In this episode, the Adaptation hosts break down their issues with Artemis Fowl (2020)...and there are many.

Question of the Week: What was one thing you liked about this movie? How soon into it did you facepalm? What is the worst thing that they changed?

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Jess and Kendyl cover the film All the Bright Places (2020), how it played with audience focus and expectations, and how fixing someone else doesn't fix you.

Trigger warning: Just like the novel, this episode contains discussion of suicide, depression, mental illness, abuse, grief, and death. Please, keep yourself safe and skip this episode if these topics could be harmful to you. If you do proceed, please keep in mind that we are in no way mental health experts.

Question of the Week: For those that didn't read the book, when did you realize this story was actually more about Finch? When did you realize it wasn't going to have a happy ending? And for everyone, what was your take away from the ending? Was it too much about Violet?

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Jess and Kendyl discuss Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places, mental health, grief, recovery, and seeing the whole of a person.

Trigger warning: Just like the novel, this episode contains discussion of suicide, depression, mental illness, abuse, grief, and death. Please, keep yourself safe and skip this episode if these topics could be harmful to you. If you do proceed, please keep in mind that we are in no way mental health experts.

Question of the Week: How did you feel about the counselor’s interactions with Finch?

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Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl discuss the first two books in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer, its calculating protagonist, middle grade humor, and their favorite play on words... ever?

Question of the Week: What do you think Artemis's first heist would have been?

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Dorin and Kendyl tackle David Copperfield by Charles Dickens—a marathon novel with a large cast of outlandish characters—with a focus on identity, David's surprising faith in people, and an even more unexpected defense of Dora.

Question of the Week: What parallels do you see between David Copperfield characters and sitcom characters?

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Is The Secret Garden the perfect book for quarantine? Dorin and Kendyl think it just might be, with it's fresh-baked-bread-wholesomeness, themes of how nature connects us all, and early meditations on mental health.

Question of the Week: Do you think that the author's intent was to make a statement about mental health, even with such an early understanding of it?

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Adaptation gets down to business in this commentary on the 1998 Disney film Mulan!

Question of the Week: Which metaphor in this movie is your favorite? Blossoming flowers? Rice? Reflections? The howling mountain?

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The colors. The music. The farce. There was so much to love about the 2020 film adaptation of Emma and the team gets into it in this episode, but not without a few disagreements along the way. 

Question of the Week: When do you think Knightley knew he was in love with Emma in this version? In other adaptations?

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Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl watch the 1996 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma in what might be the most talk-filled commentary we've ever done.

Question of the Week: What is the most important element to get right in retelling Emma's story for you?

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Relisten to this 2013 episode where Jess and Kendyl cover Emma by Jane Austen and what it means to like and root for a main character.

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