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.
Documentary Sunday Shirkers By Megan Condis • July 8th, 2019 The story behind Shirkers is one of a doomed project and a bizarre cruelty.
Documentary Sunday Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I and Faces Places By Megan Condis • May 21st, 2019 The late French New Wave director’s documentary is a lot like the misshapen spuds it chronicles.
Documentary Sunday The Cleaners By Megan Condis • May 13th, 2019 A new kind of custodial labor is working to keep your social media feeds free from trolls, hate groups and terrorist organizations.
Documentary Sunday Abducted in Plain Sight By Megan Condis • April 9th, 2019 The internet’s quickness to make memes about Jan Broberg’s famous abductions (yes plural) reveals a lot about audiences’ own insecurities.
Documentary Sunday I Survived ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’ By Megan Condis • March 7th, 2019 Christian author Joshua Harris’ supposed apologetic reflection on the lives his book damaged turns into one big PR stunt.
Documentary Sunday Welcome to Marwen By Megan Condis • February 8th, 2019 Mark Hogancamp’s biopic has plenty of Hollywood movie magic, but not enough to distract from the omissions that undermine its moral.
Documentary Sunday The Power of Glove By Megan Condis • January 10th, 2019 With videogame culture obsessed with retrofuturiusm, it’s only a matter of time before the ultimate nostalgic artifact makes a comeback: the Nintendo Power Glove.
Documentary Sunday Terrace House By Megan Condis • November 28th, 2018 Unlike on American reality television, at no point do any of the residents of Terrace House seem interested in ceasing to be polite and starting to get “real.”
Documentary Sunday The Bleeding Edge By Megan Condis • November 6th, 2018 The FDA has failed for decades in its duty to oversee medical technologies, with women disproportionately falling victim.
Documentary Sunday Atari: Game Over Featuring an Interview with Andrew Reinhard By Megan Condis • October 13th, 2018 Andrew Reinhard, author of Archaeogaming: An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games, explains why its important for archaeologists to study games.
Documentary Sunday The Rachel Divide By Megan Condis • August 31st, 2018 In the wake of current events, we might ask why Netflix thought that pulling Rachel Dolezal back into the spotlight was a good idea at all.
Documentary Sunday Won’t You Be My Neighbor? By Megan Condis • August 24th, 2018 How do we teach kids about the complicated modern topics that throw even grown-ups for a loop? This looks like a job for Mr. Rogers.
Documentary Sunday Instrumental Intimacies: An Interview with Dr. Melissa Littlefield By Megan Condis • July 3rd, 2018 Melissa Littlefield, the author of Instrumental Intimacies: EEG Wearables and Neuroscientific Control, talks with Megan Condis about fashion technologies that can read our minds.
Documentary Sunday The Problem With Apu By Megan Condis • June 12th, 2018 Megan Condis digs into the problem with The Simpsons’ reaction to The Problem With Apu.
Documentary Sunday Ugly Delicious By Megan Condis • May 15th, 2018 What makes pizza authentic? The documentary series Ugly Delicious wades into a long time rivalry between New York City and Naples.
Documentary Sunday AlphaGo By Megan Condis • April 10th, 2018 What if artificial intelligence reveals a different way for us to be human?
Documentary Sunday That Sugar Film By Megan Condis • February 14th, 2018 Can a documentary be considered brain food?
Documentary Sunday Living Dolls By Megan Condis • January 15th, 2018 Despite their creepiness, Meg Condis discovers that dolls hold an incredible sway over some collectors.
Documentary Sunday The Real World Series By Megan Condis • November 21st, 2017 Esports are on the rise, but we still need to figure out how to talk about them.
Documentary Sunday The Confession Tapes By Megan Condis • November 6th, 2017 Why would you confess to a crime you didn’t commit? Megan Condis watches The Confession Tapes to find out.
Documentary Sunday Beware the Slenderman By Megan Condis • October 10th, 2017 Megan Condis explores the chilling world of memes and Beware the Slenderman.
Documentary Sunday Nobody Speak By Megan Condis • August 31st, 2017 What ya gonna do when the forces aligned against the freedom of the press run wild on you? Let’s hope we don’t have to find out.
Documentary Sunday Weiner By Megan Condis • August 2nd, 2017 “Like Huma, the film encourages us to step back and look at politicians like these with ‘a mixture of contempt and sadness.'”
Documentary Sunday The Keepers By Megan Condis • July 10th, 2017 The Keepers is about holding on to hope in the face of horror.
Documentary Sunday At All Costs By Megan Condis • May 26th, 2017 In amateur youth sports, there’s more at stake than how you play the game.
Documentary Sunday Tickled By Megan Condis • May 3rd, 2017 Competitive Endurance Tickling is a thing, just not the thing you think it is.
Documentary Sunday Chicken People By Megan Condis • April 6th, 2017 Some people really love their chickens.
Documentary Sunday Welcome to Leith By Megan Condis • February 22nd, 2017 What do you do when Nazis come to take over your town?
Documentary Sunday Sour Grapes By Megan Condis • February 4th, 2017 A delicate bouquet of the perils of materialism, with subtle notes of bullshit.
Hate the Game By Megan Condis • November 7th, 2016 The process of falling in love is not exactly portrayed with finesse by very many videogames…
HBO’s Westworld Might Go Where The Matrix Didn’t Dare By Megan Condis • November 2nd, 2016 If Westworld is a rabbit hole, how deep does it go?
Beholder: The Apartment Management Sim for the Paranoid Conspiracy Theorist By Megan Condis • September 26th, 2016 “I didn’t want to do them harm, but I also didn’t mind invading their privacy, especially when I could convince myself that it was for their own good.”
I Love the 80s: An Interview with Kreg Mosier By Megan Condis • September 12th, 2016 Meg got to sit down with a lover of the 1980’s and maker of tabletop games, Kreg Mosier.
You Are What You Hate By Megan Condis • August 31st, 2016 “Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. … It’s basically a license to proudly emote.”
Who is Eleven’s Papa? A Stranger Things Theory By Megan Condis • August 29th, 2016 There are a lot of questions to be answered in the wake of Season 1. Who is Eleven’s papa? Can Steve’s hair get any taller?
Playing With Our Emotions: An Interview with Yvvy By Megan Condis • August 15th, 2016 Empathy games aren’t going anywhere, and now they’ve made it into the classroom.
Composition Games: An Interview with Dr. Alexis Lothian By Megan Condis • August 8th, 2016 In a course on Gender, Race, and Digital Media, Dr. Alexis Lothian’s students express themselves by making games.
If You Build It They Will Come: Mark Oshiro on Trolls, Fandom, and Community Management By Megan Condis • July 18th, 2016 Megan Condis got to chat with the titular Mark of Mark Does Stuff on how to avoid fandoms becoming cesspools of trolls and bigotry.
