Welcome to Analysis Roulette, the podcast taking a hatchet to the idea of media criticism.

This is our very basic website, where you can find transcripts and links to our episodes. Your hosts are Dia (they/them) and Duck (he/they). Neither of us are coders and we have no money. Please adjust your expectations accordingly.

You can contact us via analysisroulette@gmail.com. That's not a link because we don't want to be spammed by robots, but you can copy and paste into the email program of your choice.

EPISODES

The First Rolls

Introducing ourselves and the very serious and academic project we're engaged in.

Transcipt, Video (Youtube), Audio (Spotify)

Howl's Moving Castle: Dream Logic

A post-structural analysis of the Studio Ghibli film.

Transcipt, Video (Youtube), Audio (Spotify)

Shazam: Evil Is An Option

An abuser/innocent (we made that up, but we explain ourselves) analysis of the DCEU film.

Transcipt, Video (Youtube), Audio (Spotify)

Flat Earth: A Field of Human Endeavour

An ideological reading of the entire body of work of the Flat Earth believers.

Transcipt, Video (Youtube), Audio (Spotify)

Dragonriders of Pern: Society by Design

A Marxist analysis of Anne McCaffrey's series of novels.

Transcipt, Video (Youtube), Audio (Spotify)

Hamlet: The Possibility of Gay Stuff

A queer reading of the Shakespeare play. This was based on the text, not any particular performance.

Transcipt, Video (Youtube), Audio (Spotify)

Elder Scrolls: The Gospel According to Uriel Septim

A religious allegorical interpretation of the Elder Scrolls series of video games, produced by Bethesda.

Transcipt, Video (Youtube), Audio (Spotify)

Yu-Gi-Oh: Self-Actualisation through the Other

A Jungian analysis of the anime Yu-Gi-Oh, in the incarnation generally known as Season Zero.

Transcipt, Video (Youtube), Audio (Spotify)

My Hero Academia: The Spiderman Revolution

A post-modern analysis of the anime My Hero Academia / Boku no Hero Academia.

Transcipt, Video (Youtube), Audio (Spotify)

Lightlark: These Old Men Need Therapy

A psychoanalytic reading of the novel Lightlark, by Alex Aster.

Transcipt, Video (Youtube), Audio (Spotify)

Lightlark: Bonus

Our thoughts about Lightlark, which could not be contained to a single analysis.

Transcipt (we know about the dialogue tags, we're fixing it), Video (Youtube), Audio (Spotify)

Food Wars: The Only Surviving Evidence of Japan

An "archaeological" reading of the anime Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma. Duck did not understand what an archaelogical reading was, and we ran with the misunderstanding. This is an attempt to reconstruct the culture that produced the work, based only on the work itself.

Transcipt, Video (Youtube), Audio (Spotify)