Ninja Turtles 2014 in Context
How does the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie compare to other notable adaptations? Richard Rosenbaum gives you The Ugly, the Bad and the Good (in that order).
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Television on Overthinking It
Archer, How I Met Your Mother, and Comedic Reinvention
How I Met Your Mother and Archer have reinvented themselves for the 2013-2014 TV season. Why would a comedy change courses so drastically?
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One For The Money, Two For The Money
How much of our favorite TV storylines can be reduced to one simple explanation?
Futurama’s arguments neither particularly in favour of nor against television, Or: how everybody learned to stop worrying and love the Hypnotoad
Everybody Loves Hypnotoad, but what does that tell us about the ideology of television?
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Think Tank: When Good Shows Go Bad
A lot of great shows run out of steam long before they leave the airwaves. In this Think Tank, the Overthinkers discuss those once mighty shows and why they fell. What show do you think fell furthest and why?
We ARE out of touch with America: OTI’s POPULAR Popular Culture Survey Results
What shows are OverthinkingIt.com readers watching? Why? We didn’t know so we decided to ask them. Here are the results from our popular culture survey.
The Flattening of Westeros
Some more thoughts on simplified moral calculus of HBO’s Game of Thrones.
Overthunk: Five Ways Mad Men Could Jump the Shark
What would have to happen to ruin a great TV show like Mad Men?
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The Economics of Niche Programming
There’s a reason Firefly got canceled.
Overthinking Cowboy Bebop: Session 23
Cowboy Bebop takes a turn for the self-reflective, raises doubts about the persistence of identity, and throws a dog into a minefield. Kind of a busy half-hour, truth be told.