Marxism on Overthinking It

False Consciousness in Sunnydale: Karl Marx, Adam Smith, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Why don’t Buffy and the Watcher’s Council just tell the world about vampires?

Did Katy Perry intend to unfollow Russell Brand on Twitter? Or was she thwarted by French literary theorist Roland Barthes?

The new Muppet movie is about traversing alienation and owning your work. But is it Communist?

How does Death Star planet destruction affect the Empire’s GGP? (That’s Gross Galactic Product.)

Sheely returns with Wrather to discuss the past three Columbia-centric episodes of Gossip Girl.

Ryan Sheely, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather join an inter-continental episode of TFT to overthink the season finale of Glee.

The TFT podcast returns with more insight into Gossip Girl. Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather comfort you with visions of a transnational elite.

Let’s get this out of the way first. Fantastic Mr. Fox is about penises.

The Overthinkers tackle cold war pop culture in light of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Tired of emo-vampires and pathetic werewolves? It’s the Ruskies’ fault.