LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 276
So if you’ve been poking around this blog the past few weeks, you already know that we’re just about to dive into Plugged In’s first-ever Screen Fast. It begins tomorrow and runs through March 14. And although some of us have already done our screen fasts at Plugged In (because, y’know, movies still need to get reviewed), it looks like plenty of you are taking the plunge with us.
Today, we’ll delve into not just the screen part of the screen fast, but the fast part. What is a fast? What does fasting achieve? And why in the world would we fast at all? Adam Holz and Bret Eckelberry will help us walk through those concepts and much, much more on today’s episode of The Plugged In Show.
And once we get you all fired up to set aside your screens for a week (well, as much as work and school will allow, anyway), sign up for Screen Fast 2025. If you do, you’ll get access to Plugged In’s very own Screen Fast survival guide, with activity suggestions for every day of the week!
And then we’ll turn our attention to Wicked. Not the record-setting Broadway show. Not the Oscar-winning, blockbuster movie. Rather (at the suggestion of a Plugged In reader) we’ll take a look at the book upon which both were based: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.
While the movie might be rated PG, Gregory Maguire’s novel is … less so, according to Bob Hoose, who reviewed the book. And that just might be a problem for teen fans of the movie who want to get a little more Elphaba into their lives. Turns out, this book brings a whole lot more wicked behavior to the tale.
And, as always, tell us what you think. Are you going to participate in the fast? Have you stepped away from screens for a time before, and if so, what was it like? Let us know on Facebook and Instagram. Send us an email at [email protected]. Leave us a voice message at The Plugged In Show homepage. Or just comment down below.
Don’t forget to sign up for our Screen Fast, too. And be sure to partake in our non-screen Plugged In Show next week, when we dive into Prime Video’s new biblically based series, House of David.
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“we’ll take a look at the book upon which both were based: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.”
BOY HOWDY
Trigger warning/content warning: Pretty much every single thing you can think of, Including That One, and most of the other content warnings also involve children
Also a very sesquipedalian vocabulary—I had to keep a dictionary nearby, and I read that book when I was finishing up college