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What Was That, Now?

What Was That, Now?

By: Loann West & Art Hennessey
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Loann West and Art Hennessey discuss current events and controversies in arts and culture. Art Social Sciences
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  • 027 - Has Peak TV Already Peaked?
    Jun 15 2023

    Loann and Art discuss how the landscape is changing for streaming television and they wonder if the promising period of "peak tv" may already be gone. 

    Things discussed in this episode:

    • Peak TV Is Over, Welcome to Trough TV by Sam Adams (Slate)
    • The Enshittification of TikTok by Cory Doctorow (Wired) 
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • 026 - Is Summer Movie Season Officially Back in 2023?
    May 18 2023

    Art and Loann start by talking about how moviegoing has changed since the pandemic, is it back to the way it used to be, or too many people happy with watching stuff at home? ( 01:00 )

    Then we discuss this upcoming summer movie season, including which movies we're excited to see on the big and the films we're approaching with skepticism. (35:00) 

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    2 hrs and 5 mins
  • 025 - Everything Everyverse - Is Hollywood Entering Peak Multiverse?
    Apr 26 2023

    Loann and Art discuss the success of Everything Everywhere All at Once and the recent wave of multiverse storytelling for the big and small screen. We talk a little about the history of the multiverse in fiction, how it can be used, and how to separate it from other genres and subgenres. 

    Loann's multiverse book recommendations:

    • The Peripheral by Charles Gibson
    • The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky 

    Art's multiverse movie recommendations:

    • Triangle 
    • Coherence

    Other things of interest talked about in this episode:

    Recursion by Blake Crouch 

    The Sundered World by Michael Moorecock

    The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick

     

     

     

     

     

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    1 hr and 50 mins
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