In Each Retelling

Send us Fan Mail Our IER...IN SPAAAAAAAACE event finally comes to a close, with a combination of space lore and space outtakes. Will Orlok get his special space sunscreen? Will Jas and Iyer finally make it home? And what's up with this crew of space misfits they seem to have acquired in their travels? All this and more amongst outtakes about Star Wars , Star Trek , Witch from Mercury , and Tr...

Send us Fan Mail We're taking the helm and charting our own courses through our adventures in space with the unfortunate Disney flop,  Treasure Planet . Join Jas, River, Sam, Leif, and Justin as we talk about how unfair it is that a movie this emotionally impactful and beautifully animated only recently began to be seen for the Disney classic it always deserved to be. The following podcast is...

Send us Fan Mail Our adventures through space continue on with arguably the blueprint of all the other things we've talked about so far, Forbidden Planet . Here, Jas, Grady, and Kyle Kallgren of Brows Held High fame discuss the ways this film was ahead of its time, the ways in which is was, unfortunately, very much of its time, and the ways it has impacted science fiction as we know it today....

Send us Fan Mail We continue our trek through the stars with...well, our very first Star Trek! Ilana has seen fit to use their wild card wish to talk about the Star Trek: Strange New World s episode inspired by Ursula K. LeGuin's short story "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas" with Jas, Beth, and Edric. Join us for a variety of nerdy discussions, be they philosophical or fandom, as Ja...

Send us Fan Mail We begin our voyage among the stars with Addie's first wish, in which she has chosen to share with Jas and Sam her favorite flavor of comfort trash, the 1998 Lost in Space , which in itself is an adaptation of the hit TV show, which is itself a science fiction reskin of The Swiss Family Robinson , which is itself a take on Robinson Crusoe , you get the idea right? Join us as...

Send us Fan Mail Our belated Pride Month celebrations finally come to an end with Ellie's second wish and our very first anime! Join Jas, Ellie, and Addie in discussing all of the twists to Shakespeare's The Tempest can be found in a tale of giant robots, arranged marriages turned to real ones, and the horrors to war! Stay tuned until the end for a special stinger about what's comin...

Send us Fan Mail We're still catching up on Pride Month and somehow that ended up meaning sapphic fairytale themed dark academia...and unfortunately that's not as enjoyable as that sounds. Join Jas, Ellie, Sam, River, and Violet as they discuss how this YA novel by Laura Pohl (please do not take this personally, we know you're on Tumblr) didn't end up working for any of us. We...

Send us Fan Mail Pride Month 3: Let's Go Lesbians Let's Go may have had some slight delays, but here are Jas, Ilana, Conor, and Ellie all the same to talk about one of two Netflix Cyrano de Bergerac adaptations set in high school, The Half of It , where we discuss how painfully relatable both the film and its source material are to our high school experiences, the value of straight man (...

Send us Fan Mail Pride Month 3: Let's Go Lesbians, Let's Go continues on with yet another heartbreaking tale of love and loss, this one from the IER Vault! Join Jas, Callie, and Michelle in gushing over the gothic romance excellence that is  The Haunting of Bly Manor , discussing how Mike Flanagan completely reinvents the works of Henry James and why we in fact applaud him for it. The fo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Pride Month 3: Let's Go Lesbians on In Each Retelling! Jas, Shami, and Ellie journey to the Underworld...or is it 19th century France? In this case, they're arguably on and the same as we discuss  Portrait of a Lady On Fire , its Orphic allusions, and what this film represents in terms of queer representation and the solidarity between women.  The following po...

Send us Fan Mail After a far too long hiatus, but more importantly, after two years of strikes and Draculas and the trials of the real world, we have made it to our second anniversary of this podcast, and what better way to celebrate than with the direct to video special that inspired the very first promo we ever did for this podcast? Join Jas, River, Grady, Charley, and Leif in discussing Muppet...

Send us Fan Mail At long last, after months of real world disasters and obligations, and the creators of Dracula Daily even using the title of this segment, we close the book on Dracula Weekly. The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed therein belong only to the speakers. Additionally, this podcast contains swearing, and mentions of racism, misogyny...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Jas, River, and Syd try and fail to pretend the topic of this episode wasn't because of yet another Disney remake in theatres, but hey, at least we get to talk about the way the first full length animated Disney fairytale was the blueprint for all that followed it, the classic songs that got so many covers , and the silly shenanigans the dwarfs kept getting into! T...

Send us Fan Mail He's here to cause chaos, choose violence, and shine shoes! For St. Patrick's Day, Jasmine is joined by newcomers Smith and Chandler to talk about the origins of what is inexplicably the most successful Warwick Davis led franchise, Leprechaun , as we discuss the origins of the creature that's essentially the mascot for the holiday, the do's and don'ts of a...

Send us Fan Mail For a belated Mardi Gras celebration, Jas, Shami, Charley, Syd, and Regina tackle The Princess and the Frog , and its place as the last 2D animated Disney Princess movie, and more importantly, Tiana's place as the first Black Disney princess.  The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed therein are solely those of the speakers. A...

Send us Fan Mail In Each Retelling belatedly returns with a much belated Valentine's Day episode that was also meant to coincide with the release of the  third sequel of this series,  Bridget Jones' Diary ! Here, Jas, River, Ellie, Shami, and Syd discuss how Bridget Jones is far from the proto feminist icon Lizzie Bennet is, whether or not this is a remotely romantic rom com, and how eve...

Send us Fan Mail It's time to shout out our favorite online theatre company/charity with director Sam Marchiony, producer Ilana Greenberg-Sud, and even a special guest appearance from the realms of the public domain! Join host (and leading lady!) Jasmine as they discuss all the ways Shaw's most famous work is tragically relevant to today, the challenges of bringing it onto Zoom theatre,...

Send us Fan Mail For reasons that need not be mentioned, I'm sure you folks could use a distraction, so here are some more outtakes where we talk extensively about our high school experiences, Popcorn the Cat, Heath Ledger, and how we're of course all from the Toy Story universe. Enjoy! The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed therein bel...

Send us Fan Mail We're well into January, and partially into our hiatus, but who among us  hasn't received a belated gift card or something from a distant relative two weeks after Christmas? So this is just like that! Enjoy this year's holiday themed outtakes special! The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed therein belong only to th...

Send us Fan Mail This week we're hesitant to celebrate the new year, but Jas, River, Shami, and Justin can at least celebrate all the new works in the public domain now! Which offbeat personal interests are now eligible for this podcast? How many of these have slashers in the works as we speak? What will Justin's plug be this time? All this and more answered this week! The following podc...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year, and happy belated Hanukkah, this year we close out our holiday festivities with the "Hanukkah basketball movie" that Disney Channel made, and  really wanted to portray as a modernized version of the story of Hanukkah, in spite of it also being based on the life of Lamont Carr. It's about as silly as it sounds, and who better to discuss such a silly m...

Send us Fan Mail In honor of the Christmas season and Rod Serling's birthday, we discuss "Night of the Meek", the Twilight Zone Christmas special so nice they did it twice! Join Jas, Charley, Shami, Grady, and Justin discuss the value of the idea of Santa Claus and how it's perfectly encapsulated in this story of an kind, alcoholic department store Santa who's given the ch...

Send us Fan Mail For reasons that totally only have to do with the upcoming remake, we're taking a detour in our holiday festivities to discuss the oldest film on our docket yet,  Nosferatu: A Symphony in Horror ! Join Jas, Shami, Conor, and Justin in discussing how shockingly well this film from the medium's infancy holds up, and how influential it is to all vampire media! The following...

Send us Fan Mail Hanukkah's arrived a little early on In Each Retelling, just in time for the 10th anniversary of the first fan episode of Gravity Falls , and the collaboration of our guests, Charley Marlowe and Ella Cesari, hosts of Mystery Shack Lookback! Join us as they discuss the various inspirations that went into this delightful 15 minute fanwork, most especially Charley's Super G...

Send us Fan Mail It is a truth universally acknowledged that it is Jane Austen's birthday today, so what better way to celebrate than to discuss different ways to bring the holiday spirit into her tales...which in two of these pitches' cases, we mean literally! Surprisingly we have a number of spooky Christmas pitches here, from an absolutely bugnuts crossover from Grady, to Ellie and Ja...