Seeing Read with Jim & Kelly

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We have such sights to show you! Fresh off the torture rack- and burning up with sex appeal that only a hairless demon scorpion monster can bring- it's time to dig your pins into a VHS classic.

Kelly joins Julia at the bar to pick up her latest kills, I mean reads. Finally a horror novella that cuts to the point- though maybe the name doesn't quite pull it off...

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 blends a trippy college bender with the fun of LARP'ing. Thankfully in neither book or movie you won't smell a sietch.

Kelly struggled with her stil...

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A 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 customs confiscates them and join us on the soul train for a special birthday Patreon episode: Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.

Kelly hops on board the wrong MTA lin...

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 the theme song, pack your lunch boxes with Dino DNA and hop in the helicopter, we're heading to Jurassic Park!

Kelly wasn't confident the book would be worth the price of a...

'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 and Kelly celebrate Pride by finding a new letter on the LGBT spectrum to join them. Guest Peter Turo joins a very queer episode that celebrates fluidity and solipsism. Ye...

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 cracks open her first comic book to find a fun way to play philosopher. Is this really about  masked avengers or is it just Kierkegaard in tights? We don't think, therefore we aren't sure...

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 Margaret Atwood's basket. This Canadian author wrote a long form poem that chills, maybe not thrills, but certainly instills a fear for our future autonomy. We humans need love, touch, ...

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 a special guest to help us solve the murder of the teleplay for the Cormoran Strike Series.

Kelly has found a friend to help defend JKRowling's pseudon...

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 what BDSM is or how a 21 year old woman talks, but that didn't stop her from riff'ing off Twilight. Kelly could defend her...but in the words of the author "Holy Cow, it&apo...

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 with the Vase! The Chocolate War Profiteer in the garden! No, it's not Clue, it's the saddest love story that never was.

Ian McEwan rewrote a youn...

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 is sending love letters to Alice Walker's 1982 Pulitzer Prize winning book. It might be a little more gritty, but it's a heavenly trip to finding your ...

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 facts along with that cholesterol. Can a Scorsese adaption bring heart to a broken hearth or does it take a true crime book to make you grateful for the FBI? It's tim...

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 Furry... come prepared.

In a Samhain swap up, Jimmy shines first. Since we've all seen this classic horror flick, he's must defend the iconic Kubrick film. Steeped ...

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 classic American who spent too much time studying abroad or is he a dyed in the wool sociopath? Honestly... what's the difference?  Book or movie... he comes off as a real...

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.

Kelly may be wearing a wishful tin hat surrounding the conspiracy theories surrounding Taylor Swifts sexuality… but she is decidedly not a Nihilist. Can she defend good writing and profou...

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 cringe, is Ernest Cline. Jimmy powers up Steven Spielberg. Sure, Ernest Cline may be the 80s Peter Pan, but the man knows how to joust… and sell an unpublished manuscript. But is that enough to st...

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 dip into Sarah Waters, welcome to your first Victorian-era lesbian Dickensian experience! Stuffed with handsome women reading very niche book genres (Maude’s Goodreads must be lit) and a friend...

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. Can the Hunger Games book take on its blockbuster movie twin in hand to hand combat? Can both book and movie win the games if they’re from the same District? Not for all the money in the Capito...

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://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spoilerpiece-theatre/id900473184) joins Kelly and Jim in the breakdown and take away of M Night Shyamalan’s latest attempt at maintaining his legacy. Can he rise above his need to force feed his audience news clips or is that just what comes fr...