Seeing Read with Jim & Kelly
Welcome to SeeingRead! Where your hosts, Jim & Kelly, tackle the age old millennial question: was the book really better than the movie?! Enjoy being wrong!
Episodes
27 episodes
Dune Part 1
It's time to Spice up your life!Arrakis might look like a dead planet on the surface but it's swimming in sweet sweet stimulants. You don't need to have visions of the future to know we're talking about Dune. It's a space opera that ble...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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1:43:37
Murder on the Orient Express
⏱ Jump to the Book vs. Movie Review at 50:00A Swede, a Brit and a Belgian board a train. In case you're worried that this is going to turn into an off-color joke about stereotypes... you'd be half right! So tuck your knives before...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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1:52:52
Jurassic Park
Hey kids do you like dinosaurs? Science? Being gored by an extinct animal? Unchecked capitalism? The imminent destruction of our fragile ecosystem? Ugh boring, right? But what if I told you a man gets eaten by a TRex... on a toilet? Yeehaw cue ...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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1:44:48
Call Me By Your Name
'Tis the season to go fruit picking in Italy! If you don't have a translator handy, no worries, we found the subtitles on Amazon prime... but you'll still need to know the etymology for the word apricot. It's Call Me By Your Name.Jim an...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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2:43:23
Watchmen
Who watches the Watchmen? Us. Duh. Nixon is clutching the nuclear launch codes and we took the month to anatomically put ourselves back together for this special patreon birthday episode. How could this go wrong?Kelly crack...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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1:45:12
The Handmaid's Tale
Ladies, are modern day options crippling? Do you spend way too much time deciding between which primary color to wear and enjoy the thrill of voting against your basic needs? Well do we have a future for you!Kelly puts all her eggs in M...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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2:02:05
The Cuckoo's Calling
It's a bird! No, it's a plane! No, it's just a supermodel swan diving off the balcony. Some might call it foul play so it's up to a British sleuth(s)and these American readers to get to the bottom of it. But first, let's hit the pub and pick up...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:40:07
Fifty Shades of Grey
Is that love in the air? Gross, put my ball gag back in for some autoerotic asphyxiation. Welcome to Fifty Shades of Grey, a book and movie as vibrant as its slate color scheme. XXX content? More like Zzz's. EL James might not know...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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1:39:20
Atonement
Thirteen year old girls can really put the "me" in migraines. Been there, done that. But since it's January and the play is cancelled let's solve a mystery and accidentally doom a few lives while we're at it. It was the Gardener in the Library ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:36:15
The Color Purple
Dear God,What did postage stamps cost back in the 80s? 11 Oscar nominations? Danny Glover's dignity? One thing's for sure, after the film adaption, Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple demanded to be "returned to sender." Kelly...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:30:20
Killers of the Flower Moon
It's that time of year to gather with your family and gobble gobble up a nonfiction book to educate yourself on those who were robbed of theirs. This isn't Hallmark's version of the first Thanksgiving, but we're certainly gonna be serving some ...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:28:36
The Shining
Yo ho ho and a bottle of REDRUM, let's kick off Halloween at the Overlook Hotel! Our favorite bartender Lloyd will be slinging imaginary martinis and the blood in the elevator will be flowing. *Dog costume not included, so if you're a ghost Fur...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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1:41:59
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The kids are in school and the weather is turning cool, so how's about we jetset to Italy for a few cocktails and some stolen identity's? Don't worry, we'll be putting it on the Greenleaf tab. Some food for thought: Is Tom Ripley just you class...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:32:46
No Country for Old Men
Even hopelessness is bigger in Texas!Welcome to the Wild West of adaptions. The sheriff just quit, the author met the wrong side of a cattle stunner and the Coen brothers can be found at Trader Joe’s. Or so Jimmy and Kelly wish....
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:27:54
Ready Player One
Blow the dust off your Atari and out from between your ears because we’re about to simulate and stimulate! Who needs real friends when you have Jimmy and Kelly to break down Ready Player One for you? Kelly’s fighter, despite the gamer boy cring...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:35:51
Fingersmith/The Handmaiden
We’re ringing in Pride month with the bells from the Handmaiden! Fingers crossed you read this sapphic pastiche before listening, as it’s as twisty and unpredictable as the sex scenes in the film adaption. If this is your first time taking a di...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:51:23
The Hunger Games
May the month of May be ever in your favor! Odds are, if you’re a kid in a Seeing Read book/movie… you won’t make it out alive. That’s just fine in Panem where Jim and Kelly have found some high ground to stand on, weapons of choice in hand. Ca...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:27:27
Knock at the Cabin/Cabin at the End of the World
Is that your Sixth Sense tingling in anticipation or did you see the Signs coming a mile away? Special guest Evan Crean (Spoiler Piece Theatre https://podc...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:34:48
Angela's Ashes
There’s no better time to fake being Irish than Saint Patrick’s Day! So, grab some green beer and your 23AndMe results and get ready for an Angela’s Ashes discussion. Whether you’re a Galway Girl, Up the Kingdom of Kerry, or get pissed ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:32:57
The Notebook
If you’re a bird, I’m a bird! Unless you were a book first. Not that any of us will remember by the end of this. Jim and Kelly are ready to prove that there’s nothing sexier than a story about the tragedy of aging. Grab a marble no...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:31:47
Gone Girl
Happy Anniversary! Every marriage is hard work… can books and movies compromise or are they doomed to be like the Dunnes? Gillian Flynn served the world a twist to scare the boys for centuries to come while David Fincher delivered a thriller dr...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:32:07
Good Omens
After the holidays the Armageddon sounds heavenly right about now but why not indulge in some sinfully delightful chit chat? In this end of the year episode Jim and Kelly tackle academically biblical issues like can angels be gay if they are se...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:38:03
Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing can be stuffed up where the sun don’t shine, for all Jim and Kelly care. Delia Owen’s Marsh Girl was a hit with the book world and Reese Witherspoon brought it to the big screen, too bad both bored your hosts to tears. K...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:25:45