Manners & Madness: A Jane Austen & David Lynch Podcast

This week we a show full of holiday cheer! It’s an episode filled with our particular style of silliness and a fun cap to a great year of podcasting.

This week we have some holiday fun and watch the ultimate classic movie, The Wizard of Oz. It was a big influence on David Lynch (and everyone else) and we have a lot of fun revisiting it. We hope everyone is having a happy holiday season!

This week we cover maybe the nuttiest version of Pride and Prejudice, the 1940 movie adaptation, starring Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier. It’s an adaptation that has to be seen to be believed and we do our best to chronicle all of its eccentricities.

This week we cover another special request, The Angriest Dog in the World. This is a collection of comic strips made by David Lynch over 9+ years. We do our best to thoroughly cover this small collection and then we have some time for some Thanksgiving food talk at the end. Thank you to Blake for requesting this episode!

This week we are covering the 2010 Bollywood Rom Com Aisha. We have a blast with this modern adaptation of Emma, the active and attractive ,popular group, of trendy twenty somethings keep us guessing as to who will end up with who, all set to an epic soundtrack. Thank you to Mithul for suggesting this movie!

This week we finish watching The Elephant Man. Our hearts are overwhelmed with emotion as John Merrick’s circumstances rise and fall and rise again. This movie is truly a classic with a wonderful cast and masterful direction.

This week we start the David Lynch classic The Elephant Man. It is a beautiful and heartbreaking movie that shows the best and worst of humanity. It is also almost surprisingly quintessentially Lynch.

This week we check-in spooky style with our Halloween Special. We celebrate the podcasts 3 year anniversary, talk everything Halloween-Horror, and take our annual candy quiz.

This week we wrap up the murder mystery Death Comes to Pemberley. We wade through yet another trial, but as we suspected Elizabeth solves the crime just in the knick of time. Who’s suspicions were right and what was just a red herring, find out with us as we dissect the ending.

This week we have the second episode of Death comes to Pemberley. Clues and red herrings abound as we try to unravel the mystery. Will we figure out the killer before Elizabeth does? Will the Darcy’s marriage survive? Ultimately the question remains, who dun it?

This week we start our Halloween watch with episode one of Death Comes to Pemberley. We have a blast getting to know what all of our beloved characters are up to now, while we question everyone’s motives and ask ourselves, who done it.

This week we are covering the original Twin Peaks Soundtrack, and the Lynch, Badalamenti, Cruise trifecta. We have a blast learning new information and comparing notes about each song.

This week we have a special interview with Mia Del Guidice. She recently played Anne Elliot in the short film treatment, Persuasion: A Diverse Adaptation of Jane Austen’s Timeless Classic by, Zoë Hodge. We ask her about playing Anne Elliot, her experience with David Lynch, and her thoughts on the new Netflix adaptation.

This week we drop everything for a sick day. We talk about what we watched on our down week as one of us was laid up with Covid. There are spoilers for Prey, Reservation Dogs and the first episode of House of the Dragon the new Game of Thrones prequel.

This week we present an episode of a different podcast that we guested on, First Impressions Podcast. We are talking with Maggie and Kristen all about Modern Persuasion, an adaptation starring Alicia Witt. Check out their wonderful podcast!

This week we have a special Twin peaks season two wrap-up episode with our very special guest, John Bernardy. We talk about all the prominent storylines, speculate on what could have been, and pick John’s brain for all the interesting bits of Twin Peaks lore he’s learned over the years.

This week we are covering the very recent Netflix adaptation of Persuasion. We discuss how fandom and social media can color our interpretations, ways in which modernization can actually make things clearer, and how there can be many readings and interpretations of Anne Elliot and company.

This week we give ourselves a mental health check-up and discuss plans for the pod. We review Fire Island, Sanditon and the final section of Twin Peaks season 2, then answer some summer themed questions, as well as figuring out our Sanditon BFF.

This week we a covering the season 2 finale of Twin Peaks. It’s a devastating, yet strange and wonderful ride, maybe the most “Lynchian” episode yet and we enjoyed every moment of it.

This week we are already to the finale of Sanditon. A lot happens, as we frantically race from story line to story line. Some endings are more satisfying than others and pieces are set up for season 3.

This week we reach the penultimate episode of season 2. The pageant is finally here and all the ladies talents are on display. A winner is declared and havoc ensues.

This week we fly through Sanditon, as the plot ping pongs back and forth, throughout episodes 3 & 4. The town is amazed by a balloon, fooled by liars, and finally puts it’s foot down on the sugar trade.

This week we are covering S2 Ep20 of Twin Peaks, The Path to the Black Lodge. Doom is in the air but our characters can only see love. We are barreling toward the finale with hope and fear.

This week we start our coverage of Sanditon season 2. We recap the first 2 episodes, and see who is back and who is not. We also meet several new characters and speculate where all these story lines are headed.

This week we are covering the hilarious new Jane Austen adaptation Fire Island. We make all the connections and root for the characters as they follow familiar paths that still seems fresh.