In Each Retelling

Send us Fan Mail On July 7th, award winning journalist Amanda Connolly is set to debut her first foray into authordom with The Lure of Wolves and Whispers , a romantic fantasy novel inspired by Irish mythology centering a young girl in the Isle of Eireann, ruled by a tyrannical, bloodthirsty royal family set against the magic that once thrived. Maeve saves her sister by buying illegal magic, but t...

Send us Fan Mail Pride Month 4: We're Coming Out of the Vault ends with a bang (in more ways than one if the staging is anything to go on) with the racially diverse and extremely gay production of Oscar Wilde's (the original sassy gay) The Importance of Being Earnest starring Ncuti Gatwa! Join Jas, River, Gillian, Syd, and Alex as we discuss the folly of bored rich people, the appropriat...

Send us Fan Mail Well, happy birthday IER, sorry your party's so late. But better late than never to continue our journey as to why our dear hostess' brain is broken this way with a nostalgic item she struggles to defend. Join her, Shami, Gillian, and for the very first time Jen Seggio as we discuss the attempts to make an engaging fairytale musical, the admirable efforts by the actors,...

Send us Fan Mail Technically it's still been less than a month since Nick's birthday, and this episode's topic is very gay, so this episode is now the start of our belated Pride Month festivities with Pride Month 4: We're Coming Out of the Vault and our discussion of the first two seasons of the controversial animated musical series  Hazbin Hotel for Nick's second wish! Jo...

Send us Fan Mail In the fair  Verily a New Hope episode where we lay some scenes that didn't make the final cut, as well as bits of discussion between Sam, River, and I, two new monologues written by Sam Marchiony inspired by the ever brilliant Carrie Fisher,  and finally a preview of our upcoming episode! A very special thank you to Sam Marchiony, River Lane, Shamila Karunakaran, Bijou Daae,...

Send us Fan Mail It is once again time to celebrate May the 4th, and it's also high time we talked about one of the most perfect intersections of nerdy interests out there, the works of Ian Doescher--er, I mean, William Shakespeare as it pertains to the space wizard franchise that surrounds us, binds us, and penetrates us in the landscape of cinema. Join Jas, Sam, River, and a NUMBER of surpr...

Send us Fan Mail Whether 4/20 is a day you celebrate or not, it is always a good idea to celebrate Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical ruthlessly satirizing not just the anti drug PSA of the same name, but the culture that created it. Join Jas, Charlotte, Ella, Gillian, Conor, and Katie in a discussion of the dangerous power of propaganda, and how sometimes making fun of it is the best weapon we hav...

Send us Fan Mail This year's belated Passover episode is full of nostalgia, with both the iconic "A Rugrats Passover" and the much less known Season 2, Episode 9 "Stranger in a Strange Land" of the almost lost media show  Mentors ! Join Jas, Bex, and Shami as we explore the deep meaning this holiday holds for the Jewish people, as well as get a lot of laughs out of the she...

Send us Fan Mail This belated Easter, this is not the Messiah, it's a very naughty podcast! Here Jas, the Duffys, Grady, and Beth have a surprisingly philosophical discussion about the Pythons' farcical take on the life of Jesus Christ, bemoan how relevant the absurdist commentary remains nearly 50 years later, and learn just what the Beatles had to do with all of this! The following pod...

Send us Fan Mail We've been forgetting a little thing called Spring for far too long, and while we're still being haunted by  Hadestown , Jas and River have gathered Sam, Gillian, Alex, Ellie, and for the very first time, Mikey, to retell the story of Hades & Persephone. No kidnappings here, just romance, whether it's through stop motion animation, a good old fashioned rom com,...

Send us Fan Mail Well, it wouldn't be an Odyssey month without a late arrival to the end, would it? At last, we complete our journey through the Sea of Monsters with the second season of  Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Jas continues to marvel at how lucky kids are to grow up with this show, River is still losing it/crying/weeping like a bay-bey, Sam is swearing on both the River Styx and Ri...

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...