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It's Lit! — Storyline
A series of smart, funny video essays from PBS Digital Studios about their favorite books and why they love to read. Host Lindsay Ellis delves into topics like the evolution of YA, how science fiction mirrors our own anxieties, and why the book is sometimes just a _bit_ better than the movie.
Cast & Crew
- Starring: Lindsay Ellis
It's Lit! — Series Details
| First Air Date | 2018-06-04 |
| Seasons | 2 |
| Episodes | 28 |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Language | English |
| Network | PBS Digital Studios, YouTube |
| Status | Returning Series |
| Rating | 9/10 (1 votes) |
It's Lit! — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: When the Book is Better than the Movie (2018-06-04) — Which is better, the book or the movie? Explore the question with host Lindsay Ellis.
- E2: The Evolution of YA (2018-06-26) — Young Adult Fiction (YA) is dominating literature, and more young people are reading now than ever before. Lindsay Ellis explores how YA carved a place in publishing.
- E3: Why Sci Fi is a Mirror on Society (2018-07-13) — While science fiction is associated with Mars, robots, and cyberpunk, its origin story is shaped throughout several centuries. Check out the origin of science fiction with Lindsay
- E4: An Ode to the Romance Novel (2018-07-30) — Love it or hate it, the romance novel is the highest grossing literary genre. Its history is long and winding (like your favorite romance novel), and romance novels are full of tro
- E5: How Fantasy Reflects Our World (2018-08-21) — Fantasy novels are more than just hundreds of pages worth of swords and magic! Okay, there's some of that. But it's also a lens to what our society finds important to our pasts, ou
- E6: Why did they make me read this in High School? (2018-08-30) — What makes a book important? Why are some books required reading in high school, while others are lost to history?
- E7: Can You Judge a Book by Its Cover? (2018-11-21) — Despite the adage of not judging a book by its cover, there’s a lot of time, intent, and money spent creating memorable book covers. Get to know the story behind some of literature
- E8: Fear of Ghost…Writing! (2018-12-07) — You might being asking yourself– Why do ghostwriters even exist? Isn’t that cheating? Isn’t literature supposed to be the result of one person’s agonizing need to create? Aren’t b
- E9: Unreliable Narrators (2018-12-17) — Who is the most powerful character in fiction? Villains may doom the world, heroes may save it, but no one has more control over the plot than the narrator – expositing the who, wh
- E10: Food & Fiction: Memorable Meals in Literature (2019-01-11) — Food varies wildly from place to place and from culture to culture; since humans are such sensory creatures, using words to evoke the experience of eating is an excellent way to br
- E11: Death, Personified (2019-01-24) — Death as a character reveals how we process one of life’s greatest mysteries, and there’s a lot more breadth to how the grim reaper is depicted than you might think.
- E12: How Greek Mythology Inspires Us (2019-02-07) — Ancient Greek Mythology has worked its way into modern pop culture so deeply that it would be an almost Sisyphean task to compile every way it’s manifested!
- E13: The Beauty and Anguish of Les Misérables! (2019-04-18) — Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is one of history’s most famous novels and one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history. On this special episode of It’s Lit! we explore how
Season 2
- E1: The Case for Fan Fiction (2020-02-27) — For years writers of fan fiction were shamed, the butt of jokes, and even subject to copyright litigation. However, in the past few years, with the fan fiction writers of today bec
- E2: Afrofuturism From Books to Blockbusters (2020-03-19) — With the success of Black Panther, the term Afro-Futurism got pushed into the mainstream. But what is Afro-Futurism and what is its place in Black storytelling? In this episode we
- E3: How Fictional Pandemics Reflect the Real Thing (2020-04-29) — Although we are currently living through a pandemic that has disrupted our lives and will shape the course of humanity, pandemics have been around since the dawn of civilization, a
- E4: Why We Still Love Little Women, 150 Years Later (2020-05-27) — Before women were asking “Am I a Carrie or a Samantha?”, they were asking “Am I a Jo or an Amy?” Before there was Edward vs Jacob, there was Laurie vs Professor Bhaer. And over the
- E5: The Byronic Hero: Isn’t it Byronic? (2020-06-24) — Edward Cullen. Han Solo. Killmoklknger. Lestat. What do all these characters have in common besides being heartthrobs? They share a common ancestor: the Byronic Hero. Brooding, sen
- E6: The Constructed Languages of JRR Tolkien (2020-07-16) — Tolkien is widely regarded as the most influential author on the fantasy genre… period. But one of the less-discussed aspects of his work is the way Tolkien used constructed langua
- E7: War and Peace and Everything Else (2020-08-07) — According to Tolstoy himself, War and Peace was "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle." And in this day and age of publishing, where word coun
- E8: The It’s Lit! Musical Episode (2020-08-27) — Some say that theater is dead, and that’s probably because most playhouses the world over are closed at the moment owing to a worldwide pandemic. and yet the musical lives on… on D
- E9: The Fiery History of Banned Books (2020-09-21) — Since at least 213 BCE, book burnings have been a reaction to the power of the written word. When roasting paper in a giant circle went out of style (at least in the intellectual s
- E10: The (Stephen) King of Horror (2020-11-05) — Few writers have had the sheer staying power, popularity, and prolific output as Stephen King. From insatiably flesh-hungry clowns and sentient cars to telekinetic teenagers and my
- E11: Are Graphic Novels… Novels? (2020-11-25) — In the past few decades, literature has expanded to not only mean the “novel” but “graphic novels” as well. Today we are gonna break down how the graphic novel went from the comic
- E12: Dune, The Most Important Sci Fi Series Ever? (2020-12-17) — The planet is Arrakis. Also known as Dune. And y’all, it’s a mess. December of this year, we were supposed to see the arrival of director Denis Villeneuve’s interpretation of the 1
- E13: Anne Rice, The Queen of Literary Monsters (2021-01-06) — Forbes once called her “The Warren Buffett of vampires,” but American author, Anne Rice has established herself as the literary queen of monsters of ALL kinds over her four-and-a-h
- E14: Literary Icons You NEED to Know From the Harlem Renaissance (2021-02-26) — One of the most influential periods in Black American History post-slavery is the Harlem Renaissance, an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan,
- E15: How Do You Write a Bestseller? (2021-03-18)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does It's Lit! have? 2 season(s) with 28 episodes.
Where can I watch It's Lit!? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.
