Indie Publishing, Podcasts and The Bright Sessions: Season Two
Fiction podcasting may borrow story elements from popular TV and movies, but the business model couldn’t be more different. There are exceptions, but no one can tell you, you can’t have a podcast. It’s what makes indie publishing so similar to podcasting.
While the business side may be similar. There’s not really a traditional publishing model in podcasting. The closest is maybe Audible Originals, but they were still looking at acquisitions last year at Podcast Movement 2018. Unlike the inaccurately named Kindle Gold Rush of the early 2010s, there’s not a clear marker for when podcasts took off. Some have been around before the dawn of the decade, but podcast fiction took off long after podiobooks (podcast audiobooks) were a thing authors did to promote their works. It still is, but only a few podcasters remain active.
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Complex Characters, Simple Motivations
As alluded to in the previous review of Unplaced, the second season of the Bright Sessions bites off perhaps more than it can chew. The finale leaves a sense of dread. Intentional and foreshadowed well enough, but out of place for something like this. The psychology sessions aspect sort of died out to make room for a more traditional speculative fiction story. Secret government facilities and a heist without any wit or charm. Again, that was most likely intentional on some level by creator Lauren Shippen — but while it does more, yes, it needs something else to round out the rough spots.
4.5/5 Stars
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