Manners & Madness: A Jane Austen & David Lynch Podcast

This week we wrap up our 2023, celebrate Christmas and pleasantly anticipate 2024.

This week we are talking holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas with a little Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason in between.

This week we are starting our holiday celebration with the scariest possible sequel to The Wizard of Oz….Return to Oz. Staring a tiny Fairuza Balk, and our much beloved Piper Laurie, the movie left us with some slight existential dread and a lot of nostalgia.

This week we reach the end of Pride and Prejudice and what a delightful ending it is. The couples we have been rooting for, finally overcome their obstacles and happiness abounds.

This week we reach our penultimate Pride and Prejudice episode. The Lydia situation is resolved and Bingley arrives back in town with a particular friend in tow.

This week we head to Pemberley. After months of soul searching everyone is on their best behavior except for Lydia and Wickham back in Brighton. The emotional rollercoaster continues!

This week we are covering chapters 34-41 in Pride and Prejudice. A proposal, a letter, a self reflection spiral, these chapters are an emotional whirlwind for Miss Elizabeth Bennet.

This week we are talking Halloween Movies. First we talk about different scary movies that have made an impression on us and then we discuss two movies we recently watched, Happy Death Day and Totally Killer.

This week we cover Fire Walk with Me’s missing pieces, perhaps one of the best special features made for a movie. Not only do we get an hour and a half of cut content that could have easily been in the movie but it’s chock full of interesting lore and beloved characters.

This week the podcast turns 4 years old and in celebration we are taking it easy. It’s a short but fun episode where we learn what supernatural being we are.

This week we cover the second half of Fire Walk with Me. This half is whirlwind of increasing intensity that races to the final moments of Laura Palmer’s life. David Lynch’s mastery of film making and sound design are on full display. We wrap up our thoughts on this final piece of Twin Peaks to come out for over 2 decades.

This week we start our coverage of Fire Walk with Me. The prequel that no one was asking for but everyone wanted, it seems to connect more to the Diary of Laura Palmer then to TV show itself. We get a master class in acting from Sheryl Lee and track how this fits in to the rest of David Lynch’s work.

This week we reach the halfway point of Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth takes a trip to see Charlotte new characters are introduced and Darcy reappears on the scene.

This week we cover chapters 18 -24. In these chapters everyone is disappointed and no one is showing themselves in their best light. We get the Netherfield Ball, the Collins proposal and the aftermath of both.

This week we see Jane recover, Collins talk incessantly, and a new smooth talking, good looking scoundrel reveal himself. Elizabeth’s study of human nature is put to the test.

This week we start Jane Austen’s most well known and beloved novel Pride and Prejudice. This week we are covering chapters 1-9, which takes us from an introduction to the Bennets to Jane’s illness and stay at Netherfield.

We finally wrap up our summer of escape ironically recorded at the height of a heat wave and breakdown all that we’ve covered in the last 3 months. We also lay out what in on the horizon for the next 3 months, and find out what summer food we embody.

This week is our final entry into our summer of fun catalogue, and it’s a pure delight. The Goonies is a classic for a reason or at least a classic to us.

This week we are covering a great dark comedy from the 90’s, Death Becomes Her. Full of amazing performances, it zips along hilariously, leaving us wondering if we would take the potion.

This week we lean into the heat and give our brains a vacation with some true campy, sharky, silliness. We watched Jaws 3D and The Meg and had a lot of fun screaming at the tv.

This week we are discussing a point and click adventure game, inspired by Twin Peaks. Kathy Rain is a fun, surreal, investigation based game from indie studio Clifftop Games. It has great characters, fun puzzles and a fun and surprising story with lots of Twin Peaks easter eggs to find.

This week we are revisiting and commenting over the first episode of Sanditon. Now that we know the end, it was a blast to go back to the start and remember Charlotte and our first impression of the town and it’s inhabitants.

This week Christian takes the reins and lets Maya sit back and listen to him tell her about 3 recent horror movies he’s watched, Evil Dead Rise, M3gan, and Smile. Evil Dead Rise - 4:36 M3gan - 23:10 Smile - 34:57

This week we are going off the wall and doing a commentary of the absurd cult classic Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Dust off your old VHS tapes and join us for this most ridiculous silliness.

We are taking the week off for the 4th of July and leaving you to answer some very important questions.