Why Are Alternate Histories So Negative?
The Overthinkers tackle HBO’s “Confederate” and the overwhelming negativity of alternate history stories.
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Episode 473: Teach Me How to Dunkirk
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle Christopher Nolan’s brutally intense but very compelling new film “Dunkirk.”
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Episode 455: Don’t Woke The Beast
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle the live action remake of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” starring Emma Watson.
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Episode 448: Hidden Figures: The People Who Weren’t In “The Right Stuff”
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we discuss Oscar contender Hidden Figures, the relationship between individual accomplishment and social progress, and our own immigrant pasts.
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Episode 415: Hamilton Doesn’t Scale
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we talk “Hamilton” on the eve of the Tony awards.
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Myth, History and Game of Thrones
What can Arthurian legend, Norse myth, and Greek tragedy tell us about where Game of Thrones is headed?
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Episode 251: Christopher Columbus’s Zodiac Pontoon Boat
The Overthinkers tackle Shana Mlawski’s Hammer of Witches and subversive genre fiction.
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Episode 231: They Did Go Hungry Again
The Overthinkers tackle Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, starring Daniel Day Lewis.
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Episode 120: Magical Realist Jackass-scape
The Overthinkers Tackle the 20th anniversary of IMDb, Jackass 3D, high-culture fart jokes, and mortification of the flesh.
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A People’s History of the NYPD: Howard Zinn, The Other Guys and the Cinema of the Unsung
A movie for the little cops.