Adaptation Podcast

Is The Secret Garden the perfect book for quarantine? Dorin and Kendyl think it just might be, with it's fresh-baked-bread-wholesomeness, themes of how nature connects us all, and early meditations on mental health. Question of the Week: Do you think that the author's intent was to make a statement about mental health, even with such an early understanding of it?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com...

Adaptation gets down to business in this commentary on the 1998 Disney film Mulan ! Question of the Week: Which metaphor in this movie is your favorite? Blossoming flowers? Rice? Reflections? The howling mountain?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

The colors. The music. The farce. There was so much to love about the 2020 film adaptation of Emma and the team gets into it in this episode, but not without a few disagreements along the way.  Question of the Week: When do you think Knightley knew he was in love with Emma in this version? In other adaptations?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/Adaptat...

Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl watch the 1996 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma in what might be the most talk-filled commentary we've ever done. Question of the Week: What is the most important element to get right in retelling Emma's story for you?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com...

Relisten to this 2013 episode where Jess and Kendyl cover Emma by Jane Austen and what it means to like and root for a main character.   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

The team is back to praising Lana Condor's acting while covering To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020), even though they have some fairly big issues with the movie's structure. But who can say no to John Ambrose McLaren? Question of the Week: If you had put something in a time capsule in middle school, what would it have been?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodc...

In this episode, Jenn and Kendyl have some differing reactions to Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020), from the pacing to the character interpretations. Question of the Week: What characters from this movie are you interested in seeing more from?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/Adap...

Is there anything like the nostalgia we have for middle school? Can we ever really see ourselves clearly? Will some people be bonded to you forever? Corey, Jenn, and Kendyl dive deep into the world of Jenny Han's To All the Boys universe with the second book in the series, P.S. I Still Love You . Question of the Week: What is the one thing that you'd be devastated if they didn't include in the mov...

Jess, Dorin, and Kendyl watched the first series of His Dark Materials (2019) and talk through the timeline, daemon, and character adaptations in this episode. Question of the Week: How did you feel about the prominence of the daemons? Did you ever forget that they were part of this world?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com...

Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl discuss the 2020 film adaptation Little Women , the important character beats, and how it compares to past adaptations. Question of the Week: What is your interpretation of the final scenes? Was that Louisa May Alcott? Do Jo and Friedrich actually end up together?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/A...

Relisten to the 2015 episode in which Jess and Kendyl discuss Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, remembering how they felt reading it in younger years and how their opinions have changed.   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

It might not technically be an adaptation, but the hosts couldn't resist talking about Frozen II (2019): the emotional new songs, cute new sidekicks, and Kristoff's Best Boyfriend award. Question of the Week: What origins could the other (non-water) spirits have in Scandinavian folklore?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/A...

In this episode, Adaptation discusses Let It Snow (2019) with hosts that have and hosts that have not read the John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle novel it's based on. Question of the Week: What are your theories about the tin foil? Why does she/he wear it?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adapt...

In covering the Hulu series Looking for Alaska (2019), the Adaptation hosts consider the target audience, who sees Alaska as she is, and the changes the show made to the friendship dynamics from the John Green novel. Question of the Week: For non-readers, what did you think the show was suggesting the countdown was for before the reveal?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationp...

Covering Jojo Rabbit (2019) in this episode leads the team to discuss the absurdist tone, unlearning prejudice, and the great shifts in plot from the original novel. Question of the Week: Did you have a positive reaction to this film, particularly to the combination of tone and subject matter? If not, why?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPo...

With all the love they have for the Addams family unit, we try very hard to find something to love in 2019's animated reboot The Addams Family . Question of the Week: What did you find redeeming about this film? What would you have liked to see from previous Addams incarnations?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/Adaptation...

Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl try to get to the truth of Caging Skies by Christine Leunens while desperately trying to contain their anger at the main character. Question of the Week: WHAT IS THE TRUTH?! In other words, since we are following an unreliable narrator, what do you think the truth of the situation is in this book? How much do you think Elsa knows by the end (if she is real)?   Follow us! ad...

In this episode, we get into the complexities of the first book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series, Northern Lights aka The Golden Compass . Question of the Week: What would your daemon be and what does that say about you? Is it the same as your patronus?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptati...

Dorin and Kendyl cover the film The Goldfinch (2019), what it focused on from the very long book, how the themes came through, and how the characters were adapted. Question of the Week: How did the movie's flashback/out-of-order format work for you?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr....

  Dorin, Jenn, and Kendyl discuss the character journeys in It Chapter Two (2019), the adult casting, and how the flashbacks worked with the story. Question of the Week: Which character do you feel had the best journey? Which wasn't done justice?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com...

Jenn, Jess, and Kendyl dive into the third John Green novel that we've covered on Adaptation, Looking for Alaska . The group talks through the friendships, the pranks, and seeing others fully. Question of the Week: What do you think happened to Alaska?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumb...

Corey and Kendyl are back for the movie adaptation Where'd You Go, Bernadette? (2019), still worrying over the portrayal of mental illness in this story, but also discussing how sympathetic the characters are and how the movie focuses the book themes. Question of the Week: Do you think that the film successfully portrays that need for a creative outlet or does it do a disservice to conversations a...

Dorin and Kendyl read The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, a 770 page book, and now they are tired. But they have just enough energy left to work through all the feelings that the book gave them in this episode. Question of the Week: Do you think the Goldfinch dragged Theo down, kept him afloat, or stagnated him?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPo...

Corey and Kendyl dive into the novel Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple and have a lot of feelings about recognizing when people need help, romanticizing mental illness, and creative outlets as a "cure" for depression. Question of the Week: What do you think happens when Bernadette gets back to Seattle? What would you like to happen?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adapta...

Jenn, Corey, and Kendyl get into the remake of a movie that caused many a meltdown in 1995 and in the years since, The Lion King , and all the reasons to love and hate it. Question of the Week: Where did you land on "Be Prepared"? Disappointing? Different but okay? Better than the original?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.co...