10: 3 Body Problem Season One
We discuss the recent NYC EARTHQUAKE and the vertiginous thrills and community-building possibilities implicit in moments of seeming crisis before diving deep into Netflix's new television program, 3 ...
9 Apr 20241h 8min
9: The Leftovers Season One
This week the pod is looking at a television program we love, the first season of Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta's The Leftovers. We get into themes of religion, madness, and bureaucracy and how the...
2 Apr 20241h 8min
8: Dune
It's Dune season and the pod is talking all things Arrakis. Covering both parts of Denis Villeneuve's epic adaptation, this episode explores various themes: resource management, intelligence agency wi...
26 Mar 20241h
7: Don't Look Up
In this episode the pod plunges into the depths of Adam McKay's 2021 satire Don't Look Up. Is it the contemporary equivalent to the keen and biting satire of Dr. Strangelove? Does its central analogy ...
19 Mar 202456min
6: Dr. Strangelove
Michael and Stu discuss Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black comedy, Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Are the concerns of this film relevant to a contemporary audience? Ha...
12 Mar 20241h 7min
5: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Michael and Stu discuss apocalyptic themes in Mary Shelley's genre-inventing science fiction classic, Frankenstein. Are we, as a society, on the verge of being overrun by monsters of our own making? C...
5 Mar 20241h 17min
4: Waterworld and The Postman
In this episode we explore Kevin Costner's two 1990's post-apocalyptic outings, WATERWORLD and THE POSTMAN. Are they any good? No. Do they have an important message? Also no. But do they reveal someth...
27 Feb 20241h 15min
3: An Inconvenient Truth
Michael and Stu dig into Davis Guggenheim's 2006 Al Gore-centric exploration of climate change, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH. Has its truth become any more convenient? And what are we to make of its mercuria...
20 Feb 20241h 18min
