What Ever Happened to Predictability? Nostalgia and the Full House Revival
What are we actually nostalgic for when we watch the new reboot of Full House?
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Nostalgia on Overthinking It
Episode 354: Don Draper’s Seppuku
The Overthinkers tackle the new season of Mad Men, the folly of learning history from TV shows, and Hillary Clinton’s playlist for 2016.
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Episode 324: Skeptical as a Schoolgirl
The Overthinkers tackle Adulthood in popular culture and A. O. Scott’s New York Times article saying we’re idiots for liking The Hunger Games.
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Episode 114: Neil Young Made Me a Mixtape
Matt and Ryan kick off a new quarter of TFT devoted to a look back at popular music history with Neil Young’s “Harvest” as well as his recently-released “A Letter Home.”
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Episode 112: The Novelty Industrial Complex
Ryan and Matt listen to and discuss Chromeo’s “White Women.”
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A Link Across Time: The Power of Childhood in The Legend of Zelda
What is “The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds” trying to tell us about nostalgia? And what does it have to do with turning into a painting?
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Episode 207: Sing A Song into Our Butt
The Overthinkers tackle the movie Rock of Ages, and ask: What makes rock ROCK?
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Episode 20: Pointillist Causality
Ryan Sheely, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather join an inter-continental episode of TFT to overthink the season finale of Glee.
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Episode 78: “Oh, the Muppets. They happened.”
The Overthinkers look back at the naughties. Or the aughties. Or whatever you call them.
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Santayana, Goodbye: Billy Joel’s Imperfect Nostalgia
Everything bad happened after 1963.
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