Episode 839: A Star Trek Solution to a Throuples Therapy Problem
On the Overthinking It Podcast we tackle “Deadpool & Wolverine.”
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Episode 730: Something is Happening While Nothing is Happening
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle “Downton Abbey: A New Era,” the latest entry in the Downton Cinematic Universe.
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Episode 516: That Indeed Was Cold
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we break the fourth wall.
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Episode 501: Our Ad is for Non-Chumps
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we talk Altered Carb… just kidding! It’s our annual look at the Super Bowl commercials and halftime show.
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The 10 Best “Best Albums of 2015” Lists of 2015
Who ranks the rankings? We do.
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Beyond Winners and Losers: Failure and Learning in the Meta-Game of Thrones
Why short-term failure might be the key to long-term survival in Game of Thrones.
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A Meta-Game Theory of Thrones
Can game theory help to explain who wins and who dies in Game of Thrones?
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The Lego Movie: Are We Lego, Or Are We Meta-Lego?
We follow the major plot twist in The Lego Movie down the literary critical rabbit hole.
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Silent Star, Surfer, Spy: Jean Dujardin and Characters About Characters
This Sunday, Jean Dujardin won the Best Actor Oscar for the role of Georg Valentin in The Artist, playing a charismatic silent movie actor incapable of coping with the world of sound. Intellectually motivated movies about movies tend to punch … Continued
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Overthunk: Writing About Music
Writing about music is hard. Writing about writing about music is relatively easy, so that’s what I did.