“I’d love to stop watching TV, but you cancelled school!”
aka, YouTube series to binge when you’re stuck indoors and you’d like to learn a little something.
ART!
- Lindsay Ellis’ entire YouTube channel. It’s like film school for people who can’t afford film school.
- Here she is teaching you about film theory… via the Transformers movies.
- Here she is talking about the ways the potrayals of various characters have changed and developed over the years.
- It’s Lit! A series hosted by Lindsay Ellis in collaboration with PBS, about reading, writing, and the publishing industry.
- Brows Held High. Half comedy reviews, half artistic and political analysis of “highbrow” films – often both at once.
- ThugNotes. Advertised as “classic literature, original gangster.” Sparky Sweets, PhD, summarizes and analyzes some books you may have heard of.
- Terrible Writing Advice. Teaching you how to write by telling you how not to write.
- Maven of the Eventide. A very nerdy goth lady reviews vampire-focused content, and has thus talked quite a lot about the history of the vampire genre and how it’s developed over the centuries. It’s so awesome. She also has really cute kids who show up sometimes!
SCIENCE!
- Sexplanations. One very smart lady answers all your sex ed questions. Yes, even that one.
- Tibees. A PhD student explains physics and math… in the style of Bob Ross, baking videos, and shitposts.
- Cool Worlds. Videos about astronomy and space and other planets, for when you want to think about how small you are.
- Minute Physics. Complicated scientific ideas, in short, easy to digest videos.
- SciShow: Hank Green and friends tackle serious scientific queries, like, “Why don’t we just throw trash into volcanoes?”
HISTORY!
- Ruining History. Shane Madej infodumps about salacious periods in history that were left out of the books. People have always been weird, y’all.
- On that note: Puppet History! It’s a new one, but it’s a lot like Ruining History, but with puppets and songs, too.
- BuzzFeed Unsolved: True Crime. If I get mysteriously murdered with no leads, Ryan and Shane are the only people allowed to talk about it.
- Also Supernatural often has some interesting historical tidbits.
MISCELLANEOUS CRAP!
- Adam Ruins Everything. One very earnest, very nerdy man annoys his friends and family by debunking common misconceptions about everything from chemistry to the TSA to the funeral industry.
- Last Week Tonight. Comedy news program hosted by a sad British man in America. Depending on the episode, you might see him get in a jockstrap-related feud with Russel Crowe, troll the FCC with robocalls, or interview Edward Snowden. Constantly wastes HBO’s money on stupid shit. Always funny, always informative, and he hates Trump SO. GODDAMN. MUCH.
- Defunctland. Our host Kevin gives us the rundown on theme park attractions, and sometimes whole parks, that don’t exist anymore – how they were developed, and why they ultimately shut down.
- He also has a side-series about kids’ TV shows that don’t exist anymore.
- And a miniseries about the works of Jim Henson.
- Daily Moth. American news given in ASL, with full English transcripts.
- Ali Abdaal. A Cambridge grad talks about life has a junior doctor, and how to study and work more effectively.
Feel free to add!
(via feltelures)
