In Each Retelling

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...

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...