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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather journey deep into the eye of the Starfish to comprehend the psycho-sexual phantasmagoria of James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad the only film of 2021 that actually makes some kind of sense.

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Episode 684: The Film’s Heart Was in the Middle of the Starfish 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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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather start by postulating that they didn’t go to see the new Jungle Cruise movie form Disney, and end up, naturally enough, with Pete cleaning out his garage and Matt deciding that, dang it, he should buy that $17.99 bottle of Syrah. Routines, infrastructures, and the hierarchy of entertainments suspiciously resembling Maslow’s hierarchy of needs are discussed.

Bonus coffee recommendation from Matt.

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Episode 683: Are You More of a Jungler Or More of a Cruiser 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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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather are not satisfied with your glib reading of Space Jam: A New Legacy, starring LeBron James as a character named LeBron James but who is not LeBron James. They overthink the surprising contradictions of the film, which yokes fundamentally incompatible missions together in the same (cyber)space basketball game.

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Episode 682: If Warner Bros. Is God, Which I Think They Think They Are 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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Jordan Stokes joins Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather to overthink the current state of the MCU. Or is it the MCM now? Black Widow is kind of a repositioning cruise, so even though the experience is a little disjointed there are things to enjoy. And Loki was a great half-season of television!

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Episode 681: I’m Glad That I Saw the Marvel Property That Had an Alligator with a Funny Hat 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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Matthew Belinkie joins with news of his newest moonshot project, an original animated music video to his own mash-up of WAP and the original Space Jam theme song. He tells Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather about it, and they are led to overthink Richard Branson’s mashup of himself and being in space.

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Episode 680: Richard Branson, the First Billionaire to go to Prom 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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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather overthink Bo Burnham’s Netflix special Inside, and try to make sense of their own ambitions for and reactions to that championship season.

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Episode 679: That Championship Sesason 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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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather return to the franchise that inspires more passionate overthinking than any other — the Fast and Furious universe, as they overthink F9: The Fast Saga. They talk about the organizing visual and thematic material of the film, its ambitions and relations to the previous films in the franchise. TL;DR: Go see it.

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Episode 678: A Saga is a Multi-Generational Story about a Family 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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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather watch Jon Chu’s film adaptation of In The Heights, with songs by Lin Manuel Miranda. They go in a number of directions, but they more or less add up to the strangeness of the experience of watching this work from 2005, with its particular concerns, in 2021.

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Episode 677: Hardcore Musicals 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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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather take a trip back to the 80s to re-watch Scarface, which (this is getting to be a theme) they find to be stranger and more interesting than they remember. They discuss the aim and the art of the film, the incredible performance by Pacino, and they wonder a little bit about why this film’s poster graces every dorm room wall in America.

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Episode 676: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Cockroaches 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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Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, and Matthew Wrather gather to overthink Mare of Easttown, streaming on HBO Max. They talk about types of the “detective show” genre, and how Mare deals with clues and information, character development, and the structure of a mystery. They point out that a priest is different from a deacon. And, so as not to lose sight of the best thing about it, they praise the actors, especially Kate Winslet, who is awesome.

Spoilers for this (very spoil-able) detective show! (The first is that it’s not a detective show. Not completely.)

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Episode 675: I Don’t Have Murder Suspects, I Got Family 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)]