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Overthinking It Podcast

Overthinking It subjects the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn’t deserve.

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Episode 544: Russia is Like Down-Town Abbey Dec 03, 2018

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather face down their opponents in the ring as they tackle the disjointed Creed II, a film about the cold war or masculinity or slavery or fathers and sons or babies or something.

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Episode 544: Russia is Like Down-Town Abbey originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 543: Hot Dumbledore-on-Grindelwald Action Nov 26, 2018

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather drop back in on the latest Harry Potter which doesn’t have Harry Potter or any of the Harry Potter things you care about: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. To be fair, it doesn’t just have Star Wars prequel problems; it has a few Star Wars prequel solutions.

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Further Reading

The Monster at the End of this Book
The Weimar Republic
The First World War on the Harry Potter Wiki

Episode 543: Hot Dumbledore-on-Grindelwald Action originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 542: Old Country for No Men Nov 19, 2018

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Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather overthink Widows, adapted by acclaimed art-house director Steve McQueen from a British mini-series into a multiplex-friendly heist film–though to be fair one that is fascinating, brilliantly-acted, and exquisitely made. We discuss the genre (what even is a heist movie?), the relationship between the filmmaking and subject matter, and the film’s take on family, race, class, crime, and politics.

We don’t often make recommendations–mostly because we do shows about enormous movies that everyone inevitably sees–but you should go see this film.

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Furthe Reading

Widows on IMDB
“Director Steve McQueen Goes from Art House to Multiplex with Heist Thriller Widows“ on Vanity Fair

Episode 542: Old Country for No Men originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 541: You Left With The Pictures Nov 12, 2018

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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather overthinking what we talk about when we talk about loss, especially the way in which disaster clarifies our understanding of what matters in the world.

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Episode 541: You Left With The Pictures originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 540: You’re a Wizard, Freddy Mercury Nov 05, 2018

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather want to find them somebody to love, but it’s probably not this movie. We talk mostly about the problems with Bohemian Rhapsody, as we overthink a film that works very hard to jam its subject into a conventional mold, but for all that ends up all the more confounding to interpretation.

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Further Reading

Bohemian Rhapsody: Wikipedia, IMDb
Queen at Live Aid
Freddie Mercury on Wikipedia
Headbanging
Film class: Longtime Companion, Derek Jarman, Edward II, Blue

Episode 540: You’re a Wizard, Freddy Mercury originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 539: The Baby Ruth of Theseus Oct 29, 2018

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink confectionary allsorts as they consider candy and non-candy sweets, what makes candy good (or very, very bad), and what the best haul on Halloween would be.

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Further Reading

The NYT Candy Issue: Kit Kat and Candy Tasting
Red Vines
Marshmallow
Pepperidge Farm Cookies

Episode 539: The Baby Ruth of Theseus originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 538: The Dead Author of Your Own Fiction Oct 22, 2018

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather tackle the famous Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Darmok” on the slenderest of pretexts, considering metaphor as a metaphor for metaphor, as a metaphor for all human communication and artistic endeavor, and as a metaphor for human unity and cultural difference. Nobody is more surprised than us when we stick the landing here.

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Episode 538: The Dead Author of Your Own Fiction originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 537: Everything Was Better When I Was a Baby Oct 15, 2018

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Rachel D, Mark Lee, and Ryan Sheely overthink rock nostalgia through the lens of two very different stage musicals: Pop Punk High and Jagged Little Pill.

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Further Reading

Pop Punk High
Jagged Little Pill
“1999” by Charli XCX and Troye Sivan:

Ryan’s Pop Punk Spotify Playlist

Episode 537: Everything Was Better When I Was a Baby originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 536: What You’re Thinking Of Is Pygmalion’s Monster Oct 08, 2018

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather watch Bradley Cooper’s remake of A Star Is Born, starring Lady Gaga, and find it a fascinating and affecting exploration of art, life, art-life, authenticity and artifice, rock and pop, and whether stars are born or made.

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Further Reading

A Star Is Born: Soundtrack on Wikipedia
A Star Is Born: Lyrics
La Vie en Rose lyrics, with English translation

Episode 536: What You’re Thinking Of Is Pygmalion’s Monster originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 535: Screen Practice Oct 01, 2018

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Episode 535: Screen Practice originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

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