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Two movie lovers discuss interesting films and the books they were adapted from. Or maybe they talk about great books and the movies that they spawned. Who can say? They're just that wacky.
Could there be a better way to countdown the end of a banner year for Hate Expectations (new equipment and four full episodes!) than to brin...
G'day, mates! For this episode, Hate Expectations brings you a ripper of a yarn from deep in the blowie ridden heart of the Australian outba...
We at Hate Expectations love when our friends bring episode ideas to us. Indeed, when our many time returning guest, Jane Hutchins, suggeste...
Yeah, yeah. It's April Fool's Day today...technically. And yes, we've pulled our japes in the past. You're right to be on your guard. But we...
For such a slender volume, Ursula K. Le Guin's world changing novel, The Lathe of Heaven (1971), had enough going on to splinter off two dif...
For just the second time in history the Hate Expectations team has raced into their local theater to take on a subject that is still new eno...
There's a fin in the water and fun in the air! From Jaws , Peter Benchley's incredibly popular 1974 novel, to Jaws , Steven Spielberg's even...
You know, they say books are the reason we have such beautiful movies. They also say that adaptation are the reason we have such beautiful e...
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! We're a little late getting this episode on the movie A Christmas Story (1983, d. Bob Clark) out to you....
The golden orb has streaked its path across the sky many times since Hate Expectations last palavered on a digital recording medium. We've b...
It's that special time of year again -- spring! We at Hate Expectations like to to put out an episode like this in early April to celebrate...
We're not high, we promise, though it may sound like it at times in this episode (maybe we should have been). That just the effect of Thomas...
At long last, we are delivering on our promise to rip into Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) and the two film adaptation...
Sweet swimmin' unicorns, what did Lizzy do? It was her birthday a few months ago, and for it she selected Elizabeth Goudge's book, The Littl...
It's April as I type this (rabbit, rabbit), and that can mean only one thing -- it's time for our Easter episode of Hate Expectations! Now w...
While the pandemic has left a lot of us feeling a bit unstuck in time, the effects of that don't seem to be as strong for us as they are for...
Finally! Hate Expectations, along with multiple time returning guest/friend Jane Hutchins, takes a journey deep into the human mind. Join us...
Halloween is our favorite time of year, here at Spielenwald, Hate Expectations's headquarters. There's no better time to dim the lights and...
We're back! It's a special birthday / rebirth episode, as Lizzy* and Nate track down Richard Stark's 1962 novel, The Hunter. Join us as we n...
We're back with a special quarantine episode! From the time we published The Princess Bride until today (11/19/19 to 04/01/20 -- over a thir...
At a break in the Sasquatch board gaming festival, Hate Expectations took advantage of their inconceivable friend, Dug Steen, being in town...
In a very special episode of Hate Expectations, Lizzy learns the hard way that rock music is Satan's gateway to your heart, while Nate find'...
Rich and Z return to the podcast, bringing a curious Homer pick with them. Joel and Ethan Coen's O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000) technicall...
As avowed rat lovers, it was inevitable that Lizzy and Nate would eventually discuss the beloved Newbery Medal winner, Mrs. Frisby and the R...
Three people, intentionally sequestered in the woods of the Pacific Northwest: Lizzy, Nate, and special returning guest Jane Hutchins. At fi...
Lizzy invokes one of her birthday wishes this year to whisk the Hate Expectations team off to a hidden corner of the south pacific, where a...
Representing a slight departure from reality, this episode of Hate Expectations finds Nate and Lizzy taking a long hard listen to The Who's...
It's Christmas time in the City of Angeles. And while decent listeners sleep the sleep of the righteous, the Hate Expectations crew prowls f...
Let's just say this up front -- the book, The Warriors (1965) by Sol Yurick, is a realistic take on New York city gangs and their activities...
In a very special episode of Hate Expectations, we reveal that one one of the two of us is actually an android. However, technology has come...
We're watching the detectives. Technically, we were reading Erich Kästner's Emil and the Detectives (Emil und die Detektive, 1929) and watch...
The "Empire Strikes Back" of Hate Expectations's Ready Player One episodes, this half contains ever more of cultural reference popouts and j...
You want pop culture references? We've got all the references you can handle right here, in this potentially timely episode of Hate Expectat...
In an earlier episode ( HE006 ), Hate Expectations discovered that time is an illusion, and lunchtime doubly so. That concept is taken to th...
Did you know that action classic Die Hard (1988, dir. John McTiernan) was based on a novel? We at Hate Expectations were overjoyed when we f...
In honor of this most wonderful time of the year (it's still Halloween somewhere, right?), the Hate Expectations team sinks its teeth into t...
Alan Turing is one of the principle reasons you're able to read this sentence on a computer right now. He is also a major reason the sentenc...
The player characters at Hate Expectations both lesbian the movie Scott Pilgrim vs the World. So it was an easy choice to make the book/movi...
Team Hate Expectations lives up to their name again, as Lizzy, Nate, and special guest, Jeff Emery, weigh in on Vision Quest, the Terry Davi...
The Hate Expectations regulars, Lizzy and Nate, along with out-of-this-world special guest Jonathan Franklin, dig into America's past's pote...
Come to Oceania, where palm trees sway in the tropical breeze and the sun gently carresses the sea. Our hero, a young British colonial offic...
Your humble narrators, Lizzy and Nate, are back with another Love Bite mini-sode. Well, honestly, it's more of a macro-mini in this case. (T...
I looked under chairs I looked under tables I'm tryin to find the key To fifty million fables They call me the seeker I been searchin low an...
Fulfilling our moral obligation as podcasters, Hate Expectations have finally entered the mini-episode game with a series we call Love Bites...
Betty MacDonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o. And on this farm she had some laughs, e-i-e-i-o. With a ha-ha here and a...well, you get the idea. Jo...
Could there be any other subject matter for our episode numbered HE007 than Ian Fleming's own James Bond? We'd give ourselves a license to s...
Get your towels ready and loosen up your Electronic Sub-Etha Signaling Devices, as you join Hate Expectations' Lizzy and Nate on a journey t...
"This episode's pretty cussin' good!" - Myself Keeping to the trend of loving the source material and the adaptation made from it, we, the e...
...Oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave play ball? In this episode Lizzy and...
By the clicking of our tongues, some discussion this way comes. No, we're not tackling the bard just yet, and we probably wouldn't start wit...