
Giving Thanks for Pop Culture
Join us around our virtual Thanksgiving table as we reflect on the pop culture that we’re most thankful for this year.
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Join us around our virtual Thanksgiving table as we reflect on the pop culture that we’re most thankful for this year.
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Mark Lee beams up the author of “Trekonomics” to discuss terminal abundance, whether capitalism is part of human nature, and the coming reputation-based economy. Also Riker.
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On the Overthinking It Podcast we discuss the effect of two- and three-episode arcs on television narrative and get a live report from New York Comic Con.
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On the Overthinking It Podcast, we celebrate our seventh anniverary with a discussion of the Muppets, the Volkswagen scandal, and Pope Francis’s visit to the United States.
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How does a TV series change over time? And can we measure it?
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The Overthinkers tackle the passing of Leonard Nimoy, the philosophical implications of #TheDress, and whether Leslie Knope lives in the Frank Underworld.
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We mourn and pay tribute to the most beloved of performers of aliens, the sensualist who inspired slash fiction and the psychosexual saint of the nerds.
But as an argument, Interstellar is incredibly sloppy. And that’s a problem, because Christopher Nolan movies are usually arguments before they are stories.
On “Star Trek,” the Apollo Program, and the story within the story of “Interstellar”
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Is the non-interference mandated by the Prime Directive worse than the interference that it tries to prevent?