Episodes
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Episode #348: God’s Thumbs!
Jess, Jenn, and Kedyl discuss the middle grade novel Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman. Continue reading →
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Episode #347: An Artificial, Assenting Smile
The team talks Persuasion (2022) and finds that they didn't all have negative reactions. Continue reading →
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Episode #346: The Jealous Ex
The Adaptation team discusses Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). Continue reading →
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Episode #345: Tempers to Manage
The team talks about Jane Austen's Persuasion. Continue reading →
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Episode #344: Beyond Infinity
Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl discuss Lightyear (2022). Continue reading →
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Episode #343: Supreme Authority
Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl talk Jurassic World Dominion (2022). Continue reading →
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Episode #342: More Like Cringerella
Adaptation talks Sneakerella (2022). Continue reading →
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Episode #341: Our Goddess Wanda
Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl talk Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). Continue reading →
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Episode #340: Why So Petty?
Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl talk about Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo and complain about Mal. Continue reading →
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Episode #339: Simon Says
Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl talk about season one of One of Us Is Lying (2021-2022). Continue reading →
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Episode #338: A Three-Hour Tour
Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl discuss The Batman (2022), take two! Continue reading →
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Episode #337: One of Us Had to Go
Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl discuss One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus. Continue reading →
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Episode #336: Have You Ever Loved Someone Madly?
Adaptation discusses Cyrano (2021) and the play it's based on. Continue reading →
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Episode #335: The Legacy Is You
Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl discuss legacies once again with the film Rumble (2021). Continue reading →
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Episode #334: Let Poirot Love His Moustache
Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl finally cover Death on the Nile (2022)! Continue reading →
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Episode #333: Spectacular Tentacular
Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl talk about the graphic novel Monster on the Hill by Rob Harrell. Continue reading →
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Episode #332: A Garden You Never Get to See
The Adaptation team talks about The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021), how some choices change and enhance the material, and what does (and does not) make a sympathetic antihero. Continue reading →
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Episode #331: Peter on Peter on Peter
Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl discuss Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), fall back in love with all the Peters, and outline some AU fanfiction. Continue reading →
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Episode #330: Ambition Is His Folly
Dorin, Jenn, and Kendyl discuss the Marvel film, Eternals (2021). Continue reading →
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Episode #329: The Eternal Gray Area
Dorin, Jenn, and Kendyl discuss the Marvel film, Eternals (2021). Continue reading →
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Episode #328: Wholesome Realism
Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl discuss season 2 of The Baby-sitter's Club. Continue reading →
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Episode #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 reading →
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Episode #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 reading →
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Episode #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 reading →
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Episode #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 reading →
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Episode #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 reading →
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Episode #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 reading →
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Episode #321: Jojo Said It Best
"It's just too little, too late" for the complex Black Widow story that we really wanted. Continue reading →
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Episode #320: Like a Spider Waiting for the Kill
The Adaptation team talks Cruella (2021)! Continue reading →
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Episode #319: But the Crows, Though
A jam-packed episode on the first season of Shadow and Bone! Continue reading →
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Episode #318: Emphasis on Chaos
We thought it would never happen, but the Adaptation team is finally covering Chaos Walking (2021). Continue reading →
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Episode #317: Masculine Laughter
The Adaptation Team covers The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith, published in 1956, and you can tell. Continue reading →
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Episode #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 reading →
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Episode #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 reading →
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Episode #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 reading →
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Episode #313: A Loop, a Whirl, a Vertical Climb
Dorin and Kendyl cover the delightful, layered middle grade book Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo. Continue reading →
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Episode #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 reading →
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Episode #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 reading →
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Episode #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. His Dark Materials – Series 2 … Continue reading →
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Episode #309: Wait… What?
Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl talk about Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), try to work out the rules of the stone, and what moral compass this movie was using. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) Written by Patty Jenkins, Geoff Johns, and Dave Callaham … Continue reading →
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Episode #308: You Must Be True to Your Heart
The Adaptation hosts discuss Mulan (2020), their criteria for liking these Disney live-action remakes, and what exactly makes stories like Mulan empowering Mulan (2020) Written by Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Elizabeth Martin, and Lauren Hynek Directed by Niki Caro Starring … Continue reading →
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Episode #307: The Subtle Art of Traveling Between Worlds
Jess and Kendyl discuss The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman, the introduction of other words and characters, and the religious symbolism. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman Written by Philip Pullman Published in 1997 Book 2 in the His Dark … Continue reading →
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Episode #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. Rebecca (2020) Written by Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel, and Anna … Continue reading →
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Episode #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. Rebecca … Continue reading →
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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 … Continue reading →
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Episode #303: The Witches Who Lunch
The Adaptation hosts watched The Witches (2020) and could truly go on-and-on about all the visual elements, from the updated way the witches look to every piece of clothing. But there’s more to talk about with our hero, the grandmother, … Continue reading →
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Episode #302: The Ghosts of the Mind
Dorin, Jenn, and Kendyl have a lot of theories as to what the heck happened in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Basically, everyone is sus, children are terrifying, and always pay attention to what’s in the corner … Continue reading →
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Episode #301: The Case of the Missing Cleverness
With some hosts that have read the book by Nancy Springer and some that have not, Adaptation covers the film adaptation Enola Holmes (2020), complete with a rant about corsetry and concerns about the tone of Holmesian mysteries. Enola Holmes … Continue reading →
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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. Death on the Nile Written by Agatha Christie Published … Continue reading →
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Episode #299: Colin Firth in Every Role
Dorin and Kendyl talk the magic of The Secret Garden (2020), the themes it pulls from the source material, and the changes made. The Secret Garden (2020) Written by Jack Thorne Directed by Marc Munden Starring Dixie Egerickx, Amir Wilson, … Continue reading →
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