Our hosts rub their two little grey cells together to get to the bottom of Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Agatha Christie's seminal mystery novel, Murder on the Orient Express. Right when Josh Gad thinks he's gotten away with it, there's just one more thing...

Topics addressed: Woke Hercule Poirot, Scrooge: A Star Wars Story, Jesus Christ

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We're back! and so is Odysseus and boy does he look mad. I'm sure glad I never coveted his wife.

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Sorry about this, folks, but life happens. We'll get back on track as soon as possible.

The Odyssey (2026) is really the Dark Souls II of Greek epic poem adaptations, if you think about it.

Join us as we journey our way across Greece to find our way home alongside Matt Damon, Anne Hathway, Tom Holland, and many more in this epic retelling of Homer's Odyssey directed by Christopher Nolan.

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Mars Attacks!

We interrupt this broadcast of Hot Greek Summer to tell you that aliens have landed and their kind of sexy? or maybe not? All we know is that we can't move on until we deal with this threat.

We have enlisted the aid of Hard Ticket, who have kindly sent aid to our small world by way of Tristan Moore, to help us tackle H.G. Wells 1898 book The War of the Worlds, Byron Haskin's 1953 The War of the Worlds and Spielberg's 2005 War of the Worlds.

He was a lot of fun to have on this episode and very insightful. We encourage everyone to go over to his and his cohost's, Jeff Boggess, show and share the love. You might even catch a few familiar faces in an episode about Ice Skating.

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Tell me about a complicated story

Muse, tell me how its how its adaptations wandered and were lost

Just ahead of Christopher Nolan's huge IMAX interpretation of The Odyssey, we are starting Hot Greek Summer off with Books 1 through 8 of the ancient epic. We dive into our thoughts on the first third of this tale before getting into how a variety of movies, TV shows and novels have taken on the challenge of adapting it for modern audiences. Also, we break the story on Nolan's version featuring Hamilton-style rap breakdowns.

Works discussed: The Odyssey translations by Emily Wilson and Stanley Lombardo, the TV miniseries by Andrei Konchalovsky, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Ulysses 31, Ulysses by James Joyce, Star Wars

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We all just want to be accepted for who we are, and, sometimes, the person we love the most and so desperately want to be accepted and embraced by refuses us. It's a heartbreak of the profoundest sort.

Join us this week as we discuss Maurice, the 1987 film, directed by James Ivory, based on the E. M. Forster novel Maurice, which was written from 1913-1914, but only published posthumously in 1971. Happy Pride!

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Where's Michael when you need him? Twice the technology goblins attacked, so my audio is a little rough (Josh's audio is fine), but it's still a good conversation and debate about how expectations can shape an adaptation's reception. I tried my hardest to clean it up, so I can remain proud of that.

Join us for our discussion on Crazy Rich Asians, at 2018 film directed by Jon M. Chu, based on the 2013 novel Crazy Rich Asians, written by Kevin Kwan.

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Is there a more profound line in all of the English canon than "Dorky chicks like you turn me on too"? Jane Austen could never (or maybe she could).

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You gotta love high school! The dances, the football games, the reification of capitalistic principles.

Join us as we discuss 2004's A Cinderella Story, directed by Mark Rosman, written by Leigh Dunlap, and starring Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray; it is an adaptation of the 1697 French tale "Cinderella" by Charles Perault

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