Star Trek: Discovery – Hot Takes Incoming
Ideas, anachronisms, social commentary, lens flare. These are some things about the new Star Trek show.
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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 372: Straight Outta Compton: A Story of the Saints
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle “Straight Outta Compton,” the Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and N.W.A.’s seminal album.
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Gender and Race: The Relationship Between Same-Sex Couples and Interracial Depictions in Television
Why are same-sex TV couples more likely to be interracial than straight TV couples?
Why “Sweet Home Alabama” Is The Most Effective Protest Song of All Time
Where the skies are so blue, and the governor’s true.
Episode 53: Chekhov’s Bag Of Peas
Sheely and Wrather discuss thematic unity, group membership, and class difference in Friday Night Lights Season 1, Episodes 8 and 9.
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Boardwalk Empire: The Old World and the New
Why are Nucky and Jimmy so bad at being gangsters? Because gangsters haven’t been invented yet.
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The First Non-Avenger: Captain America and His Non-Struggles Against the Holocaust and Racism
How would the “Captain America” movie be different if it tackled more difficult subject matter?
Race and Diversity in Justin Bieber Music Videos
Bieber Fever meets Microsoft Excel and race/ethnicity demographics
Zombie Miscellany: Music and Post-Apocalyptic Racism
A few last points to wrap up our week-long consideration of The Walking Dead.
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