Tag: Audio Drama

  • Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls: Sweeney Todd’s Barbary Falls in a Trap.

    Stories that wrap everything up in a bow are my favorite kind of endings. The conclusion of Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls does just that. This is one of the few times where I can honestly say that the mystery plot of a story is executed perfectly. I’ve said before that it’s hard…

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  • The Knightmare (Part Two)

    The second part, doesn’t fulfill the promises made at the beginning. In fact it twists the end, not once, but twice. This would be fine, if the twists didn’t feel like they were being made for the sake of the twist—and not the story. The two twists follow somewhat cliche archetypes: The Act III villain…

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  • Our Fair City Season 2

    The second season of Our Fair City has an interesting structure. The first few episodes are quite dark in tone, which peaks around the middle episodes. Then we take a relaxing, comedic breather in the episode about the creator of the M.O.L.E. people. Dr. Morow. The reference to Stephen Hawking was enjoyable and the part…

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  • Snape’s Diaries

    Going into this I thought the series was complete, but the end of episode four gave no closure to the series. In fact that’s when it started to get good. Not that the first three episodes were bad. They were okay, just not on the level I’ve come accustomed to when listening to a misfit’s…

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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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