is Really About
The next age of humanity will be one of Iron.
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America’s Sacrifice: How the USA Saved Popular Culture by Avoiding the Metric System
How deep is your love … in meters?
Episode 81: The Arsenio Hall Show
The Overthinkers tackle the Golden Globes, the late night debacle (big winner: Arsenio), and the misattribution of agency.
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