Adaptation Podcast
The podcast for in-depth discussion on film adaptations and the original material they're based on.
Episodes
The Adaptation team discusses Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo, the final installment in the Grisha trilogy.
Question of the Week: How much do any of these characters (but particularly Alina) owe to Ravka? How much are they required to sacrifice for the people and/or Grisha?
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The team discusses Matilda: The Musical (2022).
Question of the Week: How do you feel about the addition of the backstory with the escapologist and the acrobat?
Breaking the (Autistic) Code: Matilda (1996) (Vocal Media)
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Question of the Week: What is your favorite thing about this version and what would you hope they keep in the musical?
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The team discusses Matilda by Roald Dahl, in all it's nostalgia and darkness.
Question of the Week: Do you agree with Miss Honey's interpretation of Matilda's powers and why she no longer has them at the end?
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Jenn and Kendyl discuss Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).
Question of the Week: What do you think the next Black Panther movie will look like?
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Discussing the film The School for Good and Evil (2022) with series fans and non-readers.
Question of the Week: Do you think that students have been sorted incorrectly because the school master was in charge?
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Adaptation discusses the pros and cons of the film Catherine, Called Birdy (2022).
Question of the Week: Did you find the ending satisfying? Would you change anything?
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Digging into good and evil stereotypes with The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani.
Question of the Week: What class would you be most excited to take (in either school)?
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...A packed episode to discuss Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)!
Question of the Week: What should the name of the Billy Butcherson movie be?
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Jess, Jenn, and Kedyl discuss the middle grade novel Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman.
Question of the Week: Did the journal make Birdie less childish/more learned?
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The team talks Persuasion (2022) and finds that they didn't all have negative reactions.
Question of the Week: If we were to make a movie in this tone, time period, and style, what story should be told this way?
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The Adaptation team discusses Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).
Question of the Week: What are the parameters of Eternity?
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The team talks about Jane Austen's Persuasion.
Question of the Week: What's your favorite interpretation of an Austen heroine? Who has yet to be done well?
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Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl discuss Lightyear (2022).
Question of the Week: Knowing Buzz from Toy Story, what was one thing that you expected to see? How did it meet your expectations?
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Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl talk Jurassic World Dominion (2022).
Question of the Week: What do you think the core of this movie should have been about?
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Adaptation talks Sneakerella (2022).
Question of the Week: Is Cinderella too cringe to adapt in the modern-age? What elements just can't translate anymore? Are there an elements that can be modernized?
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Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl talk Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).
Question of the Week: What do you think happened in the 838? Are we mid-hex? Where is Vision?
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Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl talk about Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo and complain about Mal.
Question of the Week: What came first for Nikolai: the desire for the throne or realizing his family was incompetent?
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Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl talk about season one of One of Us Is Lying (2021-2022).
Question of the Week: If you didn't know it was Jake, do you think you'd be able to figure it out with the information the show gives?
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