Review: Audio Maverick
This podcast lays out the history of a man, an industry, and an art form. It wraps it all up in smooth narration, awe-inspiring design, and a consumable story.
Audio Drama
Review: Hymns for the Road
As the listener discovers the new rules of this future America, layers of reflection are folded in across the perspective of each character. One is maybe more positive, another more cynical, more naive. The subject matter is timely, from overt to subtle...
Review: The Dex Legacy
sra, Varian, and Ren are elite of the elite, superhuman teenagers who have to wrangle with what their existence means to the world they inhabit. Season one is an incredible ramp-up to season two, which ends on a world-expanding cliffhanger for the listener.
Review: 36 Questions
I honestly think some of us could write a dissertation on this musical, but this website isn't for that.
Review: Build a Prince
This new audio drama brings us a familiar setup: a fictional European nation, royalty, and a nonroyal in a romantic storyline. It’s familiar, but better...
Review: The Sisters
The team here did a stunning job of transitioning the audio through time and space. You’re never quite left behind, but you’re never quite sure if the next scene is going to be in the same time.
Review: Academy
[This is] An audio drama from Wondery and At Will Media that’s quite good on the surface, but things about it sit uncomfortably as I listen. I don’t really think it’s wholly the fault of the podcast, but it’s a consideration I’m making as I write this review.
Review: Residents of Proserpina Park
My favorite part of this podcast design-wise is the theme song, which finds its way under dialogue across seasons. When it appears it almost is dropping us into the mood of a cozy video game, passing through Prosperpina Park with perhaps too much comfort.
Release Day Review: Re: Dracula
You will fear Dracula as played by Karim Kronfli.
Review: Wizard Seeking Wizard
It's silly creativity at full throttle, it's enjoying life, and it's a break from everything that's difficult in life for just a little bit.
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.
Review: Bridgewater
Spooky season approaches, thank the gods. With it comes a new fiction