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.
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Psychology on Overthinking It
Episode 16: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather overthink Gossip Girl and Glee, focusing on what it takes to be a ruler and a rebel.
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Wrestling with Wild Things, Part 2
Why memories make people sad, the narrativization of loss, advances in clinical psychology, and why everything you think you know about therapeutic art may be wrong.
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Overthinking BSG: Episodes 1.1-1.8
Mlawski uses post-Freudian analysis to unravel the Cylons’ daddy issues.
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Overthinking Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries
Mlawski asks herself, “Do I really want to watch a show about how much humans deserve to die?”
Gossip Girl: What’s My Motivation?
The last episode of Gossip Girl continued the show’s return to form, and thankfully contained various acts of wanton cruelty. try to humiliate her best friend, crush an innocent underclassman, thwart her mother’s crucial fashion show not once, not twice, … Continued
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Super Bowl Ads and Their Relation to the Unconscious
Aside from ethnic stereotyping that didn’t even skirt the issue (Mariachis are sexy! Indians are crass capitalists! Chinese are pandas!), there was an overriding theme to this year’s Super Bowl ads. It started with the Audi Godfather spot.
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