Dorin, Jenn, and Kendyl discuss the Marvel film, Eternals (2021).
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Episode #328: Wholesome Realism
Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl discuss season 2 of The Baby-sitters Club.
Continue readingEpisode #327: Not So Spicy
Kendyl and Dorin are very excited to discuss Dune (2021) with Jenn, who hasn’t read the book, and see how it holds up.
Continue readingEpisode #326: No One Is Driving
The Adaptation team talks Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) and try to understand the choices that were made.
Continue readingEpisode #325: New, Inexperienced, Untrained, Naive
Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl talk about the film The Green Knight (2021) and various translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which it’s based on.
Continue readingEpisode #324: Spice Up Your Life!
Kendyl and Dorin discuss the novel Dune by Frank Herbert, though only one of them had a positive experience in the reading of it.
Continue readingEpisode #323: That Pantomime Energy
The Adaptation team talks Cinderella (2021), with wildly different opinions from the mainstream take on it. If you felt like the only one that liked this movie, we’re here for you.
Continue readingEpisode #322: Not Improved, But Different
Jenn and Kendyl talk He’s All That (2021) and wonder at what point we’ll be too far away from high school to be able to “get” these movies.
Continue readingEpisode #321: Jojo Said It Best
“It’s just too little, too late” for the complex Black Widow story that we really wanted, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t enjoy the 2021 film. We just wish it wasn’t the first and last time Natasha got to be our title character.
Continue readingEpisode #320: Like a Spider Waiting for the Kill
The Adaptation team talks Cruella (2021)!
Continue readingEpisode #319: But the Crows, Though
A jam-packed episode on the first season of Shadow and Bone!
Continue readingEpisode #318: Emphasis on Chaos
We thought it would never happen, but the Adaptation team is finally covering Chaos Walking (2021).
Continue readingEpisode #317: Masculine Laughter
The Adaptation team covers The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith, published in 1956, and you can tell.
Continue readingEpisode #316: Eff That Noise
Coming to you from the distant past of 2019, Dorin and Kendyl talk about The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.
Continue readingEpisode #315: Super Squirrel
Dorin and Kendyl discuss the movie Flora & Ulysses (2021) and the differences in family dynamics from the book that it’s based on.
Continue readingEpisode #314: Choosing Each Other
Jenn (completely voluntarily) joins Corey and Kendyl to talk about To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021), the finale to the movie series.
Continue readingEpisode #313: A Loop, a Whirl, a Vertical Climb
Dorin and Kendyl cover the delightful, layered middle grade book Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo.
Continue readingEpisode #312: Near and Far, Closer Together
Corey and Kendyl cover the final book in the To All the Boys trilogy, Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han.
Continue readingEpisode #311: Where Is the Power?
The Adaptation team finally dive into the Grishaverse with Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. Any count on how many times we’ve raved about it on the podcast before this point?
Continue readingEpisode #310: Indistinguishable from Magic
In discussing series 2 of His Dark Materials, Kendyl, Jess, and Dorin talk about how The Subtle Knife was adapted, the opposite natures of Mary Malone and Mrs. Coulter, and changes in the ending.
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