Game of Thrones Unlocked: Season 7 Episode 2, “Stormborn”
This week on Game of Thrones: Astonishingly character-grounded and non-pointless lovemaking, to remind us that we actually care.
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Overthinking Eurovision 2017: All Things Flow
Can Francesco Gabbani reconcile western materialism with eastern spirituality in Italy’s 2017 entry in the Eurovision Song Contest?
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Horror Worth Watching: The VVitch
The VVitch brings cosmic horror uncomfortably close to home.
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’Merica Madness: Sex Round 1
Let’s get it on.
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Turn Down For What and the Party Fetish
Let’s talk about sex…and why this video ties itself in knots over it.
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Overthinking Cowboy Bebop: The One-Eyed Spike and the One-Handed Jet
Who knew that Cowboy Bebop was basing its characters on Proto-Indo-European mythology? French philologist Georges Dumezil, that’s who!
Game Of Thrones Unlocked: Season 6 Episode 8 “No One”
Who should rule Westeros? The man with the plan, or the man with the knife to that man’s neck?
Game of Thrones Unlocked: Season 6, Episode 6 “Blood of my Blood”
This week, Game of Thrones asks its characters who they really are, and gets some pretty wide-ranging answers.
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Game Of Thrones Unlocked: Season 6, Episode 4, “Book of the Stranger”
Game of Thrones is a show about magic, and trauma, and people refusing to talk about magic or trauma.
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Rap Genius Can’t Explain Rakim’s Genius Rapping
Annotation can only get you so far in understanding what makes great rap work so well.
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