This week we played the video game Regency Love from Tea for Three studios. It is an interactive novel/dating sim for iOS that has been round since 2013. We had a lot of fun playing it and speculating on all the storylines we missed.--- Sup
This week we do our final wrap up on the summer of obscurity. We give our thoughts on this summer and all that we covered. Then we take a quiz to find out what kind of obscure thing we are.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotif
This week we have our last movie in the summer of obscurity, although it may not be all that obscure. It’s got Tim Curry doing an un expected accent, Laura Linney shooting missiles from the sky, and one very cute talking gorilla.--- Support
We are nearing the end of summer of obscurity and we couldn’t possibly wrap it up without reviewing David Lynch’s Dumbland. The name says it all, but can we find something intelligent to say about it. We will let you be the judge of that.---
This week we are re-releasing this special request episode in preparation for next week. This is a collection of comic strips made by David Lynch over 9+ years. We do our best to thoroughly cover this small collection. --- Support this podc
This week we are reaching new heights of obscurity with the 1971 BBC adaptation of Sense and Sensibitily, infamously Maya’s least favorite adaptation. Can we find things to like about it this watch?--- Support this podcast: https://podcaste
This week we have a commentary for an obscure 80’s horror movie written by Mark Frost. It’s the kind of movie you really need a friend to watch with, if you want to make it fun, so why not watch it with us?--- Support this podcast: https://
This week we are catching up on our summer of obscurity, talking 80’s music, and the benefits of drones.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mannersandmadness/support
This week we are reaching back to 1985 and one of our favorite 80’s fantasy movies and a Tim Curry movie to boot, Legend. It’s got all the tropes, none of the pants, and it’s thoroughly enjoyable.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters
This week we wrap up the BBC Persuasion from 1971. We love this Anne and have mixed reactions to the other characters but overall we are really enjoying these older adaptations.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh
This week we are reaching back to 1970’s BBC yet again, this time to experience their adaptation of Persuasion. We watched the first half of this very 70’s adaptation that has a lot going for it, and maybe a few things working against it.---
This week we finish up the short lived comedy that followed Twin Peaks, On the Air. It was a wild ride and didn’t follow the conventional rules of comedy. Was it successful? Maybe not entirely but we were glad to get to watch it regardless.--
This week we are getting obscure and covering On the Air, the show David Lynch and Mark Frost created right after Twin Peaks. Only 2 -3 episodes were ever aired but we are covering the full 7 episodes that were recorded. It’s a sitcom, it’s str
This week we wrap up Emma 1972, and we really liked this one. Maybe our favorite Knightly, a great Emma, and surprisingly funny.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mannersandmadness/support
This week we are starting yet another Emma adaptation. This is a BBC adaptation from 1972. Just because something is older doesn’t make it worse and we have a lot to praise from the first three episodes.--- Support this podcast: https://pod
This week we are truly checking-in and reviewing everything we’ve covered recently as well as talking about all our latest interests and obsessions. We end the episode with a rousing game of would you rather.--- Support this podcast: https:
This week we have our final movie in this section, Lucky. It’s another acting role from David Lynch but it’s really Harry Dean Stanton who carries the movie is a lovely sendoff to a great actor.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.s
This week we are watching Miss Austen Regrets, another biopic, this time covering the end of Jane Austen’s life.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mannersandmadness/support
This week we try to learn more about Jane Austen herself and watch the first of two biopics we have on the docket, Becoming Jane. Focusing on her early life and heavily romance oriented, we found the movie lacking overall.--- Support this p
This week we were running behind and so decided to forgo our scheduled recording for a quick check-in. We catch-up on what we have been up to and take a breather before we come back next week with a regular episode.--- Support this podcast:
This week we are watching a movie that features David Lynch as an actor. The Fablemans is by Steven Spielberg and is about his life. David Lynch makes a cameo at the end as legendary director John Ford and is delightfully iconic.--- Support
This week we are covering our second Whit Stillman movie, his first, Metropolitan. This movie is listed as a modern adaptation of Mansfield Park even though it really isn’t. It does however talk about the novel and works with some of its themes
This week we finally follow through on our threats and add Tim Curry to the Manners & Madness line-up. We begin with one of his funniest the farcical cult classic Clue.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/manner
This week we finish our coverage of Lost Highway. We spend a good amount of the episode speculating on what it all means, how much is real and where it fits in with the recurring themes of David Lynch’s work.--- Support this podcast: https:
This week we are on to one of David Lynch’s seminal movies, Lost Highway. A movie about memory and murder, where every character and even the film itself seems to be divided and doubled at the same time. We get into the spirit by dividing our c