Everybody’s Free (To Stream Movies)
Is legal streaming taking over where illegal downloading once reigned? Your mid-thirties correspondent reflects.
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Netflix on Overthinking It
Tracing the Lineage of Bojack Horseman
Bojack Horseman owes a lot to Cerebus the Aardvark – whether he knows it or not
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100 Days, 100 Nights: Marvel Series and Netflix Bloat
Why are Marvel’s Netflix series 13 episodes when they could be 10? or 8?
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The Three Kinds of Black Mirror Episode
Black Mirror raises questions about more than just technology, and does so in three very different ways.
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Episode 424: Stranger Things: The Horror Is at Home
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle the Netflix original series “Stranger Things,” starring Winona Ryder and Matthew Modine.
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Episode 407: Are You There, Matt? It’s Me, Netflix.
On the Overthinking It podcast, we discuss Tina Fey’s “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” starring Ellie Kemper. Season 2 just dropped on Netflix.
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The Impossibility of Recovering: Guilt as Fuel in Daredevil
In its second season, Daredevil turns inward, examining the causes, effects, and paradoxes of guilt
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Why Pee-wee Works for a Big, New Generation
Twenty-five years after Playhouse, the childlike, sexually ambiguous Pee-wee Herman is a perfect archetype for the world of 2016.
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Jessica Jones: Agent of Agency
With Season 2 of Netflix’s Daredevil around the corner, we analyze the first season of Jessica Jones and its unblinking deconstruction of free will and responsibility.
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What Ever Happened to Predictability? Nostalgia and the Full House Revival
What are we actually nostalgic for when we watch the new reboot of Full House?
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