Manners & Madness: A Jane Austen & David Lynch Podcast

This week we are kicking off Folk Horror Summer with a silent movie from 1922, Häxan. Not only is it about the history of witches but it a piece of the history of movie making and one of, if not the first, Folk Horror Movies.

This week we have a little bit of everything, our second Inland Empire watch, Jane Austen’s, The History of England written when she was just 15, and we talk about what’s on tap for Folk Horror Summer which starts next week.

This week we have reach episode 4 and it’s our last Twin Peaks for a little while. Luckily it’s an incredibly fun episode, chalk full of jokes, physical comedy, and silly situations.

This week we are covering part 3 of Twin Peaks season 3 aka The Return. We have new ethereal spaces, doppelgängers, jackpots, and calls for help.

This week we continue on with Twin Peaks Season 3, Part 2. So many mysteries and so few answers as of yet.

This week we are very excited to finally be starting Twin Peaks season 3. So many details, old friends and new, join us for this culminating series in our David Lynch exploration.

This week we covering the 2005 movie, The Jane Austen Book Club. a good cast, and fun concept but we still must ask ourselves, would we want to be in this book club?

This week we have one more loose end to wrap up before we start Twin Peaks season 3 and we’re glad we didn’t miss it. In a show that is spoiled with great soundtracks this may be the best of the bunch.

Back during our watchalong of Hallmark’s Loveuary we missed one, this week we go back and fix that, with our commentary on Paging Mr. Darcy.

We’ve been watching, listening and reading a lot of fun things lately and so we wanted to share them on the podcast.

This week we are covering the Twin Peaks season 2 soundtrack. This soundtrack has so much to discuss, it’s ‘50s, synthy, bluesy, jazzy, symphonic, and so much more. We really enjoyed this one!

This week is the thrilling conclusion to our coverage of 2008’s Sense and Sensibility. Will anything be different in this adaptation? Whose story is more important? What are the rules of duels? These are some of the many questions we ask/answer this episode.

This week we are on to the second episode of the 2008 Sense and Sensibility miniseries, in which we observe the majority of the Marianne/Willoughby drama.

This week we are starting the 2008 BBC/Masterpiece adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. It is very atmospheric and has a great cast.

This week we finishing up our thoughts on Inland Empire, seeking wisdom from other Lynchians, and finding out what our dreams say about us.

We couldn’t stop thinking of Catherine O’Hara so we decided to watch Beetlejuice and record a commentary track while we did it.

Join us this week as we watch the 2005 Pride and Prejudice and commentate upon it.

This week we finish our recap of Inland Empire. A movie where the closer you get the further away it seems.

This week we start our final David Lynch movie and it is a doozy. In part one of out Inland Empire coverage we try to make since of some of the disparate dream like elements and wonder is it the characters or us who are having memory problems.

This week we are counting down our ten favorite couples and ranking them from least healthy to most healthy relationship.

This week we are taking a break from our regularly scheduled fun break from reality, to actually talk about reality. Sometime you just need to talk about the moment and we decided to share that with you. We hope it doesn’t feel burdensome but helps us connect as humans going through troubling times.

This week we are having some fun with a Top Ten list. We are counting down our 10 favorite locations from David Lynch and Jane Austen.

This week we are delighted to share an episode of The Blue Rose Taskforce that featured Maya hosting a panel on the topic of Magic in Twin Peaks. Thank you to John Bernardy and Mitch Proctor from Ruminations Radio network for hosting and allowing us to play the episode here. And thank you to the wonderful panelists Chelsey Weber-Smith (American Hysteria), Indigo Baloch ( Full Blossom of the Evening), Jess Purser (Jess Purser Art), and Lindsay Hallum ( Sci Frights)

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday’s to everyone! This week we are talking Scrooged, looking back on 2025, and figuring out which Christmas icon we are.

This week we follow up Home Alone with Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. We question if adults in this universe are all dumb and ask which Home Alone is best?

This week we are starting our countdown to Christmas with a classic, Home Alone. Does it still hold up? Is it secretly a horror movie? Is it the best Christmas movie? Come laugh along with us as we discuss it.

This week we are talking Turkey and holidays and what’s left on our master list. We would love to hear from you about your traditions and anything we are missing from our future plans.

This week we finish our commentary of Over the Garden Wall with episode 5 - 10. It was a delight!

This week we are doing a commentary on the exceptionally cute animated show Over the Garden Wall. We get through the first five episodes in this episode and will finish up next week with the second half. Fire up your Hulu or what have you and watch along with us!

Due to life and many technical kerfuffles, this week are re-releasing our episode on the 1940’s Pride and Prejudice.

This week we talk all things Halloween, we catch up on the things we’ve covered so far this fall, and take a fun quiz to see which creature of the night we are.

This week we are celebrating Halloween and encoring musical summer with the 1986 classic Little Shop of Horrors. Is it a perfect musical? Should we add all movies with muppets to our list? Who sang it better Audrey or Ariel? All questions we ponder as we sing our way through this week’s episode.

This week we are headed back to 1960 with a cult classic B movie, The Little Shop of Horrors. Is it silly or is it scary and how will it compare with the musical?

This week we close out the emotional mini-series Miss Austen. Rude relatives, and difficult love stories abound, just like in any Jane Austen novel.Re-uploaded due to technical difficulties.

This week we are starting the Masterpiece/BBC mini series about some of Jane Austen’s nearest and dearest. We cover the first two episodes this week.

This week we are watching The Art Life, a documentary about David Lynch, his childhood and his approach to art.

This week we are enjoying the recent film Jane Austen Wrecked My Life. It’s quiet, french, and introspective and also a bit funny.

This week we are making lists and ranking things. Who will come out on top of our list, of worst villains in Jane Austen and David Lynch?

This week we wrap-up musical summer and talk about what’s coming in the fall. We also find out which Rocky Horror Picture Show character we are.

This week we wrap musical summer with a bang as we cover Rocky Horror Picture Show. We came into the summer with Tim Curry so it’s only appropriate that we leave with him in a performance for the ages.

This week we scoured YouTube for every Jane Austen musical adaptation we could find and we found quite a few.

This week we are covering David Lynch’s musical, Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted. It was only performed once and it is as David Lynch a musical as it could possibly be. mannersandmadness.com

This week we are headed to Bollywood, via England, to watch the musical extravaganza, Bride and Prejudice. Colorful and charming this 2004 modern adaptation is a ton of fun.

We needed to take a break here at the height of summer, cool our brains with some listener feedback and a summer treat quiz.

This week we are covering two David Lynch Albums, Polish Night Music and Blue Bob. Maybe it’s the music or maybe it’s just the summer heat but it’s possible we may lose our minds while listening.

This week we are covering a filmed theatrical musical of Emma. We had a lot to say about it and were inspired to start writing our own version of an Emma musical.

This week we kick off Musical Summer with a Tim Curry classic, the 1982 movie musical, Annie. Leapin’ Lizards!

This week we finish the mysterious Mulholland Drive, and ask ourselves where do the dreams of this movie begin and end.

This is the week we finally get to Mulholland Dr., one of David Lynch’s seminal movies. We are only covering the first half this mysterious movie. Next week is part two so please remember to tune in to that episodas well.

This week we are resetting after Mansfield Park and getting in the summer spirit with the wacky 80’s movie, One Crazy Summer. With young John Cusack, Demi Moore, Bobcat Goldthwait and a plethora of other memorable characters, it is quintessentialy 80’s in a very fun way.*re-upload to fix editing glitch