A People’s History of the NYPD: Howard Zinn, The Other Guys and the Cinema of the Unsung
A movie for the little cops.
The Wire on Overthinking It
Episode 21: After School Commons
Sheely, Stokes, and Wrather begin TFT summer school by examining the UK TV series Skins.
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Episode 17: The Cremaster Field (or, Chuck Dies)
Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather overthink the season finale of Gossip Girl and the Joss Whedon/Neil Patrick Harris episode of Glee.
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Overthinking Treme: Drive Away From Here
Do Simon and Overmyer even want us to watch Treme?
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Overthinking Treme: The White Asshole’s Burden
White men can save the Indians, the Arabs and the Japanese. But they can’t save New Orleans.
Overthinking The Wire (Season 1)
How can all of the characters on The Wire be “well-written” if they all seem like they were written for different shows?
Overthinking Lost: Who Spoils the Spoilers?
Spoiler alert.
Isn’t It Antitypical? Beyond Morissettian Irony
Stringer Bell on The Office, plus the past week’s less ironic events
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The TiVolution Will Not be Televised
Merlin Mann is one of my favorite bloggers. He has lots of sites. I like him because he has finely honed bullshit meter and zero tolerance for over-hyped garbage like the internet. Or “productivity.” Anyway. Merlin recently wrote an article … Continued