We return to Season 1 of our podcast to discuss <em>The Fast Saga</em> (AKA F9), which features the return of director Justin Lin along with Han and other characters from films past including Sean Boswell and Twinkie (F3), Stasiak (F4, F6), Queenie and Owen Shaw (F7, F8), and Cypher (F8) as well as John Cena as Dom’s brother Jacob. We talk about the flashbacks that summarize 30 years of the Toretto family legacy, the self-referential awareness that Lin brings back to the family and the franchise, and the embrace of Roadrunner cartoon aesthetics. And magnets, we also talk about magnets.

Exploring pop “trash” through the lens of media history and theory, as well as representations of race, class, and gender with the Ambassador of Pop Culture, Bob Thompson, and  Charisse L'Pree, professors at  the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.