Take a journey with us into the Unknown as we discuss Over the Garden Wall! This time, we’re discussing liminality, whether identity is fixed, and the flimsy nature of reality.

Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:

Over the Garden Wall: Crafting a Modern Fairy Tale by Quality Control

“There is only surrender”: Over the Garden Wall’s Portrayal of Anxiety and Guilt by Kelsey DuQuaine

Over the Garden Wall by Erin Horáková

“Where have we come and where shall we end?”: An Examination of Patrick McHale’s Over the Garden Wall as a Contemporary Otherworld Journey by Kayla Justice

Disclosing Contemporary Folk And Fairy Tales: A Semiotic Reading Of Narrative, Visual, And Musical Topics In The Cartoon Miniseries Over The Garden Wall by Lara Potgieter

Over the Garden Wall is a Fairy Tale Journey Out of Darkness by Melissa Brinks

Is Over the Garden Wall About Having Faith by PBS’ Idea Channel

Over the Garden Wall: A Case Study in Intermediality by Zora Van de Veire

Over The Garden Wall: Why Is The Unknown So Familiar? by What’s So Great About That?

Maurice Sendak’s Caldecott medal speech

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What were we up to fully a month ago? Not that much, surprisingly—but we still managed to get an hour and change out of talking about it!

Content Warning: Discussions of intimate partner violence and suicide in the section of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

What Missy’s Been Up To:

Watching

Grand Designs
No Reservations
Fargo (the movie and two episodes of the show)
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (an unknown number of episodes)

Reading

The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black
Monsters by Claire Dederer

What Merri’s Been Up To:

Watching

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Inside Out 2
Agatha All Along

Playing

Baldur’s Gate III

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We’re taking a closer look at Alasdair Gray and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things! Join us as we discuss socialism, the novel’s ties to Scottish history, and how something can be a great piece of art but a poor adaptation.

Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:

“Making up for Lost Time”: Scotland, Stories, and the Self in Alasdair Gray’s “Poor Things” by Donald P. Kaczvinsky

Insatiable Curiosity: The Real Politics of Poor Things by Mike Small

Thought ‘Poor Things’ was weird? The novel is, too — in a good way. by Michael Dirda

The Voyeuristic Faux-Feminism of Poor Things by Luke Weidemoyer

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde (PDF link)

‘She’s bound and gagged for laughs’: is Poor Things a feminist masterpiece – or an offensive male sex fantasy? by Jess Cartner-Morley

Deviance and the Aesthetic Schema: A Queer(ed) Somaesthetic Analysis of “Poor Things” by Kei Graves

The Baffling Discourse around “Poor Things” by DoctorOfCinema

Viewing Poor Things Through the Eyes of the Feminist Canon by Nicole Fox

How to Build a Feminist by verilybitchie

Poor Things & Alasdair Gray’s Legacy from Ossian

I Loved “Barbie” and “Poor Things” but Neither Film Is a Feminist Masterpiece by Jun Chou

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Merri learns about wrestling, Missy accidentally talks about something she didn’t like, and we both praise The People’s Joker. Here’s what we’ve been up to!

What Missy’s Been Up To:

Watching

Anyone But You
Lisa Frankenstein
Illinoise
The People’s Joker
Delicious in Dungeon
The End of the Fucking World

Reading

Conflict is not Abuse by Sarah Schulman

What Merri’s Been Up To:

Watching

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
The People’s Joker
Mr. McMahon
Zootopia

Some Links You Might Find Interesting:

PAW Patrol’s Dark Secret, Explained by Skip Intro

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We’re back, for real! This time, we’re talking about Maniac, a Netflix miniseries about mental illness, reality, and experiencing the world. We’re talking about mad studies, feeling versus understanding, and more!

Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:

All of the Allegations Against Director Cary Fukunaga by Mia Mercado and Danielle Cohen

Sharing our story in solidarity with Rachelle Vinberg by Hannah & Cailin Loesch (the Internet Archive link is because TwitLonger is down as of posting this—the actual post from them still exists, but is currently inaccessible)

Why Westerners Fear Robots and the Japanese Do Not by Joi Ito

Maniac, Legion and the Terrible Tedium of “Mindfuck” TV by Matt Brennan

Men: Rhyme Over Reason by Acolytes of Horror

Fixing Being with Likeness: Facial Recognition as the Stage for Global Per-Formance by Chris Campanioni

Vulnerability through the Invulnerable Transhuman Lens: Ethics and Disruption of Emotional Connections and Mental Affections in Maniac (2018) by Ana Chapman

Maniac Is a Strange, Hyperkinetic Ode to Connection  by Sophie Gilbert

Lost Without a Connection: Analyzing Netflix’s Maniac in the Digital Streaming Age by Eric Bruce

Maniac Video Essay (University Work) by Jacob Burrows

The rise of Mad Studies by Alex Gillis

Decisions and deliberations: how schizophrenia is more than psychosis | James Kesby | TEDxUQ

I Am Not A Monster: Schizophrenia | Cecilia McGough | TEDxPSU

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After a longer-than-expected hiatus, we’re back (Merri included!) to catch you up on what we’ve been doing!

Mistakes (?): We are genuinely sorry about all the baby noises. Missy did her best to edit them out but babies simply don’t care about when people are talking.

What Missy’s Been Up To:

Watching

Poor Things
Interview With the Vampire Season Two
Hit Man

Playing

Baldur’s Gate III (hear more about that on Postgame)

Reading

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel by Julian Jarboe
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

What Merri’s Been Up To:

Watching

Poor Things
Star Wars: The Acolyte
Grey’s Anatomy
Drag Race Season 16
Fallout
Furiosa

Playing

Disney’s Dreamlight Valley

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Join Missy and Nola Pfau to discuss X-Men: From the Ashes, a mid-80s X-Men story featuring Scott’s new girlfriend who looks a lot like Jean Grey, Storm’s punk transformation, and more. We’re talking about Chris Claremont’s iconic writing, the representation of gender, and whether a superhero comic can be truly subversive.

Mistakes: We unfortunately had some audio issues while recording, so you may notice some echoing. Apologies—we’ve done our best to clear it up.

Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:

The Rape of Ms. Marvel by Carol A. Strickland

Reading Between the Lines: How Paul Smith’s Fluid Style Made Him the Best X-Men Artist of All by Nola Pfau

The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics by Ramzi Fawaz

X-Bodies: The Torment of the Mutant Superhero by Scott Bukatman

The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X-Men by J. Andrew Deman

We’ve Been Stranger Things by Avery Alder

On X-(Wo)men and Third-Wave Feminism by Michael Campochiaro

Paul Smith’s Blog

“I am a superhero”; or, A Casting Call (to Arms) from Recovering the Radical Promise of Superheroes: Un/Making Worlds by Ellen Kirkpatrick

Superheroes And The F-Word: Grappling With The Ugly Truth Under The Capes by Glen Weldon

Watchmen author Alan Moore: ‘I’m definitely done with comics’ by Sam Leith

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Missy is back again with Kat Overland to discuss even more about Scott Pilgrim! What’s up with the “red flag” association? Is Ramona a manic pixie dream girl? What are all these pop culture references accomplishing? Let’s get into it!

Notes: We continued to have a lot to say, so, uh, Missy’s going to try to cut down on the outline length for future episodes. Enjoy this supersized episode!

Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:

Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Texts: Adaptation, Form, and Transmedia Co-creation (in Comics and Pop Culture) by John Bodner

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Vs. Neo-Platonic Romance by Tracy Runanin-Telle

Scott Pilgrim was never the guy the movie made him out to be by Zach Rabiroff

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World by Abigail Nussbaum

An Innocent at Home: Scott Pilgrim and His Canadian Multicultural Contexts by Brenna Clarke Gray and Peter Wilkins

Scott Pilgrim vs. Hegemony: Nostalgia, Remediation, and Heteronormativity by Ryan Lizardi

Scott Pilgrim vs. MANGAMAN: Two Approaches to the Negotiation of Cultural Difference by Aaron Pedinotti

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Megacity by Chester N. Scoville

Leading into the Franchise. Remediation as (Simulated) Transmedia World. The Case of SCOTT PILGRIM by Johannes Fehrle

Game (Not) Over: Video-Game Pastiche and Nostalgic Disavowals in the Postcinematic Era (in Flickers of Film) by Jason Sperb

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Time for our first guest-hosted episode—Scott Pilgrim, featuring editor, copyeditor, and critic Kat Overland! We ended up having too much to say solely on the topic of genre, so we’ll be splitting this one into two episodes. Join us as we chat about growing up and alongside a single piece of media, why Scott Pilgrim is shonen battle manga, and more!

Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:

The Wonder and Horror of Delayed Adulthood by Vikram Murthi

Scott Pilgrim vs the future of comics publishing by Padmini Ray Murray

Scott Pilgrim vs. Loneliness: A Video Essay by Noah McAlister

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Times by Brendan Gillet

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Join us for Merri’s last WWBUT before maternity leave! We’re talking about cults, labyrinths, romance, and more.

Mistakes: At some point, Missy heard someone pronounce Borges as “BOR-hays” and assumed that they were right. They were not, but she didn’t thinking to look it up until afterward. Sorry for calling him HOR-hay BOR-hays.

What Missy’s Been Up To:

Reading

DIE by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans, Clayton Cowell, and Rian Huges
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman
Wordslut by Amanda Montell

Watching

Red, White, and Royal Blue
The Boy and the Heron

What Merri’s Been Up To:

Watching

The Great British Bake-Off
Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
The Crown
Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God

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