Dystopedia: Stories and Society Through a Dystopian Lens

In this episode, we journey through the haunting wasteland of The Road—Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel and its stark film adaptation. We explore the bleak and brutal world McCarthy crea...

16 Heinä 20252h 3min

In this episode, we slip on the sunglasses and see the world as it really is in John Carpenter’s They Live — a cult classic that mashes up anti-capitalist dystopia with cheesy one-liners and 80s actio...

9 Heinä 20251h 52min

What happens when a nation convinces itself that the end of the world is survivable? In this episode we unpack The War Game, the BBC film banned for showing too much truth. As Britain adjusted to its ...

2 Heinä 20251h 30min

**28 YEARS LATER SPOILER ALERT TIMESTAMP 12:12-13:00** Picking up from last episode, we dive deep into the bleak and brutal world of 28 Weeks Later, exploring the dystopian themes that lie beneath the...

25 Kesä 20251h 59min

It’s not a zombie film, but it redefined the genre. With 28 Years Later on the horizon, we’re looking back at the one that started it all: 28 Days Later. Why does it still feel so hauntingly relevant?...

18 Kesä 20252h 19min

I’d buy that for a dollar! In this episode, we dive deep into the gritty, cybernetic world of RoboCop — Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 cult classic that fuses explosive action with razor-sharp social commentar...

11 Kesä 20251h 51min

Well, that took us by surprise. This week, we dive into The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster’s 1909 short story that predicted the internet, Zoom, digital burnout, remote living - and maybe even the end of...

4 Kesä 20251h 59min

This episode takes a deep dive into Battle Royale (2000), the controversial cult classic that shocked Japan and the world. We explore how the film’s dystopian violence serves as a metaphor for Japan’s...

28 Touko 20251h 29min