The Darkest Timeline? Fate and Free Will in “The Man in the High Castle” and “Community”
From Greendale Community College to Nazi Occupied America, everyone must make a choice to weather the storm of randomness, or to fight it.
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Posts by Mark Lee on Overthinking It
NYCC 2015: Cosplayers Are Large. Cosplayers Contain Multitudes.
Is cosplay just geeky dress-up, or is it actually a powerful, authentic pathway to self-actualization? Mark Lee talks to the cosplayers and cosplay vendors at New York Comic-Con to find out.
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NYCC 2015: The Economics of Star Trek
Mark Lee beams up the author of “Trekonomics” to discuss terminal abundance, whether capitalism is part of human nature, and the coming reputation-based economy. Also Riker.
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Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Butt Rock
Because the Body of Rock has many anatomical parts.
Do Killer Robot Inventors Watch Killer Robot Movies?
How do two computer science nerds spend a week contemplating the nature of artificial intelligence without ever referencing Skynet or HAL 9000?
The Return Of The Overview
For the first time, all 11 titles in The Overview collection are now available! Watch your favorite movies with your smart, funny friends from the Internet.
The Overview: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Watch Terminator 2: Judgment Day with the Overthinkers. Our alternative commentary track tackles the moral, religious, and philosophical themes of one of the greatest action movies of all time.
Episode 364: Inside Out: I Know Now Why You Cry, And I’m Going To Do It
The Overthinkers tackle Inside Out through the lens of Robert Plutchik’s psychoevolutionary theory of emotion and, what else, Terminator.
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Eurovision 2015 NYC Viewing Party: May 23, 2015, 2 PM
The next best thing to partying in Vienna.
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A Sharknado has struck the United States every year since 2013. Here’s everything you need to know.
What is a shark? A “shark” is one of any number of “fish” characterized by cartilaginous skeletons, gill slits, pectoral fins that are not fused to the head, and a voracious appetite for human flesh. What is a tornado? A … Continued
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