Manners & Madness: A Jane Austen & David Lynch Podcast

Sometimes a witch (or an episode) feels like the deck is stacked against them, but if that witch (or episode) perseveres they just might save the day (or commentary)!

This week we have timed things perfectly, so that our Halloween episode aligns with Part 8 of Twin Peaks, The Return. We travel back in time and into David Lynch’s surrealist dream of evil. Let the theorizing commence!

This week is episode 7 of Twin Peaks season 3. Theories are made and dissolved, we question the who of multiple doppelgängers, and try to keep track of the millions of things that happen in this episode.

This week we are covering episode 6 of Twin Peaks season 3. It’s an episode that runs the gamut of emotion from giggles to tears to triumph. We also celebrate our SEVEN year anniversary for the podcast! Can you even believe it?

This week we are back to start the next four episode block of Twin Peaks season three. We travel across many locations touch on several story lines and check back in with some old friends.

This week we cover the final two episodes of The Other Bennet Sister. Mary goes up a mountain, gets a proposal, or two, and finally stands up to her mother.

This week we are covering chapters 7-8 of The Other Bennet Sister. Mary is learning how to cultivate her own happiness, she receives multiple small books, and rides a canoe like a queen. Only two episodes left of this lovely series.

This week we cover chapters 5-6 of The Other Bennet Sister from BBC. Mary learns to speak up for herself and then spends some time with her family and tries not to fall back into old patterns.

This week we follow Mary to London in Chapters 3 & 4 of The Other Bennet Sister. We see her finally getting to make her own choices and open herself up to a whole new world.

This week we are starting a new series, The Other Bennet Sister. Focusing on Mary Bennet we get to see the world through the middle sister’s eyes and we immediately relate to her.

Tim Curry has become an important part of the podcast over the years. A third pillar of excellence we love to include. We were very sorry to learn of his passing and wanted to acknowledge him and his legacy with this short episode. Rest in Peace Tim Curry.

This week we wrap up Folk Horror Summer! We talk themes, favorites, and what’s up next for the podcast.

As our final entry into Folk Horror Summer we are playing a folk horror game called The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow. This very fun point and click, from Cloak & Dagger and Wadjet Eye was the perfect culmination, with similarities to all of the movies we watched this summer.

This week is our last movie of Folk Horror Summer, The Devil’s Bath, and it really brought us full circle, touching on many of the themes of our previous movies.

This week we are covering Netflix’s 2017 movie the Ritual. We talk about its interesting monster and find out what monster we are at the end.

This week we are getting into the real horror side of Folk Horror Summer with Ari Aster’s Hereditary. With some amazing acting, exceptional directing and truly terrifying scares we found a lot to dig into with this one.

As we begin the second half of Folk Horror Summer, we dip our toes into The Virgin Spring, Ingmar Bergman’s Academy Award winning movie from 1960. Parallels and themes are emerging and we are beginning to see what makes Folk Horror, Folk Horror.

This week for Folk Horror Summer we are watching Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock. Nymphlike girls clad in white, disturbing disappearances and mysterious landscapes give this classic a dreamlike quality that we found bewitching.

This week we are watching Mario Bava’s directorial debut, Black Sunday. It’s very atmospheric, a little vampiric, and chock full of curses and mayhem.

This week we timed our third Folk Horror Summer movie to align with the astrological calendar so we watched Midsommar for Midsummer. It was a very interesting movie that really captured the essence of Folk Horror and we had a lot to discuss.