Sunday night's Super Bowl landed a huge TV audience for its battle between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers, which the Broncos took 24-10. While a football game is a football game, the Super Bowl is also a huge pop culture event, from the halftime show to the buildup and the barrage of advertising. We sat down the Monday morning after to take apart the highs, the lows, and the Beyonce of it all.

As we talk about a little, the halftime show was partially upstaged and made irrelevant by the release of Beyonce's fascinating, gorgeous video "Formation," and there's already lots of interesting writing about it: NPR rounded some of it up here, plus there's this and this and undoubtedly more by the hour. Dig in.

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