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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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  • This Thing of Ours Episode 5

    When hearing the tagline for “This Thing of Ours” (“A story about life in the mafia”), images of Scorcese and Copolla’s films enter into the imagination. The holiday party was hands down the most immersive scene about the mafia lifestyle. The scene had such great ambience. It feels like you’re sitting in the room with them.…

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  • This Thing of Ours Episode 4

    Episodes 2 and 3 were not the best, but the last two episodes more than makeup for it. Generally, the second act of a story is the boring bit, because you’re in between an awesome beginning and the climax. You still have to get from point A to point C, but point B is where…

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  • This Thing of Ours Episode 3

    There are better ways of expositing, than an info dump. The whole spiel about the garbage service of New York City being the new prohibition was interesting but wasn’t really relevant to the story. There are going to be some people who need an explanation as to why having two guys threaten to take a…

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  • This Thing of Ours Episode 2

    Starting off the second episode with a long expository voice-over isn’t the best way to start. It was interesting but bordered on being a simple info dump. The first episode never crossed that line. It came close, but it never crossed. That and the episode didn’t start with a monologue. The first episode blew me…

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  • This Thing of Ours Episode 1

    The first episode of Scott Spaulding’s “This Thing of Ours” is a great mixture of the first-person viewpoint, production value and what can be accomplished in an audio drama. The story plays out like one being told in the first-person point of view. Normally, in film and radio, it’s often a cheap trick to give…

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