In Each Retelling
The podcast where we explore how old tales are made new! Whether it's the fairytales we heard as children, the classic literature we read in high school, or the most ancient of mythologies, it seems creators can't help but keep putting their own spin on old stories, and we're going to tackle every flavor we can get our nerdy hands on.
Episodes
102 episodes
Return to Oz
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,...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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1:24:42
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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 Garlan...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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1:35:46
Dracula Weekly #18: Impersonation and Book Stealing on the Orient Express
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 t...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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40:08
Van Helsing
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
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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1:45:19
The Phantom of the Opera (1989)
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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1:11:39
Interview About The Vamp(i)(y)re with Worlds Elsewhere Theatre Company's Ilana Greenberg-Sud!
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 l...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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39:09
Shaun of the Dead
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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1:35:15
Lisa Frankenstein
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 ori...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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1:32:57
The Mummy (2017)
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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1:28:47
Dracula Weekly #17: Dracula Would Have Gotten Away With It If It Wasn't For That Meddling Polycule and Their Rat Catching Dogs!
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 ju...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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48:58
In Each Retake: The Gods are Straying, And So Are the Humans
Once again we're running a little late on future episodes, so enjoy some outtakes from the Stray Gods episode!Find my guests and their stuff!Riverhttps://twitter.com/DreamsRebelhttps://filmlion.wordpress.co...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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26:54
Dracula Weekly #16: The Cat's Out of the Bag
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 stubbor...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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35:30
Dracula Weekly #15: Four Funerals and a Wedding
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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32:39
Dracula Weekly #14: Van Helsing's Extra Garlicky Pizzeria
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 flowe...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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29:06
IER Presents: Little Town of Horrors
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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1:05:43
In Each Retake: Hermes' Pirate Radio
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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1:04:07
Hadestown (Act I)
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 reaso...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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2:02:39
In Our Retellings: Shakespeare in High School
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 Texa...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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47:15
Dracula Weekly #13: Dr. Seward and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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29:35
10 Things I Hate About You
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:31:49
Dracula Weekly #12: We'll Just Defeat Dracula With Disco and Popcorn the Cat, This is Fine
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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29:05
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Season One)
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:50:42
Dracula Weekly #11: This Time It's Personal
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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28:22
The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
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 s...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:19:26
Dracula Weekly #10: Could It Beeeeeeeeeeeee DRACULA?
It's just Jas and Callie today, and the good news is Jonathan's alive! The bad news is Mina and Lucy have no idea of the danger they're in. About the only comfort we have is how gay they're still being, and plotting all the ways we're going to ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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16:58
