The team talks Persuasion (2022) and finds that they didn’t all have negative reactions.
Continue readingEpisode #347: An Artificial, Assenting Smile
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Episode #345: Tempers to Manage
The team talks about Jane Austen’s Persuasion.
Continue readingEpisode #334: Let Poirot Love His Moustache
Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl finally cover Death on the Nile (2022)!
Continue readingEpisode #306: Rebecca of Manderley Estate
Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl discuss the choices made in Rebecca (2020) compared to the book by Daphne du Maurier, which they agreed with and which they could have done without.
Continue readingEpisode #305: Our Mrs. de Winter
In their discussion of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, the hosts talk about the unintentional unreliability of the narrator, despair over why our romantic leads can’t just talk to each other, and break down the problems with fully vilifying Rebecca.
Episode #304: The Turn of Certain Old Corners
With so many story lines in The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), the hosts struggle to touch on everything they loved in the series. Not that they are without complaint, but this follow up to The Haunting of Hill House (2018) definitely hit the mark on everyone’s feels.
Episode #300: Being Human on a Boat
Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl discuss clearing away preconceived notions, the division of labor when doing crime, and the intensity of love in the context of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile.
Episode #290: That Which We Call a Daisy
Dorin and Kendyl tackle David Copperfield by Charles Dickens—a marathon novel with a large cast of outlandish characters—with a focus on identity, David’s surprising faith in people, and an even more unexpected defense of Dora.
Episode #289: The Magic That Connects Us
Is The Secret Garden the perfect book for quarantine? Dorin and Kendyl think it just might be, with it’s fresh-baked-bread-wholesomeness, themes of how nature connects us all, and early meditations on mental health.
REWIND #62: Engagingly Clueless Emma
Relisten to this 2013 episode where Jess and Kendyl cover Emma by Jane Austen and what it means to like and root for a main character.
REWIND #113: Little Women by Lousia May Alcott
Relisten to the 2015 episode in which Jess and Kendyl discuss Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, remembering how they felt reading it in younger years and how their opinions have changed.
Episode #254: This Hill House Is Haunted
Jenn and Kendyl are joined by a special guest from This Podcast Is Haunted to discuss Shirley Jackson’s small but mighty novel, The Haunting of Hill House.
Episode #210: Murder on the Justice Express
Adaptation covers their second novel by the Queen of Mystery herself, Agatha Christie. Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl discuss Murder on the Orient Express, the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot, and the twelve person jury that makes up the cast.
Vlog: Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party Spotlight
Vlog: Notable Performances in Adaptations from Actors Under 18
Vlog: Recommended Reading for a Harry Potter Fan
Episode #162: Alice Through the Ocean of Time
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) turns the hosts to discussions of time travel, colorful characters, and what exactly qualifies as an adaptation.
Question of the Week: Does this film qualify as an adaptation? Did we really need this movie to be made? How frustrated are you with the time travel?
Don’t forget to watch Alice in Wonderland (2010) with us in our commentary!
Vlog: Looking Glass Wars Dream Cast
Episode #151: A Flirty Pissing Contest and Zombies
Jenn, Sarah, and Kendyl discuss Pride and Prejudice and Zombies the film, the movie and the original Jane Austen novel they are descended from in this entertaining episode. They could have done without the B plot the film added, but Darcy’s leather coat, Bingley being useless, and the badass Bennet quintet more than make up for it.
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