Love Stinks! Month continues its march across the moors this week on We Drink & We Watch Things as we confront the year's most scandalous and polarizing adaptation: Emerald Fennell’s 2026 reimagining of Wuthering Heights. This isn’t your grandmother’s Brontë; it’s a hyper-stylized, anachronistic, and deeply provocative "bodice-ripper" that trades Victorian restraint for BDSM, heavy-metal corsetry, and a Charli XCX soundtrack. Pour yourself something dark and intoxicating - perhaps our cocktail take on Yearning - and join us as we discuss why this film has everyone from literary scholars to Barbie fans talking.

This week, we analyze the relationship between Margot Robbie’s fashion-doll Cathy and Jacob Elordi’s long-haired, seething Heathcliff. We examine Fennell’s decision to strip away the novel’s second genera ...