In Each Retelling

Send us Fan Mail In our very first IOR in over a year, we continue Sea of Monsters Month, but we're giving our teenage demigods a break from all the drama! Instead, for a belated Valentine's Day treat, we are pitching romantic comedies involving characters from  The Odyssey ! Grab some popcorn and leftover chocolate, and turn on the movie theatre in your brain for reality dating shows ho...

Send us Fan Mail Our journey through Sea of Monsters Month continues with arguably our most perilous challenge, the film adaptation that was a sequel that no one, not even those who liked the first movie, ever really asked for. Join Jas in her lukewarm defenses, River in their desperate attempts to be polite, Nick in their desperate attempts to laugh off the whole boring ordeal, and DGil in escapi...

Send us Fan Mail It's time to set sail for Sea of Monsters Month! Join Captain Jasmine and her first mate River as we begin our nautical journey with Sam, Leif, and for the very first time, Jordan, discussing the second novel in the Percy Jackson series! But is this homage to the Odyssey as fun as The Lightning Thief ? How do we feel about the ways this book has aged in the last twenty years?...

Send us Fan Mail Happy belated New Year...or as happy as can be managed given the circumstances. Join us in a quick jump back to December, where Shami, Jas, Leif, Grady, and Frankly celebrated the last big winter holiday, at least for us here at IER: Public Domain Day! Here we discuss the multitude of jazz standards and early films that now belong to the world at large, and try not to fear the new...

Send us Fan Mail At long last, we spearhead a new holiday tradition for IER: A  Twelfth Night on the Twelfth Night. As we bid farewell to the holiday season and 2025, Jas, River, Conor, and Beth talk about the most recent Shakespeare in the Park production of  Twelfth Night starring Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, and Peter Dinklage that PBS very kindly released on their website (and can now be fo...

Send us Fan Mail We close out IER's 2025 with a real treat! On January 6, 2026, Katie Bernet's debut novel that reimagines Little Women as an YA murder mystery, and she has graciously allowed us to not only tell you all about it, but spoke with us about her love of Alcott's novel and the process in placing the March sisters into a modern thriller. Join Jas, Ellie, Violet, Shami, and...

Send us Fan Mail It's Christmas with the Marlowes! Jas has been cordially invited to meet Charlotte's sister Rachel, and their father Jim, as Charlotte bequeaths their first wish to their sister in the spirit of the season. Curl up with the festive beverage of your choice as we discuss a little known TV movie called Karroll's Christmas , a long time holiday tradition for Charlotte&a...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Hanukkah to you dear listeners, and while we do not have eight specials to talk about this year, we do have three! From a lesser known TV movie based on a beloved picture book, to the millennial nostalgia of Even Stevens' spin on It's a Wonderful Life , to the truly enhappifying episode of The Ghost and Molly McGee , Jas, Shami, Chandler, and Charlotte have much to...

Send us Fan Mail December 16, 2025 is the 250th birthday of Jane Austen, and we at In Each Retelling are very very very sorry for celebrating this auspicious occasion with a film that fails as a not only an adaptation of her masterpiece, but also fails as an adaptation of the Melissa de la Cruz novel it was also based on, as a romantic comedy, and arguably even as a Hallmark Christmas movie! Join...

Send us Fan Mail Yet another Wild Card Wish has come to us in the form of OKZoomer cofounder Billy Roddie asking Jas to draw them a sheep...erm, I mean, asking us to discuss the animated film adaptation of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Join them as well as Sam and Ellie as we prove that a story need not be complicated in order to be deep, the perils and promise of growing up, and...

Send us Fan Mail We begin our December with the first Little Women bookend, and what else can we talk about than the critically acclaimed, and lovingly memed 2019 adaptation directed by Greta Gerwig and featuring a truly star studded cast. Join a near perfect reflection of the Marches and Laurie, Jas, Sam, Gillian, Violet, and Conor, in discussing the ways this film updates (and arguably upgrades)...

Send us Fan Mail Dearly beloved listeners, we've gathered here to not just close out Oz Month, but to in some way eulogize one of the first great losses of an artist of this year, David Lynch. Join Jas, Ellie, and Todd in discussing the documentary Lynch/Oz , a deep dive into how Lynch was inspired by the 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz , but also is a love letter to cinema in general....

Send us Fan Mail At long last, as the year long intermission has come to a close, we finally have our episode on the first half of the Wicked duology of films that has truly swept the nation, and perhaps changed the landscape of movie musicals. Join Jas, Charley, Ella, and newcomers Sophie and DGil (one of whom is the one true naysayer of this beloved film in this episode) as we discuss whether or...

Send us Fan Mail Oz Month continues with a prequel of the Oz mythos...no, not that one, the one directed by Sam Raimi and starring an about to be cancelled James Franco. Join Ellie, Charley, Gillian, and Jas (with a cameo from Roxanne, who longtime listeners might recognize from our Mummy episode!) as we discuss how somehow Disney looked at the success of  Wicked and missed damn near everything th...

Send us Fan Mail Oz Month has finally begun, and instead of the Yellow Brick Road, Jas, River, and Gillian are taking the Yellow Sidewalk with Phineas and Ferb! Join us as we talk about the quirky joys of this ever memeable cartoon, what makes a good Oz parody, and how Candace is overdue for her Jeanie Bueller arc! The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only, the views and opinions ex...

Send us Fan Mail We do indeed remember, remember the 5th of November...but it has very little to do with the actual Guy Fawkes. Surprise, dear listeners, we have an extra episode, and another wild card wish, this one from Wall Dweller Sam, and we're here to talk about the 2005 V for Vendetta that so angered Alan Moore that he never wanted to work with Hollywood again, but as far as Jas, Sam,...

Send us Fan Mail And now for one last Halloween treat for you, dear listeners, our annual Monster Mash episode to start off your Halloweekend right (pay no attention to that defrosting Mariah Carey behind the curtain) with a nostalgic item for your host, Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School ! Join Jas, Leif, Gillian, and for the very first time Daelen in exploring the ways this movie provides some cute...

Send us Fan Mail It's time for yet another Monster Month Wish, this time our very first legasequel, and our very first time discussing the Ghostbusters franchise, which of course has never caused anyone any problems, right? Join Jas, Rhaps, and Wish Guest of Honor DND (and perhaps a surprise cameo for later...) as we discuss the undeniable parallels between this movie and a certain space wiza...

Send us Fan Mail Monster Month 3: Dream Warriors in the Underworld continues with Amy's wish for us to cover The Company of Wolves . Join her, Jas, Sam, Grady, and Gillian as we journey into the woods (and try to not make too many references to a certain musical) and discuss how this film brings the classic tale back to its metaphorical roots, the good, bad, and ugly of the various werewolf t...

Send us Fan Mail Monster Month 3 continues with our first of three wishes this month, River tasks us to watch and discuss the first two seasons of the Netflix adaptation of Castlevania ! Join them, Jas, Katie, Nick, and Violet on a journey through various attractive characters, monstrous and otherwise, discussing how this show relates to both Bram Stoker's novel and the many Castlevania games...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Monster Month, and happy Mad Hatter Day, dear listeners, and we are starting Monster Month 3: Dream Warriors in the Underworld with the loosely inspired by Alice in Wonderland film that put Guillermo del Toro's brand of whimsigoth glory on the map! Join Jas, River, Gillian, and Alex as we do our best not to start crying about this movie by cheering on the brutal not-lif...

Send us Fan Mail For our 100th episode (I know right?), the Loom Spectre of ABC's Once Upon a Time returns. The curse may be here on the show, but it's broken in Storybrooke, and that means what was a pretty solid formula is thrown all the way out of whack. Join four people whose brain chemistries were poisoned by this show at a young age, and the one sane person who saw this show for th...

Send us Fan Mail Twenty years ago, audiences were enchanted by a new version of Pride and Prejudice from debut director Joe Wright, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew McFayden. Today, Jas, Nick, Charley, Violet, and Ellie discuss how they love this film, most ardently, and what makes this story such a good blueprint from the genre of romance. The following podcast is for entertainment purposes o...

Send us Fan Mail One Tuesday, September 16th, If Looks Could Kill , a novel about Jack the Ripper facing Medusa (or rather, many Medusas) hits bookstores, and Jas had the pleasure of speaking with author Julie Berry about what inspired her to have these two titans, one from myth, and one from history, collide, and the themes and messages that both she and I hope readers will be sinking their teeth...

Send us Fan Mail We make a proper return with Grady's first wish episode on the 1991 Oscar Winning film The Fisher King . Join Grady, Jas, Leif, and Gillian in our discussion of the sincerity and stylization that makes this fable of friendship, love, and redemption a true wonder, and in crying over how much we all miss Robin Williams. If you haven't seen this film, or find yourself skept...