Supercontext: an autopsy of media

We try to unpack what little is known about this author, while providing a "succinct" description of the book. Along the... Read more

This 1979 collection of essays attempts to reveal the 1960s and California as stories without narratives. We discuss how... Read more

This 2009 psychological thriller pretends to be a found footage horror film, when it's actually a dramatic exploration o... Read more

This political comedy podcast makes over a million dollars a year from its Patreon subscribers alone. We try to unpack h... Read more

For our one-year anniversary, we look at Sir Ridley Scott's thematic threads with Alien, Prometheus and the upcoming Ali... Read more

This 1996 novel is infamous for its length and complex narrative structure, while being critically lauded for its themes... Read more

Sicario is a 2015 action/thriller about the difference between the drug war and the "War on Drugs." We look at its compl... Read more

Why do we watch trashy television? And why was FOX's The Following something we watched as much as we did even though we... Read more

David Simon and Ed Burns produced what is heralded as one of the most authentic depictions of the Iraq War, based on Eva... Read more

This movie had a tumultuous production, with constant fighting between writer Paddy Chayefsky and director Ken Russell. ... Read more

Together with guest Jack Bennett we compare and contrast all 3 versions of The Shining: Stephen King's novel, Stanley Ku... Read more

We go to the vault in this episode, pulling out our take on True Detective’s second season. Is “it all” Nic Pizzolatto? ... Read more

This 1998 horror manga depicts a Japanese town that plunges into chaos in the face of the symbolic spiral. We look at ho... Read more

Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice was embraced by some and puzzled others. But does a ... Read more

Is media better when its creators have total control? We look at the first volume of SAGA and explore issues of ownershi... Read more

Quentin Tarantino's either an idiot savant or a savvy businessman with his latest film The Hateful Eight. So we cover sc... Read more

This animated adult comedy from Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon is on a mission to violate boundaries, while indulging in ... Read more

Some call Pale Fire the best novel of the 20th century. So we interrogate what that means by diving into literary critic... Read more

This 1996 film is a purported biopic about a famous painter by another famous painter, Julian Schnabel. We ask whether t... Read more

A novel that took Stephen King 12.5 years to write is now a major franchise. But what was it like when fans (and retaile... Read more