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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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  • DC High Volume: Batman Year One

  • A Dual Review: Comic Sans Podcast and Audio Dramatization

  • Space Opera with an Edge: Marsfall Season One

    Marsfall: The Final Frontier To say the first season of Marsfall does everything Star Trek: Into Darkness gets wrong is perhaps overly simplistic, but not entirely inaccurate. Both the movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the infamous character Khan from Star Trek canon and Marsfall take space opera to their dark extremes. Whereas Into Darkness goes…

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  • Before Caesar: The Tragedy of Gaius Gracchus

    Ancient Rome Before the Dark Times. Before the Empire. Before Julius Caesar An episode of Aural Traditions—an anthology podcast with similarities to Anansi Storytime, at least judging by its cover art. The Tragedy of Gaius Gracchus is A story based on the Roman Republic. That is, before Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire. In fact, the…

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  • Saffron and Peri: Humorous Urban Fantasy

    History of Fantasy Saffron and Peri is the first step in an evolutionary process to make audio drama fantasies a reality. What does this mean? Well, modern fantasy has its roots in fairy tales and Post-Victorian era children’s fiction. Put another way, before the Victorian era (when the term “genre” was first invented), the chances…

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  • Bronzeville: A Black Historical Crime Thriller

    The Jazz Age or Civil Rights Era Chicago Bronzeville separates itself from other shows focused on black and African American culture by dealing with the past. Luke Cage and Black Panther may deal with more modern concerns like the Black Lives Matter movement or racism in America, but Bronzeville takes a different approach and comes…

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  • A Podcast Musical with King George III: 36 Questions

    From Broadway to Podcast Jonathan Groff is no stranger to musical theater, having recently played King George III of England in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s popular Broadway show Hamilton and nominated for the Tony Award in 2015 for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as the Hanoverian King during the American Revolution. After listening to…

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