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Review: Admissible: Shreds of Evidence

Review: Admissible: Shreds of Evidence

This podcast sounds great, which is important to mention. However, this team being so structurally careful is critical to telling this story. They’re making it easy to follow when by all means it should be difficult to follow.

Review: The Turning

Review: The Turning

Sometimes it’s not about destroying the whole of what’s wrong, it’s about recognizing the parts of something that are harmful, to make the whole better.

The Monthly Magpie: March 2023

The Monthly Magpie: March 2023

Every February you feel the rush of post-holiday bliss, of finally feeling like you're reaching for the first tendrils of spring, sunlight, and bouncing forward.

Review: Significant Others

Review: Significant Others

It is simple in its production style, but well-rounded in the depth of its quality. It feels like a classic, timeless piece of work that will linger confident in its distance from others, because of its confidence in itself.

Release Day Review: Trailer Park: The Podcast Trailer Podcast

Release Day Review

Release Day Review: Trailer Park: The Podcast Trailer Podcast

Trailer Park brings us crisp and clear audio, fun quips, and a laser focus in under fifteen minutes.

The Monthly Magpie: February 2023

The shortest month of the year may be here, but I feel

Release Day Review: Intra-Quest

Release Day Review

Release Day Review: Intra-Quest

The episode moves a quick 40 minutes, and it's not so easy to fall into it just to follow and feel the world out. There are so many hints that podcast gives you to maybe tuck away for later, I wanted to have a notebook with my second listen-through.

Review: Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature

Review: Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature

You are quickly swept up in the drama of this mysterious society that only this professor and a few of his colleagues seem to know anything about.

Release Day Review: Digital Folklore

Release Day Review

Release Day Review: Digital Folklore

This is a treat of a podcast in overall style and storytelling, but also with the kindness that this subject matter is being handled. It’s not as easy as we want to think. Folklore is a reflection of who we are as humans, and the presence of the internet in these stories doesn’t change that fact.

Review: Nobody Should Believe Me

Review: Nobody Should Believe Me

It’s a hard one to strike, but the team on this podcast does hit a careful balance between personal catharsis and reporting. The unique position of the host gives it a power that a purely clinical podcast would not be able to have.

The Monthly Magpie: January 2023

The Monthly Magpie: January 2023

Happy 2023 Everyone! We are “skipping” December 2022. It did not happen.

Release Day Review Revisited: Atlantis Mini-Series

Release Day Review Revisited: Atlantis Mini-Series

Liv’s style of talking like you could know what she’s talking about, but she won’t judge you if you don’t. There’s a fun respect for the audience that I think this podcast overall nails as a show about things that aren’t always easy to parse through, mythology or this small foray into philosophy.