What if Pride & Prejudice was set at an American film school? What if our Elizabeth Bennet is a student who recruits her Darcy to star in her reality TV show where students confront their crushes on camera? What could possibly go wrong?

Melinda and Stefanie discuss the dramatic twists and turns of reality TV, men dancing shirtless on social media, and the definition of ‘cuffing’ in The Cuffing Game by Lyla Lee.

Links & Mentions

If you're still confused about the definition of 'cuffing' you can read more [https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/cuffing-season-meaning-origin].

If the world of K dramas is new for you, read up on the tropes in this helpful summary [https://collider.com/k-drama-defining-characteristics/].

And if you were as confused as Melinda was by the meme 'oh my god they were roommates' you can read more here [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oh-my-god-they-were-roommates].

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always, you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed [https://www.instagram.com/janeaustenremixed] and you can contact us via janeaustenremixed@gmail.com. 

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be reading The Shadow of Anubis by Adele Dixon. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible. 

The Cuffing Game by Lyla Lee

What if Pride & Prejudice was about a hopelessly romantic American named Jane who dropped her life savings on a trip to England to take part in a personalised fantasy romance at a Regency themed live-in experience? What if the woman who owns the venue it is inexplicably horrible to her the whole time? What if she accidentally falls in love with her own Mr Darcy for real?

Stefanie and Melinda discuss the absolutely stacked cast of Jane Austen adaptation alumni who feature in the film, the obsession in early aughts films with depicting single women in their 30s as desperate losers, and the intense flashbacks this movie gave them to particular (and particularly unhinged) adaptation that featured in Season 1, in Austenland directed by Jerusha Hess. 

Links & Mentions

Want to get lost in a rabbit hole that Stefanie cut from the episode? Read up on Regency House Party, the insane reality dataing show that forced signle people to live an incredibly accurate Regency lifestyle while trying to find love [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regency_House_Party]... think insanly accurate, like washing your hair with egg whites, and being forced to sleep in a broom closet-sized room off the side of your chaperone's rooms because the producers designated you a lowly "lady's companion", level of accurate. 

The Indiewire faux pas is linked here [https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/sundance-2013-stephenie-meyer-produced-austenland-booked-by-spwa-and-spc-41827/]. 

The Guardian review can be found in full here [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/26/austenland-review].

MaryAnn Johanson's review can be found here [https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2013/09/austenland-review-bomb-bombasticity.html].

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed [https://www.instagram.com/janeaustenremixed] and you can contact us via janeaustenremixed@gmail.com. 

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be watching The Cuffing Game by Lyla Lee. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible. 

Austenland by Jerusha Hess

What if Caroline Bingley was the main character and we learn what happens to her after Pride & Prejudice? What if she ends up embroiled in a murder case alongside Georgiana Darcy in London? What if she discovers she is pretty good at solving crimes?

Melinda and Stefanie discuss murder mysteries, characters changing for sequels and flying wombs in Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective by Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar.

Links & Mentions

You can read more about the East India Company at Britannica.com [https://www.britannica.com/topic/East-India-Company]. This Guardian article from 2015 also explains the company's unpleasant history [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders].

And if you want to learn more about the White Saviour trope as it appears in literature and film, you can do so here. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior]

You can also read more about Devoney Looser's book Wild for Austen [https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250361332/wildforausten/] and where to buy it here.

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words.

As always you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed [https://www.instagram.com/janeaustenremixed]and you can contact us via janeaustenremixed@gmail.com.

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be reading The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible. 

Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective by Kelly Gardiner & Sharmini Kumar

What if the England of Pride & Prejudice was beset by a strange plague that brought the dead back to life to slaughter the living? What if young ladies were taught proficiency in sword play rather than playing the piano? And what if Elizabeth was a heartless, revenge driven, borderline sociopath?

Stefanie and Melinda discuss what happens when revisiting one of your favourite adaptations goes awry, and the painful hilarity of watching Hollywood go completely rogue on the film adaptation of a (sort of) classic novel in Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith and its companion film, directed by Burr Steers. 

Links & Mentions

The author’s interview in The Times can be read in full here [https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/asia-travel/china/pride-and-prejudice-as-zombie-pulp-fiction-zjgwxs6llfp#:~:text=Yes%2C%20the%20LA%2Dbased%20television%20writer,placid%20villages%20of%2019th%2Dcentury%20England.]. Additional interviews used as sources can be found here on TIme.com [https://time.com/archive/6909850/pride-and-prejudice-now-with-zombies/], here on Entertainment Weekly [https://ew.com/article/2009/02/21/monster-mash-up/], and the author discusses reading everything Austen ever wrote here [https://directconversations.com/2016/02/05/interview-seth-grahame-smith-talks-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/#google_vignette].

More information on Isolationist Japan can be found here [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku#:~:text=It%20is%20conventionally%20regarded%20that,to%20peace%20in%20the%20archipelago].

A brief history of ninja can be found here [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja] - NB Stefanie uses the modern prefecture names only in this episode. 

Emma Coffin’s fantastic look at Orientalism  ("Ninjas – Invisible in More Ways than One: Orientalism in Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies [https://thegardenstatuary.com/archives/1998#:~:text=While%20the%20zombie%20plague%20portions,for%20the%20white%20British%20characters]") can be found here.

The more in-depth examination of costuming in PPZ that Stefanie references is here [https://plaidpetticoats.blogspot.com/2016/02/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-review.html]. While you can access the interview with the 2005 film costume designer Jacqueline Durran here on The Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20090123122840/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3649828/How-I-undressed-Mr-Darcy.html], where she mentions that Joe Wright was desperate for any excuse to shift the temporal setting of the novel to avoid "unflattering empire waistlines".

You can read more about the religious piety aspect of PPZ, that we didn't have time to get into in the episode, here in the fabulously named “Piety and Pigs Brains” essay [https://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/volume-38-no-3/taylor/#:~:text=Wickham%20presents%20Lady%20Catherine%20with,might%20live%20together%20in%20England] on the JASNA website.

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always, you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed [https://www.instagram.com/janeaustenremixed]and you can contact us via janeaustenremixed@gmail.com. 

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be reading Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective by Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible. 

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith

What if the main character of Pride & Prejudice was Georgiana Darcy? What if she attends a boarding school in upstate New York? What if she’s trying to rebuild her reputation and live up to the standard of her perfect older brother?

Melinda and Stefanie discuss our beloved story from a different perspective, realistic mental health journeys and Hollywood teen movies tropes in Accomplished: A Georgie Darcy Story by Amanda Quain.

Links & Mentions

Need some help with the marching band terms in this episode? Here's a helpful list of the most common terms [https://warhillband.com/glossary-of-marching-band-terms/].

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed [https://www.instagram.com/janeaustenremixed] and you can contact us via janeaustenremixed@gmail.com. 

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be reading Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith and watching the companion movie of the same name, directed by Burr Steers. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible. 

Accomplished: A Georgie Darcy Story by Amanda Quain

What if your hosts were also Marvel Cinematic Universe nerds? What if they got a reader question in the mailbox episode asking them to cast MCU characters as Pride & Prejudice characters? What if what was meant to be a five-minute segment turned into a 50-minute tangent and they decided to turn it into a bonus episode? 

Stefanie and Melinda spend way too much time discussing the nuances of MCU characters and how they fit into the beloved world of Pride & Prejudice.

Links & Mentions

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always, you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed [https://www.instagram.com/janeaustenremixed] and you can contact us via janeaustenremixed@gmail.com. 



We'll be back with Season Two's premiere episode on 4 May 2026, with Accomplished: A Georgie Darcy Novel by Amanda Quain. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible.

BONUS: The Marvel Minisode

What if two friends started a podcast about Pride & Prejudice adaptations? What if Season 1 is finished and they have more things to say? What if they have your questions to answer?

Melinda and Stefanie reflect on the first 12 adaptations discussed on Jane Austen Remixed and share their favourite moments, behind the scenes thoughts, and answer your questions.

Links & Mentions

If you would like to learn more about Napeleon's role in Persuasion, read this helpful article from Jane Austen's House about war in all her works [https://janeaustens.house/jane-austen/essays-on-austen/jane-austen-wartime-writer/]. 

The adaptation set in historical Korea is called Behind Five Willows written by June Hur. You can follow the author on Instagram to stay up-to-date about the release [https://www.instagram.com/junehwrites/?hl=en].

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words.

As always you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed [https://www.instagram.com/janeaustenremixed] and you can contact us via janeaustenremixed@gmail.com.

We'll be on break for a little while, but we'll let you know when we'll be back. Keep an eye out for a bonus episode - where we cast members of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as characters in Pride & Prejudice - while we're on hiatus. Happy reading!

The Listener Mailbox Episode (& Season 1 Reflections)

What if Pride & Prejudice was a story about the "confused ramblings of a pissed 30-something"? What if there were two Mr Wickhams and Mr Darcy was a renowned human rights lawyer? Stefanie and Melinda discuss the cultural fixation on women's bodies from a time when society was obsessed with women dying alone and being found half eaten by an Alsatian through the lens of Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding and the companion movie of the same name, directed by Sharon Maguire.

Links & Mentions

The original meaning of the term "slut" can be found here [https://www.etymonline.com/word/slut].  

If the Bridget Jones musical has been added to your mental list of Roman Empires as well, here is the 2014 update on why Lily Allen left the project [https://www.whatsonstage.com/news/lily-allen-dropped-from-bridget-jones-musical_35228/], and here is a 2024 (!) update on the musical that we found after we recorded [https://www.whatsonstage.com/news/lily-allen-comments-on-bridget-jones-musical_1567163/]. 

Learn about the "real" Mark Darcy, human rights lawyer, here [https://www.theguardian.com/film/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,471825,00.html].  

You can read Sophie Vershbow's article Did Bridget Jones Make Us Hate Our Bodies? here on Vogue [https://www.vogue.com/article/bridget-jones-weight-obsession]. While Alex Light's article Growing Up On Bridget Jones Damaged My Body Confidence is here on Grazia UK [https://graziadaily.co.uk/life/in-the-news/bridget-jones-never-overweight-diet-culture/].

If you want to listen to a very entertaining if a little demoralising podcast episode on why the BMI is garbage, you can find it over on pod fave Maintenance Phase's feed here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-body-mass-index/id1535408667?i=1000530850955].  

If you want to watch Bridget interview Colin Firth, you'll find it here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjyoWj1GICo].

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed [https://www.instagram.com/janeaustenremixed] and you can contact us via janeaustenremixed@gmail.com.

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be openign our DMs and answering listener questions, as well as reflecting on the good, the great and the unhinged moments of season one. 

Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding

What if Pride and Prejudice was set in modern day America? What if Will Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet surf and fall in love in the Hamptons? What if Jane Bennet reads romantasy novels and Kitty went to business school? Melinda and Stefanie discuss a romance novel version of Pride & Prejudice that includes all five Bennet sisters and doesn’t turn Fitzwilliam Darcy into a walking red flag in Elizabeth of East Hampton by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding.

Links & Mentions

You can follow the authors on Instagram @audrey.and.emily [https://www.instagram.com/audrey.and.emily/]. 

And if you want spoilers, you can click here to find out the title of Book 3 in for the Love of Austen and where to buy it. [https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Anne-of-Avenue-A/Audrey-Bellezza/For-the-Love-of-Austen/9781668097656] We've read it: it's fabulous.

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed [https://www.instagram.com/janeaustenremixed] and you can contact us via janeaustenremixed@gmail.com.

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be reading and watching is Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding and watching the companion movie of the same name, directed by Sharon Maguire. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible. 

Elizabeth of East Hampton by Audrey Bellezza & Emily Harding

What if Pride & Prejudice wasn't a bucolic tale of classic romance? What if Netherfield Park hid a dark and menacing secret? And what if Caroline Bingley had a sinister motive for inviting Jane to visit? Stefanie and Melinda discuss Lovecraftian horror as a genre, the prospect of Pride & Prejudice being a much, much shorter novel, and why on earth Elizabeth Bennet would ever have called on the Bingleys without a formal introduction, in Love, Lovecraft & Mr Darcy by Violet King.

Links & Mentions

Read more about H.P. Lovecraft here [https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page].

Learn more about what exactly an Eldritch Being is [https://rulesofgruesome.com/what-are-eldritch-beings/] here 

Aja Romano's excellent article How HBO’s Lovecraft Country illuminates H.P. Lovecraft’s history of literary racism for Vox is linked here [https://www.vox.com/culture/21363945/hp-lovecraft-racism-examples-explained-what-is-lovecraftian-weird-fiction] 

Read the Reuters investigation into the tidal wave of AI books on Amazon is here [https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-launches-boom-ai-written-e-books-amazon-2023-02-21/] and a fuller investigation of how fake books have always been a scam is here on Robert Evans' substack, Shatterzone [https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/ai-is-coming-for-your-children].   

If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. 

As always you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed [https://www.instagram.com/janeaustenremixed] and you can contact us via janeaustenremixed@gmail.com.

Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be reading and watching is Elizabeth of East Hampton by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible. 

Love, Lovecraft & Mr Darcy by Violet King

Join your hosts Stefanie and Melinda as they dive deep into the world of adaptations of Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride & Prejudice, where some are fabulous, some aren’t their cup of tea, and some are delightfully unhinged. It's Austen, but not as you know it.

(Please note that while Apple has given the pod an "explicit" rating, the very few swears are bleeped and the hosts do not discuss any spicy scenes outside of noting their presence in the storyline. To get to know what the pod is and isn't about, give the Welcome episode a listen!)

Melinda

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