Be Good and Rewatch It

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​Caution Warnings: ​We talk about assault and sexual violence over the course of this episode

Be not alarmed, listener, that this episode contains any further renewal of the ​Pride and Prejudice ​podcast series. But many different letters were laid to our charge over the course of this re-watch, and now honor demands that Austin, Natalie, and Rob be allowed to respond. We have a very serious conversation about Lydia's storyline and the challenges it poses in any adaptation or in any attempt to modernize it. We also also get some excellent food for thought about neurodivergent characters in Austen's work and in this particular adaptation of ​Pride and Prejudice. ​Speaking of food, we finally learn what that "sausage pastry" was from the first episode. Thanks once again for listening to this absurdly detailed, loving, and ridiculous return to a landmark TV series.

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This continues to get out of hand. Once again we got in too deep, so our second episode of the BBC ​Pride and Prejudice ​only covers the third episode of the miniseries. But who can blame us! As connoisseurs of human folly, we are eager to savor such delights as these: Charlotte Lucas's marriage to Mr. Collins and what it is meant to say in the original novel, versus Lucy Scott's decides to portray in her reading of the character. Mr. Wickham's increasingly oily charm and aggressive self-pity. Lady Catherine, in which we get a taste of what happens if you took Lizzie's and Mrs. Bennett's worst possible traits and poured money over them. Col. Fitzwilliam's catastrophic assistance to Darcy. And finally, Darcy's own attempts at balancing romance with radical honesty.

Clips: Darcy's Confession, Rest in Fucking Pieces Mr Darcy, 2005 Darcy Confession

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Content Warning for discussion of incest, sexual harassment, and relationship age gaps.

Clueless ​was one of the most successful movies of 1995, and also proved to have one of the most important legacies. A modern adaptation of Jane Austen's ​Emma​, ​Clueless ​was a comedy of manners for children of the 1990s... or at least those who dreamed of what life might be like if you were that young, that rich, and that insulated from consequences. But does its tongue-in-cheek portrayal of young women and their social lives hold up today? Did the media that came after ​Clueless ​and often imitated it, like ​Cruel Intentions ​and later ​Gossip Girl​, break from the film's philosophy or merely unearth a darkness that was already there? So is Paul Rudd like her step-brother, and isn't that kind of weird? Danielle, Natalie, and Rob dig into all of it on this episode of ​Be Good and Rewatch It​.

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