Episode 746: The Angela Lansbury EGOT Case, and What’s Messed Up about It
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we pay tribute to the patron saint of Actors Who Work, the late Angela Lansbury.
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Episode 556: Well, I Saw “The Blind Side” and I Liked It
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle the Oscars and the reasons why we’re not watching them.
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Episode 552: Death Actually Is All Around Us
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”
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Episode 542: Old Country for No Men
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle “Widows,” a heist film starring Viola Davis from celebrated director Steve McQueen.
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Episode 452: The Good Wine the First Time or the Good Wine the Second Time
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle the 89th Academy Awards, and the botched announcement of Moonlight’s Oscar win over La La Land.
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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 400: Part of the Problem is That You Didn’t Invite Vin Diesel
On the podcast, we tackle the 88th Academy Awards, Chris Rock, Oscar winners, Spotlight, Mad Max: Fury Road, and the unconscionable Furious 7 snub.
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Episode 399: Selena Gomez Gets Pedantic
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we mark the passing of Harper Lee by rehabilitating High School English books that are actually good. And we grudgingly think about watching year’s crop of Best Picture nominees.
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Episode 394: I Was a Big Fan of My Work
On the Overthinking It Podcast we talk about the many notable snubs of the 2016 Oscar nominations and mark the passing of David Bowie and Alan Rickman with appreciations of their careers.
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Episode 343: The 800-Pound Benedict Cumberbatch in The Room
The Overthinkers tackle deflate-gate, “Mozart in the Jungle,” and the Alan Turing biopic “The Imitation Game” starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
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