The Heavy Pour This Time It’s Personal By Sara Clemens • November 6th, 2019 Sara got to meet Pee-wee Herman at this year’s NYCC and only freaked out a little.
What is BBC Doing Right Now to Try and Compete With Netflix? By Alan Smithee • October 24th, 2019 The BBC petitioned with Ofcom to see if they could make some major changes to their services.
Rookie of the Year Star Trek: The Sex Generation By Matt Marrone • October 8th, 2019 The ladies of the USS Enterprise want to get it on. Badly.
Carole & Tuesday & Bad Representation By Gingy Gibson • September 20th, 2019 Bad representation does not count as representation and why are we still having this conversation in 2019?
Razor Blades or Fancy Pants: The Story of The Real Peaky Blinders By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • September 10th, 2019 In this episode, Jen tells you the story of the real Peaky Blinders.
No Accounting for Tastes All Roads By Adam Boffa • September 10th, 2019 Despite being set over a century apart, Deadwood and Breaking Bad end up in surprisingly similar places.
The Heavy Pour Faking it to Make It: GLOW and the Power of Performance By Sara Clemens • September 5th, 2019 GLOW is a love letter to performance and the way it intertwines with work and life.
Episode 14: The Terror By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • August 28th, 2019 It’s back to television this week as David and Sara discuss The Terror on Unmissable!
Open Letter to Legion By Noah Springer • August 16th, 2019 My beautiful, heady, unwieldy love – what am I to do with you?
Documentary Sunday Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much By Megan Condis • August 5th, 2019 Not unlike the game show that it chronicles, watching The Perfect Bid is comforting. So long as you don’t think about it hard.
Here's the Thing Let’s Talk About Mitch Hedberg By Rob Rich • August 2nd, 2019 Rob ruminates on one of his favorite comedians and how, despite appearances, they’re still a shining example of how jokes can be hilarious without being mean.
Another Look Evangelion and Endings By Yussef Cole • August 1st, 2019 Twenty years later, what’s it like to watch the anime that made you stop watching anime?
Feature Excerpt Springfield Forever By Noah Springer • July 22nd, 2019 Some mobile games are only entertaining for a few hours. For Noah, The Simpsons Tapped Out has proven fun for nearly a decade.
Episode 11 – Stranger Things By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • July 18th, 2019 Stranger Things are afoot as Sara and David talk about the third season of Netflix’s popular 80s pastiche
The Burnt Offering Grab Bag By Stu Horvath • July 5th, 2019 Stu has a handful of thoughts on everything from The Name of the Rose to dungeon synth.
Episode 10 – Black Mirror By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • July 4th, 2019 Topher Grace’s best performance, Miley + Nine Inch Nails 5ever and, uh, would VR sex even actually work?
A Review of Pluto TV Commercials By Amanda Hudgins • June 10th, 2019 Trapped in a world of re-runs of Forensic Files and World Poker Tour, I found myself drawn to one particular thing: the commercials of Pluto TV.
DC’s TV Universe Represents Queer Heroes Like Marvel Won’t By Kenneth Shepard • June 7th, 2019 Avengers: Endgame is not the queer representation mainstream superheroes need, but DC’s TV universe is full of the heroes queer fans deserve.
Unmissable – Episode 8 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • June 5th, 2019 Game of Thrones is over, so let’s have Stu Horvath on to discuss it, even though he didn’t watch the show.
Rookie of the Year Not. Today. By Matt Marrone • May 23rd, 2019 Fact: Arya Stark is the most badass character in the history of television.
The Devil is Only Human After All By Pascal Wagner • May 20th, 2019 Depictions of Satan fluctuate depending on the media, but they all touch a part of our subconscious.
Rookie of the Year That Olivia Colman Look By Matt Marrone • May 11th, 2019 Unmissable: The Official Unwinnable Podcast forgot one important role in their chat about Olivia Colman: She’s the chick from Numberwang.
No Accounting for Tastes Which Theme Goes With Everything? By Adam Boffa • May 5th, 2019 A journey to find a specific Street Fighter II theme that matches his childhood memories leads Adam down an SFII rabbit hole.
Unmissable: Episode 5 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • April 15th, 2019 It’s part one of a Jordan Peele double header!
Consensual Violence By Amanda Hudgins • April 8th, 2019 Blood sports are an active brutality on the lives on the participants, a grotesque display of physicality and punishment that leaves them pummeled on the side of the road.
Luke Perry was Riverdale’s Best Idea By Harry Mackin • April 2nd, 2019 The story of Fred Andrews is, thanks to Riverdale’s framing, is in some small part the story of Luke Perry.
Unmissable: Episode 2 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • February 28th, 2019 Hey, it’s our second episode! Yussef Cole pulls up a chair.
Unmissable: Pilot By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • February 6th, 2019 Hey, we finally have a podcast!
Just let Reigen be sexy already By Kris Ligman • January 29th, 2019 Mob Psycho 100’s beloved con-man got a visual facelift in the anime, but what makes him a good character hasn’t changed.
What The Good Place says about game design By Kris Ligman • January 22nd, 2019 If you’ve run a game for eons and all of a sudden not a single player was making it to the end goal, is that your fault or theirs?
Best of 2018 The Best TV of 2018 By Team Unwinnable • December 27th, 2018 True to the Unwinnable brand, the shows on the Best TV of 2018 list are lovely, dark and deep.
The Weird World of Neon Genesis Evangelion Spinoffs By Malindy Hetfeld • December 17th, 2018 Neon Genesis Evangelion stands out as a series that used spinoffs to open up some more opportunities to market something, anything to fans, while potentially hurting the source material in the process.
The Radical Positivity of Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san By Kris Ligman • November 19th, 2018 I’ve been thinking a lot about radical positivity. About how, in a world full of objectively horrible things and an even greater volume of subjective nastiness, the most defiant act is to be kind.
An Ode to Kathleen Zellner By Kris Ligman • November 13th, 2018 Making a Murderer‘s Kathleen Zellner is an asshole. I adore her.
Rookie of the Year I’ve Joined the Blue Rose Task Force By Matt Marrone • November 7th, 2018 Matt Marrone has a Twin Peaks-related announcement to make.
American Vandal Season Two: The Kids Aren’t Alright By David Shimomura • November 6th, 2018 American Vandal Season Two tackles both turd and teen vulnerability.
Deep Space Nine is More Important Than Ever By P.J. Kryfko • November 2nd, 2018 Looking back on Deep Space Nine, it seems ahead of its time, but maybe we’ve just been backsliding.
Backlog Culture is Not Canon By Gavin Craig • September 12th, 2018 Star Wars is a case study in how canon can grip a culture, and what happens when fandom turns toxic.
The Heavy Pour Death Rattles By Sara Clemens • August 17th, 2018 AMC’s The Terror understands that, sometimes, the Arctic’s silence haunts most of all.
