Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather cannot believe what is going on in their Facebook feeds. Why are people saying such awful things about Guardians of the Glaaxy, Vol. 2?! They ask whether sentimentality is a sufficient condition for a movie, and they wonder what makes a great wedding reception playlist, with detours into literary criticism, acting technique, and music theory.

(This episode was pre-taped.)

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Episode 463: The Emotional Transportation Business 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 form a small podcast family to fight endlessly about Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which we read primarily as a movie about parents and children, growth and care, learning and development. Special reference to the developmental psychology of Erik Erikson.

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France’s choice of a centrist president isn’t the only reason Europe has to party this week—the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest are being held in Kiev! As in years past, Overthinking It will be throwing the greatest Eurovision party in New York, and you are all invited to join us!

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The Overthinking It Book Club returns with a look at George Orwell’s classic novel of authoritarianism and political dystopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four. In four episodes of downloadable audio, the OTI crew dives deep into the strangely familiar world of the story and follows our everyman hero Winston as he navigates the murky waters of loyalty, individuality, doublethink, and thought crime. It’s the perfect counterpart—or corrective to—The Circle.

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Episode 462: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Whistle While You Work 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 try to make sense of the frankly incoherent—in both project and tone—film The Circle, an adaptation of Dave Eggers’s satirical novel of the same name.

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The Overthinking It Book Club returns with a look at George Orwell’s classic novel of authoritarianism and political dystopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four. In four episodes of downloadable audio, the OTI crew dives deep into the strangely familiar world of the story and follows our everyman hero Winston as he navigates the murky waters of loyalty, individuality, doublethink, and thought crime. It’s the perfect counterpart—or corrective to—The Circle.

Get The OTI Book Club Now!

Episode 461: Goodbye Cruel World. Please Remember to Like and Subscribe. 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 Matt Wrather squeeze mightily at the bag of discourse surrounding the Juicero.

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Episode 460: Let Us Unloose the Juice 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 roar to the finish line of Family Week with this podcast on The Fate of the Furious, the latest entry in the Fastiverse. In talking about the film’s over-arching themes, we finally answer the age-old question: “Which matters more, the car or the driver?”

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Episode 459: The Fate of the Furious: Having a Kid Isn’t a Ten Second Race 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)]

Pete Fenzel and Matt Wrather talk over contributions from listeners Levi, Jesse, Howard, and Nathan, and try not to remember that it’s not about us, it’s about the family.

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Episode 458: The Shared Lived Experience of Being Fast and Furious 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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Pete and Matt join forces for one of their Storied® two-handers, and they can barely contain their excitement the F8 that is coming for all of us.

In an episode that considers the idea of family from many angles, the guys issue a challenge: Let’s serve up next week’s podcast family style.

Send an email or a voice memo to [email protected] or use (203) 285–6401 to text or leave a voicemail (nobody will answer!) and answer one of these questions:

We’ll include at least some of your contributions on Episode 458.

And don’t forget: Pick up a copy of The Overview: The Fast and the Furious to revisit where it all began.

Episode 457: How Can We Not Talk about Family When Family’s All That We Got? 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, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather examine the phonological and prosodic implications of the title Everyone Poops, share the mobile games they’ve been playing on their phones, and discuss how competing interests have designed our wasted time. And remember:

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Episode 456: Fighter Pilot, Space Commander, Mass- Murdering Plumber 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, Rachel, Ryan Sheely, and Matthew Wrather overthink the remake of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and ask all the important questions: Is it woke? Why a remake? When is it set, and what does our knowledge of French political history add to the plot? And are the songs any good?

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Episode 455: Don’t Woke The Beast 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 rush into the bedroom to gather up the discursive children interrupting the important analysis of the BCC Korea Expert’s video. In the end, only one thing is clear: If you imbue the graven image with some sort of philosophical quality or some sort of normative quality, you’ve probably done something false.

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Episode 454: SNAFU 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)]