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
204. Avengers: Infinity War
203. Jurassic Park at 25
201. Movie Stars
200. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (with Emily Benita)
199. Best Best Directors
198. Watching Old Shows in the Age of Peak TV
Star Trek Discovery Redux
197. Black Panther
196. The Netflix Paradox
195. The Good Place
194. Oscar Nominations 2018
193. The Best Actors Working Today
192. 2018 Preview
191. 2017 Wrap-Up
190. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
189. The Disaster Artist (with Louise Le Cornu)
188. Justice League
187. Matt's Birthday 2017
186. Dirty Dancing at 30 (with Michaela Livingstone-Banks)
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