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  • The Harbingers Review

    The Harbingers Review

    Going into this series — a Tribeca official selection from 2025 — after finding it on LinkedIn, I expected something like “The Prestige” book or movie. What I got was something far more nuanced, emotional and not a simple revenge story. Also no dead women. With season two starting in a couple of days, it’s…

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    Bond Beyond Blood: A Supernatural WWII Murder Mystery

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    Tom Slick Fiction Podcast: Cryptozoologist Indiana Jones

  • The Burbs: Stephen King Meets the Exorcist

    The first season of the suspense/horror show “The Burbs” has few moments of actual horror in the vein of a Stephen King homage. It relies heavily on loud-sound jump scares to get the listener’s heart racing. Often times the reaction of the characters is scarier than the actual catalyst itself. From the start, the mixing…

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  • Magic Rocks from (Muppet) Hell

    A smorgasbord of miss or cringe humor where the creators seem self-aware at the ridiculousness that is “Magic Rocks from Hell.” If you’re a fan of reference or old pop culture humor, you may like this. Those looking for a more nuanced comedy with a story, might want to stick with a less bombastic story.…

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  • The Boys Comic Omnibus (Graphic Audio)

    Back in the Spring of 2023, I bought and listened to Graphic Audio’s adaptation* of “The Boys” comic series in preparation for the return of the Amazon Original’s return for season four. I hadn’t even touched the show aside from maybe one or two YouTube videos where they described it as a dark satire on…

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  • The Story of a Chicago Theatre in the Dark

    Originally published on the UI7 Live website in Spring 2023. Theatre in the Dark started—as the name suggests—in a theater, in the dark. Their first audio play “Three Stories Up” premiered in Fall 2019. They performed the play live in person, but in “pitch black conditions.” Once the pandemic hit, they switched their strategy to…

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  • Fallout New Vegas in Space: Additional Postage Required

    The first season of this audio drama from the Moonshot Podcast Network at 10 episodes long has an inviting structure, but is perhaps too focused on the larger picture. This makes micro-level of the podcast feel not as polished as the macro-level. “Additional Postage Required” is what it might look like if “Fallout: New Vegas”…

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