Episode #151: A Flirty Pissing Contest and Zombies

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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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Vlog: Five Memorable Quotes You Wish You Could Forget

Jenn lists off the top five quotes that we would love to scrub from our brains.

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Author Spotlight Vlog: Jane Austen

In which Jenn turns our author spotlight onto the unparalleled Jane Austen.

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Vlog: Top Five Character Blunders

In which Jess tells you our picks for the most atrocious character defining mistakes.

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Vlog: Six Plot Changes That Worked

In which we list plot changes in film adaptations that actually worked with the story.

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Vlog: Six Best Adaptations of All Time

In which our Adaptation hosts compile our (first) list of the best adapted films/shows of all time.

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Vlog: Favorite Adaptations of 2013

Where we list off our favorite adaptations of the year, from film to television to YouTube.

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Vlog: What Are We Reading? (December 2013)

In which our Adaptation host Jessica nearly has a breakdown over one of John Green’s tearjerkers, and the other hosts read a smorgasbord of genres, from dystopias to magical realism to classic lit.

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Vlog: Seven Most Epic Book to Movie Moments

In which we give you the scenes that were epically accurate in translation to the screen.

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#29: Toners for Dwarves (on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey film)

Vlog: Five Best Character Adaptations

In which our hosts list character adaptations that we thought were the “whole package” on screen. In fact, we’re convinced that these aren’t actors–they ARE the characters straight from the page! After all, you’ve heard of Inkheart, right? It could happen!

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Adaptation #42: All About the EL-BEE-DEE!

header042What?! After a year of Mondays and Thursdays spent in anticipation of a new episode, our Austen-inclined hosts discuss Hank Green and Bernie Su’s The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and its whole new level of audience immersion. We gush over our love for most of the characters, seethe over our hatred for others and sit in awe of the realization that they all had depth that we weren’t initially expecting from this Pride and Prejudice adaptation.

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