Snark Squad Pod

Ava Duvernay's film adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time, starring Storm Reid, was released this weekend. After chatting about the book and adaptations more broadly, this week we are joined by our wonderful friend Megan Toenyes to chat about what worked and didn't work in this movie.Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/itsmestefanchinFind us all on Twitter:Megan: twitter.com/megan10yesNicole: twitter.com/sweeneysaysMarines: twitter.com/mynameismarinestwitter.com/snark_squadwww.snarksquad.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we're joined by Sam of Thoughts on Tomes to talk about what makes adaptations work – and what makes them fall apart. We'll talk about some of our favorites and least favorites as well as what we're looking forward to seeing adapted.Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/itsmestefanchinFind us all on Twitter:Sam: twitter.com/thoughtsontomesNicole: twitter.com/sweeneysaysMarines: twitter.com/mynameismarinestwitter.com/snark_squadwww.snarksquad.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With the upcoming theatrical release of A Wrinkle in Time, we Snark Ladies decided it was about time to give the 1962 science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle a read. Since we're both coming to it for the first time as adults, we're joined by Chelsea of The Reading Outlaw, who has loved this book since childhood.Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/itsmestefanchinFind us all on Twitter:Chelsea: twitter.com/anoutlawlifeNicole: twitter.com/sweeneysaysMarines: twitter.com/mynameismarinestwitter.com/snark_squadwww.snarksquad.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we are talking about The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with our dear snarky friend, Sam, or as she's known around the internet, Democracy Diva. We talk about our favorite parts of Amy Sherman-Palladino's Amazon series, our love of Rachel Brosnahan, and our contempt for a certain character.Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/itsmestefanchinFind us all on Twitter:Sam: twitter.com/democracydivaNicole: twitter.com/sweeneysaysMarines: twitter.com/mynameismarinestwitter.com/snark_squadwww.snarksquad.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we are joined by Reel Bad Pod's Nick Jenkins so he can spend some time chatting about a movie that doesn't suck. We let him pick any movie he wanted and he chose Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 vampire thriller Near Dark. Find out why he chose it and what we thought of it on this week's episode.Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: www.twitter.com/pilocratesFind us all on Twitter:Nick: twitter.com/ngjenkinsNicole: twitter.com/sweeneysaysMarines: twitter.com/mynameismarinestwitter.com/snark_squadwww.snarksquad.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we're talking about ABC's summer series about psychics, vampires, angels, and more based on novels by Charlaine Harris. We're joined by our good friend Marie Ann Fernandez-Silva to talk about why this one...didn't quite work for us.Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: http://www.twitter.com/pilocratesFind us all on Twitter:Marie Ann: http://twitter.com/mfdezsilvaNicole: http://twitter.com/sweeneysaysMarines: http://twitter.com/mynameismarineshttp://twitter.com/snark_squadhttp://www.snarksquad.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we're talking about actress Krysten Ritter's debut novel, Bonfire. To join us in this discussion, we invited our friend Rincey, who in addition to having some of the best and most consistent content on BookTube, is a regular contributor on BookRiot and their podcast Read or Dead. We're real lucky to have her and we hope you enjoy us trying to decide how much we liked this book and how much we actually just like Jessica Jones.Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music: http://www.twitter.com/pilocratesFind us all on Twitter:Rincey: http://twitter.com/rinceyaNicole: http://twitter.com/sweeneysaysMarines: http://twitter.com/mynameismarineshttp://twitter.com/snark_squadhttp://www.snarksquad.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's VERY SPECIAL EPISODE, the Snark Ladies have a guest. Ceri Riley is a writer and editor for Sci Show and Crash Course Film as well as an editorial assistant for Monstress and all-around awesome human being. She's joining us today for a larger, topical media conversation, about CHOSEN ONE stories throughout media. We hope you have as much fun with this as we did.Fancy music, as always, by the wonderful Stefan Chin: http://www.twitter.com/pilocratesFind us on Twitter:http://www.twitter.com/cerileyhttp://www.twitter.com/snark_squadhttp://www.twitter.com/sweeneysayshttp://www.twitter.com/mynameismarinesand of course, on the blog: http://www.snarksquad.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Somehow the Snark Ladies managed to live 3 decades on this planet without ever viewing a Star Wars film. Recently that changed and today they attempt to discuss one. It goes...well, it goes.theme music by Stefan Chin: http://www.twitter.com/pilocratesFind us on Twitter:http://www.twitter.com/Snark_Squadhttp://www.twitter.com/SweeneySayshttp://www.twitter.com/mynameismarineshttp://www.snarksquad.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week the Snark Ladies are still trying to figure out how to podcast as we discuss Laura Ruby's Greek mythology inspired YA novel Bone Gap. Also we have a lot of feelings about the corn.theme music by Stefan Chin: http://www.twitter.com/pilocratesFind us on Twitter:http://www.twitter.com/Snark_Squadhttp://www.twitter.com/SweeneySayshttp://www.twitter.com/mynameismarineshttp://www.snarksquad.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marines Alvarez & Nicole Sweeney from the Snark Squad get together every week to chat about some piece of media they've both agreed to consume. In this, our inaugural episode we're discussing the popular CW teen drama Riverdale.Thanks to Stefan Chin for our theme music:http://www.twitter.com/pilocratesFind us around the internet:http://www.snarksquad.comhttp://www.twitter.com/snark_squadhttp://www.twitter.com/mynameismarineshttp://www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.