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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather watch Indiana Jones and the Problematic Fave as they answer the scurrilous charge by another podcaster that Raiders of the Lost Ark belongs in the dustbin of history.

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Episode 551: It Would Be Easier If “Raiders of the Lost Ark” Were Awful 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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Members receive extra audio recorded with each Overthinking It Podcast. This week, a special round of Jeopardy! written by Matt Belinkie, featuring clues about our favorite raspy-voiced celebrity, Harvey Feirstein!

Matthew Belinkie, new father Mark Lee, Peter Fenzel, and Matt Wrather discuss Jeopardy!, the perfect infant-care background TV show. Favorite game shows, what constitutes a game show, the cultural and political dynamics of the game, the role of Alex Trebek, and an actual round of Jeopardy on this episode.

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Episode 550: The Birds and the Bees and the Buzzers 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)]

Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, and Matthew Wrather come together as a secretive cabal to overthink Vice, more a film with documents than a documentary; more a polemic than a biopic; a film as much concerned with argumentation as with storytelling.

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Episode 549: How Do We Never Forget? 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)]

Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather read the signs of the times. They sing Auld Lang Sign. They print out a sign in comic sans. They drive on the interstate. They wonder if capitalism is truly “late.” They find their way on the highway and borrow a book from the diner.

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Episode 548: The Real Signs Are The Paper Ones 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 Mary Poppins Returns, but the various spoonfuls of sugar don’t make the medicine go down.

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Episode 547: In Cherry Tree Lane the Cherry Blossoms Grow 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 swing in from several dimensions to overthink Sony’s new animated Spider-Man movie, Into The Spider-Verse. Matt doesn’t know the difference between John Mulaney and John Krasinski; Pete is sitting alone in a room full of teenagers; and Mark wonders if the movie is having it both ways.

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Episode 546: Eating My Old Man Kit-Kat 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 overthink Wreck It Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks the Internet, a movie engineered to make children happy and adults sad.

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Episode 545: Ralph Breaks The Internet: A Really Proustian Movie 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 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)]

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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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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)]

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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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)]