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
17. Adaptation
16. Autumn/Winter 2012
15. Directors
14. Breaking Bad - Season 5
13. Critics
12. The Twiathlon
11. The Olympics
10. The Dark Knight Rises
9. Blockbusters
8. Sheffield DocFest 2012 Report
7. Truth
6. Education
5. Returns
4. Television
3. Britain
2. The Future
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1a. 2011 - Pt 1
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