Remedial Studies

Remedial Studies

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Remedial Studies episodes

  • Episode 23: Hozier's "Nina Cried Power - EP"
    It's not the waking, it's the rising. Our favorite fae prince turned folk singer has returned to us at last, and in his wake comes a sound that fits with the moment we're in, and, oh boy, do we feel some kind of way about it.
    Talking points: the four genres of Hozier songs; a microcosm of a vibe; protest as process, not just an event; Andrew Hozier-Bryne is the only person allowed to at us about this show; apocalyptic love and the interplay of rage and hope; the space been initiation and consummation; when an artist's standards for himself make you forget just how good he really is; and, hey, it's gonna be okay, robots.
    Indie Spotlight: @archive81
    1 hr 3 min
  • Episode 23: Hozier's "Nina Cried Power - EP"
    It's not the waking, it's the rising. Our favorite fae prince turned folk singer has returned to us at last, and in his wake comes a sound that fits with the moment we're in, and, oh boy, do we feel some kind of way about it.
    Talking points: the four genres of Hozier songs; a microcosm of a vibe; protest as process, not just an event; Andrew Hozier-Bryne is the only person allowed to at us about this show; apocalyptic love and the interplay of rage and hope; the space been initiation and consummation; when an artist's standards for himself make you forget just how good he really is; and, hey, it's gonna be okay, robots.
    Indie Spotlight: @archive81
    1 hr 3 min
  • Episode 22: Tomi Adeyemi's "Children of Blood and Bone"
    We return to you after a brief hiatus to take you to the land of Orisha, and into the journey of a young woman seeking to bring magic back into a world that feels all too real.
    Talking Points: The limitations of empathy when it comes from places of privilege; is power only power when it's used as a weapon; the importance of stories other than our own; how Inan needed to be Zuko, but was too much of a Hamlet to pull it off; questions means nothing if you're not willing to answer them; how centrism ultimately favors the side of the oppressor; making the personal genocidal; and, hey, don't let anyone's ignorance silence your pain.
    51 min
  • Episode 22: Tomi Adeyemi's "Children of Blood and Bone"
    We return to you after a brief hiatus to take you to the land of Orisha, and into the journey of a young woman seeking to bring magic back into a world that feels all too real.
    Talking Points: The limitations of empathy when it comes from places of privilege; is power only power when it's used as a weapon; the importance of stories other than our own; how Inan needed to be Zuko, but was too much of a Hamlet to pull it off; questions means nothing if you're not willing to answer them; how centrism ultimately favors the side of the oppressor; making the personal genocidal; and, hey, don't let anyone's ignorance silence your pain.
    51 min
  • Episode 21: Terry Pratchett's "Feet of Clay"
    Hail and well met, citizens of Ankh-Morpork! We've reached the third installment of our Remedial Readalong series, and if you thought our good buddy Terry had run out of punches to pull, well...if you've done the reading you know how wrong you were. Join us as we journey back to the city full of turmoil, intrigue, existential crisis, and buddy cop comedy!
    Talking points: We're so messed up about this book, you could make a drinking game out of it; Uncle Terry piling on the facets of cultural and self-inflicted oppression; what, if anything, puts the artificial in artificial intelligence; how terrifying it is to be free; what it means to be constructed and not born; dwarven gender expression in the workplace; we can't get over that there's a vampire named Dragon; and, hey, who decides when a person is a person?
    59 min
  • Episode 21: Terry Pratchett's "Feet of Clay"
    Hail and well met, citizens of Ankh-Morpork! We've reached the third installment of our Remedial Readalong series, and if you thought our good buddy Terry had run out of punches to pull, well...if you've done the reading you know how wrong you were. Join us as we journey back to the city full of turmoil, intrigue, existential crisis, and buddy cop comedy!
    Talking points: We're so messed up about this book, you could make a drinking game out of it; Uncle Terry piling on the facets of cultural and self-inflicted oppression; what, if anything, puts the artificial in artificial intelligence; how terrifying it is to be free; what it means to be constructed and not born; dwarven gender expression in the workplace; we can't get over that there's a vampire named Dragon; and, hey, who decides when a person is a person?
    59 min
  • Episode 20: Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda's "Monstress"
    For our big 2-0, our teeth and claws are ready to shred as we bring you a story of women and the monsters who reside in them.
    Talking points: this comic left us Straight Up Messed Up; the nature and impact of time and betrayal; the old gods and the new wars; Plath's figs; the importance of seeing the Other in fiction; the job prospects of cats; why can't the world just be art deco; Kippa is the cutest moral compass; and, hey, we say this a lot but PLEASE read this comic immediately.
    Shout-outs this episode: @lithappenspods and @loadedlitpod
    52 min
  • Episode 19: Norman Jewison's "Moonstruck"
    Once upon a time in Brooklyn, where the moon lights up the sky with reckless romantic possibility, we bring you the story of love both as it is and as it could be, fueled by brutality, gentleness, and the raw, unstoppable power of 80s Cher and Nicky Cage.
    Talking points: the longest summary segment yet (but we promise it's all necessary); how a spread in character age lends legitimacy to romantic subplots; love as a gendered power struggle; bringing the operatic to the cinematic; heightened setting and grounded character; Nicolas Cage's arms; and, hey, why do men chase women?
    Our indie creator spotlight this episode falls on Michi @RequiemPluie.
    55 min
  • Episode 19: Norman Jewison's "Moonstruck"
    Once upon a time in Brooklyn, where the moon lights up the sky with reckless romantic possibility, we bring you the story of love both as it is and as it could be, fueled by brutality, gentleness, and the raw, unstoppable power of 80s Cher and Nicky Cage.
    Talking points: the longest summary segment yet (but we promise it's all necessary); how a spread in character age lends legitimacy to romantic subplots; love as a gendered power struggle; bringing the operatic to the cinematic; heightened setting and grounded character; Nicolas Cage's arms; and, hey, why do men chase women?
    Our indie creator spotlight this episode falls on Michi @RequiemPluie.
    55 min
  • Episode 18: The Wachowskis' "Jupiter Ascending"
    It was a dark and stormy night, when your loyal hosts sat down to discuss a film that...well. It was something. Through sparse and disjointed plot, effects galore and spectacular, and a love interest straight out of novels we would have written in middle school, we bring to you a story of media not objectively good nor groundbreaking, but worthwhile just the same.
    Talking points: Spectacle over story; how to know someone is a villain by their economic views; if bees are the most trustworthy insects; how turning the camp up to eleven is a good thing; you are greater than the sum of your genes; a five minute Christopher Nolan roast; sometimes it's just not that deep; and, hey, you don't need a reason to like things.
    1 hr

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Remedial Studies is a podcast by two nerdy ladies who just want to make the world listen to our academic opinions on the most nonacademic subjects. No media form is off limits! Books people call…