The Matrix Regurgitated — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #113

In light of the release of The Matrix Res­ur­rec­tions, we talk through the fran­chise as a whole. What made the first one remark­able, and does that a bar that any sequel can reach? We talk through the choic­es that fed into the new film, why peo­ple don’t seem to care about their matrix fam­i­lies, the end­less fight scenes, and more. Who will choose the blue pill?

This very spe­cial hol­i­day episode of Pret­ty Much Pop reunites the full sea­son one pan­el: Mark Lin­sen­may­er, Bri­an Hirt and Eri­ca Spyres, and fea­tures the pod­cast­ing debut of Mark’s son Abe Lin­sen­may­er.

Some arti­cles we con­sid­ered includ­ed:

• “ ‘The Matrix Res­ur­rec­tions’ Is a Cru­cial Keanu Reeves Movie” by Alex Pap­pade­mas
• “The Sub­ver­sive Play­ful­ness of the ‘The Matrix’” by Bri­an Phillips
• “Zion Is Inside The Matrix: How Res­ur­rec­tions Hon­ors Warped Fan The­o­ry” by Craig Elvy
• “The Matrix And Gen­der Iden­ti­ty: The Trans Nar­ra­tive Behind The Wachowskis’ Sci-Fi Clas­sic” by Sarah El-Mah­moud
• “The Matrix 4’s Video Game Reboot Scene Reveals the Orig­i­nal Films’ True Mean­ing” by Theo Kogod
• “Why The Matrix Nev­er Stopped Being Rel­e­vant” by Emi­ly Van­Der­W­erff

This episode includes bonus dis­cus­sion you can access by sup­port­ing the pod­cast at patreon.com/prettymuchpop or by choos­ing a paid sub­scrip­tion through Apple Pod­casts. This pod­cast is part of the Par­tial­ly Exam­ined Life pod­cast net­work.

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