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    Episode 081: Prozium Has to Be a Play on Prozac, Right? Equilibrium (2002)

    Join Alex as he takes a solo look at the post-war fascist future of no emotions in Equilibrium (2002), Kurt Wimmer’s 1984-esque future where a city-state has outlawed emotions. The film stars an up-and-coming Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Sean Bean (blink-and-you’ll-miss-it), with Emily Watson and Angus MacFadyen. After World War III, fascists thought war and crime were emotions’ fault, so they developed a drug that suppresses emotional extremes, and if you don’t take it everyday, read books, or participate in culture, well… Clerics come and act as judge, jury, and sometimes executioner! What do theories of emotion have to say about the portrayal of emotion in this film, and is its take accurate from psychological perspective?…

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    Episode 005: On Podcasts, We Wear Pink—Mean Girls (2004) with Olivia Aspiras

    Join Alex and Olivia Aspiras in discussion of the psychological concepts in Tina Fey’s masterpiece Mean Girls (2004), starring Lindsay Lohan, Tina Fey, Rachel McAdams (Amy Adams), and Amanda Seyfried in her first film role. The limit does not exist on the amount of social psychology we can discuss. We thank you for being so obsessed with us!

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    Episode 000: An Introduction & a Memento (2000) for the Future

    Episode Notes:

    Hi everyone!…