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The Pop Culture Professors — 54 episodes

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1

For All Mankind’s Story of Martian Revolution

2

Is "For All Mankind" the Most Ambitious Show on Television?

3

Michael Mann Reconsidered: Heat and Collateral

4

Michael Mann Reconsidered: Ali and The Last of the Mohicans

5

Michael Mann Reconsidered: Ferrari and Manhunter

6

Michael Mann Reconsidered: Thief and The Insider

7

What Went Wrong with The Night Manager?

8

Is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple the Most Important Movie of the Year?

9

The Night Manager Episodes 1—3 Analysis: It Never Ends!

10

Pluribus Episodes 8 & 9 Analysis: It’s Over!

11

Pluribus Episodes 6 & 7 Analysis: I Feel Fine!

12

Pluribus Episodes 4&5 Analysis: We Need a Little Space

13

Pluribus Episode 3 Analysis: The Amazonification of Everything

14

In “Pluribus” An America Without Division, But At What Price?

15

Springsteen’s "Nebraska" as a Political, Sonic, and Personal Document

16

In The Life of a Showgirl, Taylor Swift Addresses Love, Glamour, and Grit

17

Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: Emergence and The Real Monsters

18

Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: In Space, No One… and The Fly

19

Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: Metamorphosis and Observation

20

Transhuman Horror in Alien: Earth

21

Horror and Humanism in "28 Years Later"

22

Is Sinners a New Classic of Political Utopianism?

23

The Politics of Andor (Season 2, Episodes 10-12): Freedom and Order

24

The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 7-9): Truth and Discipline

25

The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 4-6): Too Much Information

26

The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 1-3): The Personal is Political

27

Will AI Transform What it Means to be Human in the Next Ten Years?

28

The Great Gatsby is an American Dystopia

29

James Boyle Draws the Line Between Humans and AI

30

Sex and Love with Robots and Chatbots

31

Lessons on Living with AI from the Home Computer Revolution: Revisiting Sherry Turkle’s “The Second Self”

32

In “The Beast,” AI Puts Limits on Human Emotion

33

Our History with AI is (much) Longer than You Think (with Kevin LaGrandeur)

34

A.I. is Spielberg & Kubrick’s Dark Twisted Fantasy

35

What Ex Machina Tell Us About Human-AI Psychology

36

AI: How We Got Here in Three Powerful Tales

37

Thinking Machines: Will Robots Have Rights?

38

Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story

39

Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75

40

P. Djèlí Clark on Why He Writes

41

Slavery and Film, Creativity and Academia, and Is Slavery a Good Metaphor for AI?

42

The Political Evolution of Taylor Swift

43

Can "Alien: Romulus" Revive the Alien Franchise?

44

40 Years of Purple Rain: What to Make of the Movie/Album in 2024

45

AI and Music: The Future is Here (featuring "There I Ruined It")

46

On Richard Linklater and “Hit Man”

47

Robert Farley on how "Andor" recreates "The Battle of Algiers" (and it works)

48

Adapting Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body Problem" for Television

49

Reading Taylor Swift as a Cultural and Political Text

50

Prophet Song: A Novel about a Totalitarian Takeover in Ireland

51

This is the Best Statement of the Simulation Hypothesis We've Seen

52

'For All Mankind,’ An Alternate History About the Possibility of Utopia

53

Can You Fall in Love with ChatGPT?

54

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