Overthinking It Podcast

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June 13, 2013 Podcast Supplement: Game of Thrones Season 3 Recap
Peter Fenzel, and Matthew Wrather recap Game of Thrones Season 3, in a special Podcast Supplement.
*SPOILER ALERT* for Game of Thrones Season 3. (We also discuss some adaptation choices from the books, but don’t discuss future developments.)
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Podcast Supplement: Game of Thrones Season 3 Recap 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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June 10, 2013Episode 258: Superman during The Purge
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather discuss fictional dystopian surveillance states, recourse to works of fiction in political discourse, PRISM, and The Purge.
Spoilers for George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Further Reading
Big Brother is Hugging You
Hedley Lamarr from Blazing Saddles vs. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr](Hedy Lamarr)
The Purge
Alternative Titltes for This Episode
It’s Watchmen All The Way Down
TCP/IP Werewolf Communications
The Surveillance State that Makes Us Buy Cereal
Big Wrather is Watching
In The 24th Century, Nobody Hates Each Other Because Everybody Hates Each Other
I Just Purged All Over Myself
Episode 258: Superman during The Purge 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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June 03, 2013Episode 257: Arrested Development: A New Start
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather are joined by Ben Snitkoff to overthink the fourth season of Arrested Development on Netflix.
Spoiler Alert for all four seasons of Arrested Development.
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Further Reading
[NPR’S Arrested Development Running Joke Guide](http://apps.npr.org/arrested-development/
Episode 257: Arrested Development: A New Start 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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May 27, 2013 Episode 256: Are We Not Fast? Are We Not Furious?
Ben Adams, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink (Fast &) Furious 6.
Spoiler Alert for Fast & Furious 6 and the whole franchise.
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May 20, 2013Episode 255: I Think I Like Star Trek 2 Better Than Star Trek 2
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Jordan Stokes and Matthew Wrather are joined by Ben Krinsky to overthink J. J. Abrams’s Star Trek Into Darkness.
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Spoiler Alert for Into Darkness and the whole Star Trek Universe.
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Further Reading
Felicity on IMDb
The Philosophy of Batman: Literary Theory Edition by Jordan Stokes
I Boldly Went Where Every Star Trek Movie and TV Show Has Gone Before by Matthew Yglesias
OTI Classics
The Eels Have Eyes by John Perich
Episode 255: I Think I Like Star Trek 2 Better Than Star Trek 2 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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May 13, 2013 Episode 254: Gatsby… You Don’t Have to Put on The Green Light
Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, and Matthew Wrather deliver an episode epic in both length and scope, covering high school reading lists classics, the Eurovision Song Contest, and Baz Luhrmann’s cinematic interpretation of The Great Gatsby.
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Episode 254: Gatsby… You Don’t Have to Put on The Green Light 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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May 06, 2013Episode 253: Iron Man 3: Bitten by a Radioactive 1980s
Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather overthink Iron Man 3, focusing on the allegorical, philosophical, geopolitical, military, cultural and interpersonal allegories at play in the film.
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Further Reading
NY Times Review of Iron Man 2 by Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis on Rotten Tomatoes
Egg Fu
Episode 253: Iron Man 3: Bitten by a Radioactive 1980s 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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April 29, 2013 Episode 252: Perhaps. But Not Today.
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Richard Rosenbaum, and Matthew Wrather are joined by Benjamin Krinsky to overthink Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes “The Best of Both Worlds” parts 1 and 2, which were recently screened in movie theaters.
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April 22, 2013Episode 251: Christopher Columbus’s Zodiac Pontoon Boat
Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather are joined by Shana Mlawski to overthink her young adult fantasy novel Hammer of Witches.
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Hammer of Witches by Shana Mlawski
Hammer of Witches (Hardcover)
Hammer of Witches (Kindle)
Further Reading
If I Had A Hammer
Street Sharks on Wikipedia and Street Sharks on Wikia
Hammer Time from Team America World Police
Hammerspace
Borgs of Innocence and Experience
Muppet Babies
The Big Idea: Shana Mlawski on John Scalzi’s Whatever
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Episode 251: Christopher Columbus’s Zodiac Pontoon Boat 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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April 15, 2013 Episode 250: Pointing a Pentium III at a Dinosaur
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather are joined by Carrie Drzik to overthink Jurassic Park 3-D.
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Episode 250: Pointing a Pentium III at a Dinosaur 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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