Get ready for a Halloween treat from your Hart Chicks. Our Monster Squad episode drops on October 27, 2023.

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Some friends have a weekly discussion about the 2011-2015 CW show, Hart of Dixie. Join our journey to Bluebell, Alabama where we debate the merits of small town life, love triangles, alligators as pets, and formal shorts as part of your work wardrobe.

Comedy

It’s a Halloween treat for us all as we dive into one of Jaleh’s all-time favorites and Jessica’s core fear, 1987’s The Monster Squad. We’re joined by resident monster expert, Jamie Clark Yeah, as we round up the ammo, virgins, and one Scary German Guy with a delicious looking pie. Grab your amulet and your Van Helsing diary and meet us in the South Hollow town square, dear hearts. 
Music: @sigismundtryapkin 
Artwork: @jstnmbrwn
Bibliography:
“I-Mockery.com | The Monster Squad! Frankenstein Is Bogus and Wolfman’s Got Nards!” Accessed October 14, 2023. http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/monster-squad/.
Nashawaty, Chris. “No One Watched ‘The Monster Squad’ in 1987. In 2020 It’s the Perfect Halloween Movie.” Esquire, October 31, 2020. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a34535785/the-monster-squad-1987-watch-halloween-analysis-essay/.
“The Monster Squad.” In Wikipedia, September 25, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Monster_Squad&oldid;=1177080547.

The Monster Squad

We’ve made it all the way to week 10, and this gem is our reward. We happily rewatch 2013’s film adaptation of Austenland, and we think you should too. This one has everything — sax solos, Lord of the Rings, Nelly stories, Gaius Baltar, and even a little JJ Tilney talk. Hop a plane and clean out your savings account (figuratively) with us, dear hearts.
Music: @sigismundtryapkin 
Artwork: @jstnmbrwn
Bibliography:
“Austenland Movie Review & Film Summary (2013) | Roger Ebert.” Accessed August 25, 2023. https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/austenland-2013.
Taylor, Ella. “To ‘Austenland,’ Where Jane Jokes Go To Die.” NPR, August 15, 2013, sec. Movie Reviews. https://www.npr.org/2013/08/15/211357619/to-austenland-where-jane-jokes-go-to-die.
Wardle, Janice. “Austenland and Narrative Tensions in Austen’s Biopics.” In After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings, edited by Lisa Hopkins, 245–66. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95894-1_12.

Austenland

Lots of firsts in this one, dear hearts, as we watch the Emmy Award-winning Lizzie Bennet Diaries. It’s our first webseries, our first modern adaptation, possibly our first disagreement! Don’t believe us? Ask my fiancé who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba! Plus, Jess goes way into her fandom days, and Jaleh finds the links in the dooblydoo. Whhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!
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Music: @sigismundtryapkin 
Artwork: @jstnmbrwn
Bibliography:
“Friends Forever: Adapting Female Friendships in Pride and Prejudice.” Accessed June 18, 2022. https://jasna.org/publications-2/essay-contest-winning-entries/2017/adapting-female-friendships-in-pride-and-prejudice/.
Halvorsen Zerne, Lori. “Ideology in The Lizzie Bennet Diaries.” Jane Austen Society of North America, Winter 2013. https://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol34no1/zerne.html?
“‘Oh, Lydia!’: Sexual Mores in Twenty-First-Century Updates » JASNA.” Accessed June 18, 2022. https://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/volume-40-no-2/dole-duchene/.

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

We’re into our second Pride & Prejudice, and this time, we got Zombies in the mix. Thankfully, we have Honorary Hart Chick and Midnight Murderaman Jamie to chat through it with us. We ask the big questions like: Which fighting style is best? Is Darcy’s duster jacket fit for a wedding? Who is this movie for? Wield your weapons with us, dear hearts!
Music: @sigismundtryapkin 
Artwork: @jstnmbrwn
Bibliography:
Barker, Andrew. “Film Review: ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.’” Variety (blog), February 2, 2016. https://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-review-1201694888/.
“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Film).” In Wikipedia, August 5, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pride_and_Prejudice_and_Zombies_(film)&oldid;=1168877759.
Taylor, Steve. “‘Religious Piety and Pigs’ Brains’: The Faith of Zombies in Burr Steers’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” Jane Austen Society of North America. Accessed August 10, 2023. https://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/volume-38-no-3/taylor/.
Ursa, Mihaela. “Media Pride and Prejudices of Transmedial Traffic: Enacting Jane Austen with Zombies.” Caietele Echinox 35 (2015): 175–89.

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