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April 24, 2023Episode 773: This is the Why
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Season 3 of Mandalorian, focusing on what exactly the way is, why the show seems to be pulling its punches, and how it compares (unfavorably, alas!) to Andor.
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Further Reading
Tao Te Ching
Montesquieu
The Timothy Zahn trilogy
Episode 773: This is the Why 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)]
1 hr 5 min
April 17, 2023Episode 772: I’m Not a Derry Girl, Not Yet a Derry Woman
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink the sitcom Derry Girls, talking about the relationship between time and retro-time (“Retro time, Data, retro time!”), between the ex post facto view of history and the experience of living through it, and the difference or relationship between comedy, tragedy, and historical events.
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Further Reading
Derry Girls on Netflix
The Troubles on Wikipedia
“Seinfeld – The Twin Towers Script”
Blackadder on Wikipedia
Hogan’s Heroes on Wikipedia
F-Troop on Wikipedia
“Why Women Aren’t Funny” by Christopher Hitchens
Episode 772: I’m Not a Derry Girl, Not Yet a Derry Woman 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)]
1 hr 6 min
April 10, 2023Episode 771: …Yeah
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink John Wick: Chapter 4, exploring its Downton Abbey moment (amazingly, not when tea is served!), its expectation-defying schema of light, the world of the franchise and how it got that way, the one relationship that moves beyond the transactional, and the film’s climactic dogpotheosis.
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Further Reading
Liberty Leading the People
The Raft of the Medusa
Episode 771: …Yeah 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)]
1 hr 19 min
April 03, 2023Episode 770: The Electric Daisy Carnival
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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather overthink the objects we keep in our (zippered, vest) pockets every day, and enter a sub-culture that can verge at times on military cosplay.
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Further Reading
“26 Ludicrously Capacious Bags to Carry Your Ego and Everything Else You Need” (E! Online)
“What is a ‘ludicrously capacious’ bag, and why is everyone talking about it?” (today.com)
“Tekken 8 Confirms Leroy, Asuka Have Made the Cut” (pushsquare.com)
Episode 770: The Electric Daisy Carnival 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)]
1 hr 7 min
March 27, 2023 Episode 769: Just a Plain Giovanni, Salt of the Medici
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Peter Fenzel, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather overthink The Menu and Triangle of Sadness, movies in which the rich eat, and we are encouraged to eat the rich. Focusing mostly on the longer and more analytical Triangle, the crew of the S.S. Overthinking It tends to the needs of our guests, the audience without question or pause. How extreme wealth is represented, the intersectional social commentary that includes class, race, and disability in its account, and what really happens at the end of the film all come up in the lively discussion.
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Episode 769: Just a Plain Giovanni, Salt of the Medici 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)]
1 hr 9 min
March 20, 2023Episode 768: The Labors of Brocules
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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather overthink a video of the actor Jonathan Majors giving a speech praising and celebrating his friend and colleague Michael B. Jordan, on the occasion of Jordan’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame being unveiled. They discuss the moving sincerity of their friendship, the place of oratory among actors (just around the corner from where the Oscars are held), the antithetical structure of the speech, and some resonant and touching moments in it, each of which creates a world in a sentence or two.
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Further Reading
Jonathan Majors: IMDb, Wikipedia
Michael B. Jordan: IMDb, Wikipedia
The Labors of Hercules
The history of “I love you to the moon and back.”
Bonita Granville on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Canoga Park
Astyanax
Episode 768: The Labors of Brocules 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)]
1 hr 6 min
March 13, 2023 Episode 767: Exegesis on Luhrmannism
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, focusing on the effect of the unexpected point of view and the film’s decidedly Lhurmannesque style.
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Episode 767: Exegesis on Luhrmannism 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)]
1 hr 10 min
March 06, 2023Episode 766: Dad Also Has a Cow on His Head
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather take the kids to a concert of kids’ music. They consider how even to describe a theater to a children, and how they function within the various social-cultural institutions at play.
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Further Reading
The Cabot 360-degree view
The Four Causes on Wikipedia
Lori Berkner
Take Me With You, Peter Alsop
Episode 766: Dad Also Has a Cow on His Head 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)]
1 hr 10 min
February 27, 2023Episode 765: Your Grapple with Graupel
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather
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Further Reading
“Fire and Ice,” Robert Frost
“Severe Weather 101,” National Severe Storms Laboratory
“Ice,” Wikipedia
“Ice, Ice, Baby” Lyrics
Joel Schumacher (IMDb)
“The Snow Man,” Wallace Stevens
“Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer,” SNL
Episode 765: Your Grapple with Graupel 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)]
1 hr 4 min
February 20, 2023 Episode 764: And Yet It Moves Me
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Mark Lee, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather overthink classical music in light of Gustavo Dudamel’s move from LA to New York. They struggle with a definition of classical music, and to theorize about uselessness and artiness. They talk about how the Western European art music of the common practice tradition plays a role in their own lives.
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Easy Listening
“Gustavo Dudamel will leave the L.A. Phil for the N.Y. Philharmonic”
“Gustavo Dudamel: A Maestro at a Crossroads”
<a href="https://adamneelymusic.bandcamp.com/album/two-microtonal-lo-fi-jams">two microtonal lo-fi jams by Adam Neely</a>
Episode 764: And Yet It Moves Me 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)]
1 hr 11 min