Legally Blonde: Character is Everything

Pippa and KJ are joined by our friend Rachel to discuss the reality competition series, The Masked Singer! Did you know The Masked Singer is based on a Korean reality show? Listen on to learn more about the Korean original and how the show was adapted for an American audience.

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Sound editing for this episode was provided by Isabel Forden. Cover art by Jess Rubio.

Thanks for hanging with us through our hiatus! New episodes are coming soon, but in the meantime, please check out our re-release of our episode covering Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, now featuring an added intro with our thoughts and opinions on Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. Scott Pilgrim is a great TV show, but is it a good adaptation?

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Pippa and KJ are joined by their friend Emry Sottile to discuss the 2016 TV adaptation of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently books, exploring how shows can be undersold by their own networks, and asking how we should engage with our favorite media after learning upsetting things about a creator.

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Pippa and KJ are ready to talk about the 2000 Coen Brothers film O Brother, Where Art Thou? and how it is an adaptation of The Odyssey into a classic-feeling American fable. Pair this episode with our Hadestown episode if you want maximum mythology!

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Just because it's for kids, doesn't mean that Neil Gaiman's novella and Laika Studios' film aren't creepy as heck. KJ and Pippa discuss the value of spooky stories for kids, and talk about the old short story that inspired Coraline in the first place.

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Well, it's the end of the road. KJ, Pippa, and Isabel discuss the end of the Twilight saga, and look back at how far they've come. Cue the Christina Perri music!

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This week, Pippa and KJ are covering Jeff VanderMeer's strange science fiction novel Annihilation and the 2018 Alex Garland directed film of the same name. Listen on as we grapple with textual and visual ambiguity, the challenges of adapting the dreamlike and the weird, and how Alex Garland adapted by memory.

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KJ and Pippa are back at it talking about Baz Luhrmann, this time discussing his 1996 MTV-inspired adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. But did you know that Shakespeare himself was doing an adaptation with this play? The plot doth thicken...

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This week on Adapt or Die, we tackle The Princess Diaries, the first novel in a series by Meg Cabot and its film adaptation directed by Garry Marshall. We delve into the changes from book to movie, and how to appreciate both as different pieces of art best suited to their respective mediums.

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Sound editing for this episode by Isabel Forden. Cover art by Jess Rubio.