Episode 14: Scandi Noir, Reality TV, Remakes & Pandemic Brain

Or: The Long Year Reviewed

Pod Culture Oz Episode Episode 14: Scandi Noir, Reality TV, Remakes & Pandemic Brain

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In this episode, we contemplate what we are calling the ‘long year’ of the pandemic, and assess if we have reached the goals that we set way back in our first episode.

We also look at pet peeves in pop culture, literature of the pose, why lit fic and “the western cannon” suck, and what we are looking forward to discussing in future episodes. (And discover that “she has a spreadsheet!”)

You can listen to this episode on our website, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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“To lever Foucault into this episode – where there is power there is always resistance, that’s the whole schtick.”

— Nick, Co-host

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Timestamps:

• 0:00 – Introduction

• 0:50 – The Long Year in Review

• 4:18 – Best of 2021

• 25:12 – Pet peeve of pop culture in 2021

• 126:30 – What we are looking forward to in 2022

• 1:39:40 – Wrap up & Outro

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“Evil-Lyn goes full nihilist – she looks into the abyss, and the abyss looks back. And she says “There is nothing at the centre of the universe, there is just ME.””

— Philippa, Host

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Books we discuss:

• Carriger, Gail.  The Heroine’s Journey

• el-Motar, Amal and Max Gladstone. This is how you lose the time war

• Gladstone, Max. The Witch who came in from the cold

• Jordan, Robert. Wheel of Time series

• Martin, George RR – Game of thrones series

• Rocha, Kit. Mercenary Librarians series

• Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter series

• Roupenian, Kristen. Cat Person

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Movies & TV shows we discuss:

• Blown Away

• Bo Burnham’s Inside

• Brigerton

• Cowboy bebop anime

• Cowboy Bebop Netflix show

• Eva Rebuild

• Evangelion

• Friday the Thirteenth

• Glow up

• The Great British Bake Off

• The Great Pottery Throwdown

• Grave / Raw

• Halloween

• Kate

• Katla

• The Long Kiss Goodnight

• Masters of the Universe: Revelation

• The Melancholy of Haru ??

• Metalwork Masters

• Midnight Diner

• Next in Fashion

• Nightmare on Elm Street

• Police Academy

• Schitt’s Creek

• Squid Game

• Star Wars The Force Awakens

• Star Wars The Last Jedi

• Star Wars Solo

• Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back

• Sweet Magnolias

• Taskmaster

• Teenage Bounty Hunters

• Titan (movie)

• Three Colours series

• Trese

• Virgin River

• Way of the House Husband

• Wonder Woman movie

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Games we discuss:

• The Good Life

• Knights of the Old Republic

• Knights of the Old Republic 2

• Mass Effect

• Mass Effect 2

• Mass Effect 3

• Observation

• Xbox Game Pass

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Other links:

• Bloom, Harold

• Cowboy Bebop article in Polygon

• Enough with the post apocalypse, time for the pre apocalypse in Killscreen

• Guts, style and substance in This is How you lost the Time War, in Ancillary review of books.

• Western Literary Canon

• Winning the game you didn’t even want to play – Literature of the pose – in LitHub.

• Introductory Episode

• Romance Episode

• Omega Point episode

• Space Episode

• Shelter Mountain article from IASPR

• Cordery Effects

• Wicked Wallflowers – Gail Carriger Interview

• Cowboy Bebop article

• Foucult – The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, 1976.