When it was published in 2011, Ernest Cline's Ready Player One got a fairly warm reception as a diverting mashup of pop culture, gaming, and accessible quest narrative, wrapped up in a warm, comforting blanket of nostalgia for the ephemera of the 1970s and 80s. Over the past seven years, its reputation has proven much more divisive, in part because of Cline's subsequent work, but mostly because the kind of geek culture he celebrated has become much darker and more complicated. Matt and Ed talk about all that in regards to the film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, as well as Amazon's big-budget TV gambles and the dystopian potential of Birmingham.
00:00:00 - 00:25:48 - Intro & News
00:25:49 - 01:09:15 - Matt & Ed discuss Ready Player One
01:09:16 - 01:17:06 - SRS Recommends & Outro
75. The Alternate 100: Part 9
74. Interstellar
73. Days of Fear and Wonder
72. The Alternate 100: Part 8
71. High School
70. 2014 Halloween Special
69. Comebacks
68. Prequels
67. The Alternate 100: Part 7
66. The Alternate 100: Part 6
65. The Alternate 100: Part 5
64. The Alternate 100: Part 4
63. Autumn/Winter 2014 Preview
62. Online Criticism
61. Robin Williams
60. Knowing Too Much
59. Marvel
58. The Alternate 100: Part 3
57. The Alternate 100: Part 2
56. Separating Art from the Artist
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