Watch Along: Persuasion (2022)

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

In which David and Sean make Heidi endure the slings and arrows of the new adaptation of her favorite Jane Austen novel—all for your entertainment. Along the way they discuss the way the filmmakers seem not to have read the book but also have a good eye for wardrobe (but again, even there, seem unfamiliar with when the book and ostensibly the movie itself, takes place). It’s a whole thing. Anyway, feel free to hit play on the movie at the same time we do, or to watch and then listen to our reactions later, or to just ignore the whole thing altogether and go on with your life happier in the knowledge that, well, you’re less broken inside than people who watched it.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm David Kern.
0:06.9	I'm Heidi White.
0:09.2	I wasn't ready for us.
0:10.1	I'm I'm John Thompson.
0:11.7	You nailed it.
0:13.2	And I apologize that my audio is terrible.
0:15.1	I feel like that is how this whole thing is going to go tonight.
0:18.1	Despite the fact that my audio is terrible, we are going to be here for the next
0:21.1	couple of hours because we are about to hate watch Persuasion. We're going to watch the entire
0:27.0	new Netflix adaptation of Persuasion and we're just going to watch it from the beginning and you
0:33.5	get to join us for as long or as little as you want to. And we're going to, we're going to, we're going to see where this takes us.
0:40.5	And, uh, it's going to be, it's going to be rough because we all are in, we all feel like
0:45.9	it's going to be terrible.
0:46.6	So how are you feeling about this?
0:48.7	I'm nervous.
0:50.0	I'm nervous.
0:51.2	I have fear because it, bad adaptations tend to like taint the book for me.
0:56.9	But I think.
0:57.7	Bad adaptations.
0:59.0	Yeah, yeah, I got it.
1:01.0	It's great.
1:01.7	Um, but I feel like this one's going to be so dreadful that I won't even connect it
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