On this week's episode, we look at the Hunger Games and Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes through the theme of Play. We discuss how humor can be used as a coping mechanism, how nicknames reveal insight into characters' relationships, and the difference between the agency and sincerity of Lucy Gray's performance and the expectation and commodification of tributes' performances in Katniss' time. Also, Chris puts his graduate degree to work seeing the Hunger Games as a dystopian version of the Olympics.

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