Hey! I just found your blog when surfing the LIW tag and I had a question for you! I missed the boat on a lot of the Iconic LIWs (with the exception of Green Gable Fables) and I was wondering if you knew of any that are currently airing or are about to begin? Or am I completely too late and doomed to rewatch my old faves and be sad that I wasn't able to live through them when they started forever?
Hi! Always glad to welcome new people!
Well, the last episode of Public History is about to air, and I highly recommend watching the whole show. It’s an adaptation of David Copperfield, and there are two seasons. Other than that, I don’t think anything else has been airing for a while and probably won’t anytime soon due to the pandemic and all. HOWEVER, if you haven’t already, you should definitely go watch season one of Rational Creatures cause we’re going to get the rest of the story as soon as the creators can make it happen.
Maybe if we ever get a post-pandemic world (sorry for the pessimism), we’ll get some more LIWs. I have and Iliad adaptation I’ve been trying to make for... two years now? So if it ever actually happens I will talk about it here. Generally, though, I feel like this community needs new people and new ideas or it’s just going to die.
If you want to get involved in a new LIW thing, I’m gonna plug the podcast Jules of @quipmodestproductions and I recently started called It’s Super Important where we’re watching or rewatching LIWs and discussing them. We just finished Elinor and Marianne Take Barton and now we’re watching Jules and Monty, and after that we’re planning to dive into some of the more popular/iconic shows, so at least we’ll be rewatching them together and not alone! You can listen to that on Spotify or wherever else you get your podcasts.