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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)]

Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather overthinking what we talk about when we talk about loss, especially the way in which disaster clarifies our understanding of what matters in the world.

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Episode 541: You Left With The Pictures 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, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather want to find them somebody to love, but it’s probably not this movie. We talk mostly about the problems with Bohemian Rhapsody, as we overthink a film that works very hard to jam its subject into a conventional mold, but for all that ends up all the more confounding to interpretation.

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Episode 540: You’re a Wizard, Freddy Mercury 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, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink confectionary allsorts as they consider candy and non-candy sweets, what makes candy good (or very, very bad), and what the best haul on Halloween would be.

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Episode 539: The Baby Ruth of Theseus 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, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather tackle the famous Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Darmok” on the slenderest of pretexts, considering metaphor as a metaphor for metaphor, as a metaphor for all human communication and artistic endeavor, and as a metaphor for human unity and cultural difference. Nobody is more surprised than us when we stick the landing here.

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Episode 538: The Dead Author of Your Own Fiction 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)]

Rachel D, Mark Lee, and Ryan Sheely overthink rock nostalgia through the lens of two very different stage musicals: Pop Punk High and Jagged Little Pill.

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Episode 537: Everything Was Better When I Was a Baby 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, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather watch Bradley Cooper’s remake of A Star Is Born, starring Lady Gaga, and find it a fascinating and affecting exploration of art, life, art-life, authenticity and artifice, rock and pop, and whether stars are born or made.

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Episode 536: What You’re Thinking Of Is Pygmalion’s Monster 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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Episode 535: Screen Practice 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)]