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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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  • Helios: A Relationship Across Wavelengths

    Helios: A Relationship Across Wavelengths

    “Helios” is the kind of story that never gets old. A tale as old as time, one might say. Its long-distance relationship trope combined with romance is the bread and butter of something like “Romeo and Juliet.” A play that has inspired a plethora of adaptations. “Helios” doesn’t offer much new in the stories that…

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  • Project Gnosis: Multicultural Cyber Fantasy

    Project Gnosis: Multicultural Cyber Fantasy

    The podcast “Project Gnosis” categorizes itself as a cyber punk and urban fantasy. While that’s an apt description, it only looks at the basic building blocks of any story: character, setting, and plot. The depth comes from what you bring with you. Without it, it comes off as mostly generic. This will be a review…

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  • The Black Veil Review: Victorian Era Fan Fiction?

    The Black Veil Review: Victorian Era Fan Fiction?

    It’s rare to have stories that use both sides of a writer’s toolkit simultaneously. However, especially today, “The Black Veil” from Simon Machin is about as near a universal story as is possible. Saying this story is both fast and slow, has serial and episodic storytelling, is realistic and fantastical, includes fan service and originality—sounds…

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  • Land’s End: A Shepherd’s Tale

    Land’s End: A Shepherd’s Tale

    A five-part thriller taking place in a rural setting and sharing a similar ominous tone to “From Within: A Tale of the Macabre.” While one uses epistolary prose as its primary mode of storytelling, “Land’s End: A Shepherd’s Tale” is more cinematic in its execution; an unexpected and interesting audio aesthetic for a story with…

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  • The Hexings Podcast: Fictional “Hysterical” Witchcraft

    The Hexings Podcast: Fictional “Hysterical” Witchcraft

    While not a sequel to “Untold Virginia,” the fiction podcast “The Hexings,” takes the idea of an audio drama dressed up as dramatized non-fiction and run with it until their path’s split. It’s a spiritual successor with a separate creative team behind each podcast probably having no idea of the other’s existence. Even when the…

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