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.
0 · Read More »
Star Trek on Overthinking It
NYCC 2015: The Economics of Star Trek
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.
1 · Read More »
Episode 380: Postponing the Larger Reckoning
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.
Listen Now · Download · 9 · Show Notes »
Episode 378: Like Kermit the Frog, He Seems Rife for Hot Takes
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.
Listen Now · Download · 16 · Show Notes »
The Case of the Week Quotient Returns!
How does a TV series change over time? And can we measure it?
7 · Read More »
Episode 348: They Are Not The Hell Your Whales
The Overthinkers tackle the passing of Leonard Nimoy, the philosophical implications of #TheDress, and whether Leslie Knope lives in the Frank Underworld.
Listen Now · Download · 11 · Show Notes »
Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)
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.
Why Interstellar is Like Having an Argument With an A-hole
But as an argument, Interstellar is incredibly sloppy. And that’s a problem, because Christopher Nolan movies are usually arguments before they are stories.
Does Anyone Watch “Star Trek” in “Interstellar”?
On “Star Trek,” the Apollo Program, and the story within the story of “Interstellar”
4 · Read More »
Interference by Default: The Hegemony and Hypocrisy of the Prime Directive
Is the non-interference mandated by the Prime Directive worse than the interference that it tries to prevent?