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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!

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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 good slasher, and just how goddamn weird this eight movie series gets!

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For a belated Mardi Gras celebration, Jas, Shami, Charley, Syd, and Regina tackle The Princess and the Frog, and its place as the last 2D animated Disney Princess movie, and more importantly, Tiana's place as the first Black Disney princess. 

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In Each Retelling belatedly returns with a much belated Valentine's Day episode that was also meant to coincide with the release of the third sequel of this series, Bridget Jones' Diary! Here, Jas, River, Ellie, Shami, and Syd discuss how Bridget Jones is far from the proto feminist icon Lizzie Bennet is, whether or not this is a remotely romantic rom com, and how even more bizarre the novel by Helen Fielding is!

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It's time to shout out our favorite online theatre company/charity with director Sam Marchiony, producer Ilana Greenberg-Sud, and even a special guest appearance from the realms of the public domain! Join host (and leading lady!) Jasmine as they discuss all the ways Shaw's most famous work is tragically relevant to today, the challenges of bringing it onto Zoom theatre, and the fun WETC touches you've all come to expect! Please come join us on YouTube and Twitch on February 1st at 7PM EST, or watch the stream once it uploads, and please...

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For reasons that need not be mentioned, I'm sure you folks could use a distraction, so here are some more outtakes where we talk extensively about our high school experiences, Popcorn the Cat, Heath Ledger, and how we're of course all from the Toy Story universe. Enjoy!

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We're well into January, and partially into our hiatus, but who among us hasn't received a belated gift card or something from a distant relative two weeks after Christmas? So this is just like that! Enjoy this year's holiday themed outtakes special!

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This week we're hesitant to celebrate the new year, but Jas, River, Shami, and Justin can at least celebrate all the new works in the public domain now! Which offbeat personal interests are now eligible for this podcast? How many of these have slashers in the works as we speak? What will Justin's plug be this time? All this and more answered this week!

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Happy New Year, and happy belated Hanukkah, this year we close out our holiday festivities with the "Hanukkah basketball movie" that Disney Channel made, and really wanted to portray as a modernized version of the story of Hanukkah, in spite of it also being based on the life of Lamont Carr. It's about as silly as it sounds, and who better to discuss such a silly movie than Charley, Ella, and Bex? As our host Jasmine put it, it's like middle school all over again, she's hanging out with her Jewish buddies and w...

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In honor of the Christmas season and Rod Serling's birthday, we discuss "Night of the Meek", the Twilight Zone Christmas special so nice they did it twice! Join Jas, Charley, Shami, Grady, and Justin discuss the value of the idea of Santa Claus and how it's perfectly encapsulated in this story of an kind, alcoholic department store Santa who's given the chance to spread the sort of joy Christmas is meant to be about.

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For reasons that totally only have to do with the upcoming remake, we're taking a detour in our holiday festivities to discuss the oldest film on our docket yet, Nosferatu: A Symphony in Horror! Join Jas, Shami, Conor, and Justin in discussing how shockingly well this film from the medium's infancy holds up, and how influential it is to all vampire media!

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Hanukkah's arrived a little early on In Each Retelling, just in time for the 10th anniversary of the first fan episode of Gravity Falls, and the collaboration of our guests, Charley Marlowe and Ella Cesari, hosts of Mystery Shack Lookback! Join us as they discuss the various inspirations that went into this delightful 15 minute fanwork, most especially Charley's Super Grandma!

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that it is Jane Austen's birthday today, so what better way to celebrate than to discuss different ways to bring the holiday spirit into her tales...which in two of these pitches' cases, we mean literally! Surprisingly we have a number of spooky Christmas pitches here, from an absolutely bugnuts crossover from Grady, to Ellie and Jas both tackling Austen's first novel in different, but equally ghostly ways. In spite of the fact Hallmark will likely never make these, we sure mentioned it a lot in this...

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Harold? They're lesbians. What better time than the holiday season for us to get another wish, this time another wild card wish from Ellie, and what other wish could Ellie have given us but the 2015 queer cinema Christmas classic, Carol, the sole film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel (though not for lack of trying by 1950s Hollywood). Join them with Sam and Beth as we discuss the merits of this adaptation of such a groundbreaking lesbian novel (or lack thereof...Alphabet Mafia, please leave Sam alone)!

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At long last, we've reached the Emerald City of our exploration of the Oz mythos with the musical that made your hostess about 25-50% of who fae are today, Wicked: The Musical, the blockbuster musical that has been astounding audiences for 20 years, and is now being made into a duology of films. Join Jas, River, Callie, and Sam as we unpack whether the plot makes any sense in this show, the ways this show is able to rewrite people's brain chemistry, and all the ways that it unfortunately reminds us of the current p...

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As moviegoing audiences defy gravity with Wicked: Part One, we at In Each Retelling must explore how we got the beloved musical that's sweeping the nation...including going back to the novel written by Gregory Maguire in the 90s that our hostess has...complicated feelings about that faer going to need her friends Adele and Amy to help faer unpack. 

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The yellow brick road is looking a little worse for wear in this entry of Oz Month, where Jas must finally tackle the infamous flop that traumatized even the hardy Gen X kids, Return to Oz...but is it really as awful as its reputation, or is this a hidden gem of whimsigoth goodness that deserves more love? Join Jas with Return to Oz superfan Charley, just Oz in general superfan Bex, and of course a couple of delightful nerds named River and Leif as we discuss whether or not this movie should...

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In honor of a certain film coming in through the Western sky, the IER gang is heading over the rainbow and down the Yellow Brick Road, and where else could we start than the technical, artistic marvel that was the 1939 film starring Judy Garland. Join Jas, River, Addie, Leif, and Matt in discussing all the ways this movie is a little bit more of a miracle than average, the ways it's both a loving tribute and almost an improvement on the original novel, and how important it is to not take things for...

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Dracula Weekly finally returns (ironically after a Monster Month length hiatus, oops), and all is not right in both the novel AND among our intrepid heroines, as someone has replaced a member of our group, and another someone intends to steal that someone's copy of Dracula Daily! Which is at least more cheerful than Mina losing her will to live, and a rather dull road trip to Dracula's Castle.

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We wrap up Monster Month 2: The Dead are Rising with our Halloween Monster Mash episode (shhhh it's still technically Spooky Weekend, let us have this), and what else COULD we pick for that in strike free times but 2004's Van Helsing, which much like The Mummy (2017) is a much maligned attempt to reboot the Universal Monsters...but is it good actually?...probably not. But is it fun? Hell yes. Join Jas, River, Callie, Ellie, and Justin as we discuss the joys of monsterfuckery, the issues with a lack of character development, and what a...

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Monster Month continues with Sam Marchiony's birthday wish for us to discuss the 1989 adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera, starring Robert Englund, and unfairly considered to be an attempt to make a Nightmare on Elm Street style Phantom, which is likely why it didn't get the credit it deserves. Join Jas, Sam, and Callie as we relish the slasher, dark academic, Labyrinth-ian vibes of this Phantom adaptation...and please, remember, if you're dealing with a murderer who only lives through his music, make sure you burn all the copies.

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Trick or Treat comes early this year, dear listeners, with another IER/WETC collaboration as Jas discusses Ilana's upcoming adaptation of the JR Planche's theatrical adaptation of Polidori's The Vampyre! Here we talk about one of the lesser known early vampires, and how Worlds Elsewhere plans to put its own Worlds Elsewhere spin on the play that got massively overshadowed by Dracula.

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Time for the most dead risingest entry in Monster Month 2: The Dead Are Rising, with the now 20 year old comedy classic, Shaun of the Dead, a deconstruction/parody of zombie films in general, and therefore borrows a lot from Night of the Living Dead. If you're here, you already know how hilarious this movie is...but have you ever considered all of the themes and how relevant it is to real life, especially in the 2020s? Well, you're going to now!

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Monster Month 2: The Dead Are Rising continues with giggling slumber party energy as Jas, River, Callie, Kyle, and Charley all discuss the rare instant cult classic, Lisa Frankenstein, and how it's a more faithful adaptation of the original novel than even the host initially thought, how it also replicates the dynamic of Mary and Percy Shelley, and how it's a perfectly told dick joke. Hollywood, please let Zelda Williams and Diablo Cody make more monster movies.

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Welcome to Monster Month 2: The Dead are Rising, and a new world of gods and monsters! For our very first wish episode, as requested by Callie, we are beginning October with a discussion of the much reviled Tom Cruise vehicle disguised as what could've started the Dark Universe franchise, The Mummy (2017). Join Jas, Callie, and newcomer Sabrina as they discuss what went wrong, what's at least a lot of fun, and...to be honest, thirst over Sofia Boutella as Princess Ahmanet, the sexiest mummy alive. We're only a little sorry.

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This week was 90 pages long and very heavy in terms of subject matter. On the one hand, all of the people who want to fight Dracula for Lucy's memory are getting together. On the other hand, Renfield finally gets some depth just before his death and Mina is Dracula's next victim...

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Once again we're running a little late on future episodes, so enjoy some outtakes from the Stray Gods episode!

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River
https://twitter.com/DreamsRebel
https://filmlion.wordpress.com/
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Ellie
https://twitter.com/elessar42
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Callie
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Good news: Ellie finally admits to actually being Carmilla, the Harkers know that Dracula was real, and Van Helsing continues to be a cinnamon roll among vampire slayers.

Bad News: Laura has been kidnapped by Dracula, Seward is a stubborn skeptic, and Lucy is probably eating kids.

Surely Dracula can be defeated under these conditions.

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It's the week of Friday the 13th and no one's luck in this novel has improved at all. Lucy continues to fade away, and Van Helsing desperately tries to save her from not just Dracula, but her own mother's attempts to get rid of her garlic flowers. Additionally, we suggest that vampire hunters should start more restaurants with lots of garlic recipes.

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Jas and Callie may be despondent over happenings on a whole other podcast, but not to worry, there's plenty of misery to go around in Dracula as well, with a whopping four deaths, including our beloved Lucy Westenra. About the only levity we have is Callie's silly jokes and one very good wolfy boy...and also Jas, Shami, and Callie are ready to address the giant panther in the room while Ellie's away...

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On the 23rd day in the month of September, in a year from a decade not too long before our own, a threat to the sanctity of a cult classic musical came into being...or did it? Dear listeners, your host did not expect her friends to be so eager to read her silly little sequel to one of her favorite musicals, but they did, and now you get to hear this utter nonsense!

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It is now officially the equinox and sadly Hadestown (Act II) is still in progress, but the good news is there's a whole hour of bonus goofs and tangents that I can share while Hades and Persephone reunite and hopefully bring autumn to the land instead of rising temperatures that remind us that sadly no, Orpheus did not stop climate change.

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We may have forgotten a little thing called spring, but that doesn't mean we can't still discuss the highly acclaimed and highly popular musical adaptation of the tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice, that also saw fit to make it all about the reason for the autumn season, Hades & Persephone. In the kind of jam packed episode we will never allow to happen again, hear us discuss all of the iterations that Hadestown has had over the years, and all the ways it's made us laugh, cry and think along the way.

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Because talking about 10 Things I Hate About You made us yearn for a simpler time when mid budget movies that set Shakespeare plays in high school existed, we've decided to pitch our own versions! Could King Lear be about Texas high school football? Can you thread the needle between the very different moods of a Measure for Measure adaptation? What if someone decided the answer they wanted to give for "which Shakespeare play do you want to adapt to a high school setting" was "yes"? All this and more will be answered in...

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It's the 13th episode, and perhaps that's why Dr. Seward's having such a rough week between potentially watching the girl he loves die, and Renfield having more and more mental breakdowns because Dracula abandoned him...but truthfully, we don't care so much about Seward, so Jas, Ellie, and Shami find themselves discussing Van Helsing finally arriving, geography, and recognizing Dracula is likely responsible for the time loop ("We have rules, Vlad!").

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It's officially back to school season, and without a strike to stop us, we can finally discuss the absolute high school rom com classic, 10 Things I Hate About You. Join Jas, Sam, Callie, and River in discussing how Petruchio wishes he was Patrick Verona, how much we long for the return of the mid budget movie, especially rom coms, and how such a hateful play giving us a love story this good is a goddamn miracle. Might as well be dedicated to the memory of Heath Ledger.

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Good news, Shami's back, and is torturing Dracula with disco music. Bad news, this is a fairly short segment again where Arthur finally admits something's wrong with his fiancee. So instead we end up talking a lot about vampiric animals, where the hell Quincey's been, and how we promise we're not sponsored by Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe.

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Lightning Thief Month comes to an end with arguably the adaptation that finally did this story justice, the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Here Jas, River, Leif, and for the very first time Edric, will discuss all the ways this brilliant series is both loyal to its source material, and manages to update it in a way that makes this nearly 20 year old story feel fresh and engaging. Maybe one day you'll be a myth, Percy Jackson.

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This week it would seem that our attempts to thwart Dracula have put a target on our beloved Shami's back, so she sadly could not join Jas, Ellie, and Callie this week. To distract ourselves and MAYBE find a solution, we explore how Renfield is a desperate wannabe member of the Evil Polycule, Mina and Jonathan being relationship goals, Lucy is scared and alone, and oddly enough, varying mediocre steampunk Victorian lit crossovers of the early 2000s and how they each portrayed Mr. Hyde. Also is it just us, dear listeners, or is...

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In the penultimate episode of Lightning Thief Month, we discuss the musical adaptation, and it's honestly a little surprising that it exists, and Jas questions whether or not this adaptation is much better than the despised film adaptation in spite of taking just as many liberties, and River and Meredith help explain why the fanbase gives it a pass.

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