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This One Goes To... Pretty Okay
This week, we wandered through a grab-bag of games, music, and reading before settling into a long-overdue cultural reckoning with This Is Spinal Tap. We talked Sonic ...
Cleaning up the Past in Ambrosia Sky
This week, we kick off 2026 by talking about Ambrosia Sky, a short, atmospheric sci-fi game that quietly wrecked us more than we expected. What starts as a PowerWash-a...
When Doves Cry, We Draft
This week we keep things intentionally low-effort and high-chaos by drafting the Billboard year-end #1 songs from 1980 through 1999. We each build a ten-song playlist ...
We Have Opinions: The Fast-Food Tier List Nobody Asked For
This week, we come in hot — starting with wuxia vibes, holiday chaos, and cursed Christmas remixes of “September” — before diving into music stats, Taskmaster binges, ...
K-Pop Demon Hunters: The Cultural Mystery Tour
This week, we finally dive into the cultural behemoth that is K-Pop Demon Hunters—six months late and fully confused. We talk through how this extremely catchy, hyper-...
You Got the Touch: The Transformers One Redemption Arc
This week on The Middle of Culture, we close out our dive into Transformers with Transformers One, last year’s animated prequel that tells the origin story of Optimus ...
Optimus Prime is a dick!
In this week’s Middle of Culture, we dive deep into our usual blend of media obsession and existential humor — from the strange delights of villainess light novels and...
Look Back: Emotional Devastation in 58 Minutes
This week, we dive headfirst into emotional ruin — courtesy of Look Back, the devastatingly beautiful anime film by Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto. Before we ge...
Would You Rather? The Cursed Edition
Peter and Eden cover a whirlwind couple of weeks—family milestones, stressful schedules, and the search for meaning outside of work—before diving into media updates li...
Heavy Trucks, Heavier Nihilism: Sorcerer (1977)
This week Eden and Peter dive into William Friedkin’s gritty 1977 thriller Sorcerer, a tense and sweat-soaked remake of The Wages of Fear. They talk through the film’s...
The Juice ain't Worth the Squeeze—Media Tracking
What starts as a simple dive into media tracking apps quickly spirals into tangents about puzzles from hell, glamping with bison and mustangs, fistfights with Satan in...
Science and Heart beats Capes and Punching
In this episode, Eden and Peter dive into Fantastic Four: First Steps, a surprisingly hopeful and aesthetically stunning addition to the MCU. They unpack the film’s ut...
They Finally Get Superman
Episode SummaryThis week on The Middle of Culture, Peter and Eden dive into Superman 2025—a movie they both expected to disappoint, but ultimately left them grinning. ...
Suplexing Starscream—Transformers Vol 1: Robots in Disguise
Episode Summary:This week, Peter and Eden dive headfirst into the high-octane world of Daniel Warren Johnson’s Transformers comic run, exploring its explosive art, emo...
DC in Tiers: From Superman to F*** You Forever
In this lively and irreverent episode of The Middle of Culture, Peter and Eden build a tier list ranking 29 DC movies, from the highs of Christopher Reeve's iconic Sup...
From Dollhouses to Deathrails: The Taking of Pelham ONe Two Three (1974)
Eden and Peter dive into a delightfully eclectic mix of recent pop culture experiences--from fake pencil sharpenings and dollhouse Gundams to metal album releases and ...
Oops, All Bummers: Edith Finch
In this reflective and wide-ranging episode, Peter and Eden dive into the existential fatigue of modern life, cozy rituals like gong fu tea, and the struggle to find j...
Hulk Smashes, Spiritbox Rocks, Nikki Implodes
In this lively and wide-ranging episode of The Middle of Culture, Eden and Peter dive into everything from the metalcore chaos of Spiritbox's live show to the surprisi...