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Political ideas meet pop culture. Hosted by Landry Ayres and Natalie Dowzicky.

They Live

The narrative of They Live follows the social-democratic political story described by George Monbiot in his book Out of the Wreckage. This story expla...
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Idiocracy

Idiocracy centers an extremely average Army librarian who wakes up from a centuries-long cryogenic sleep to find that America has gone to seed, with a...
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Wandavision

A sitcom with two Avengers living out their best suburban lives, what could be better? But we all know by now that in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, t...
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Firefly

In the year 2157, on the outskirts of the system, far from alliance control, nine people look into the blackness of space and see nine different thing...
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Just Mercy

Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer from Harvard when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a non‐profit law firm in Alabama, dedicated to defending...
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Mad Max: Fury Road

In a post‐​apocalyptic wasteland, Furiosa rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her lost homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoner...
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The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an epic adventure based on the novels written by J.R.R. Tolkien. Set in Middle‐​earth, the story follows the young Ho...
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Wonder Woman 1984

After months of delay, Wonder Woman 1984 was finally released on HBO Max in addition to select theaters. There was plenty of anticipation for the sequ...
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The Mandalorian

Michael Cannon, Stephen Kent, Pat Eddington, and Nick Armstrong join the show to discuss how The Mandalorian focused on character development. The sho...
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M*A*S*H

There was one TV show that was able to show the horrors of war, incisively critique it, but still inspire compassion for those affected by it. M*A*S*H...
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