Tag: Audio Drama

  • The Last Day – Origins

    A post-apocalyptic tale with a dark undertone that rivals the movie: “The Road,” in terms of its bleak look on the future and the end of the world. While not truly post-apocalyptic, the setting is dystopian, much like 1984 by George Orwell or the many books of the cyberpunk movement.

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  • The Hobbit (NPR Dramatization)

    With the third and final Hobbit film coming to the screen, it only made sense to review a Hobbit audio drama. It’s hard to criticize this the same way people do modern audio dramas. A lot has changed and the story itself is a timeless children’s classic. After watching the extended edition of “The Desolation of…

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  • The Huntsman Legion 101: The Good Stuff

    The first episode of the Huntsman Legion shows promise with it’s futuristic setting and detective tropes. It’s hard to say whether the rest of the series we’ll be as good, but the “new guy” to the audio drama field knocks  episode one out of the park.

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  • The Seventh Key

    This was a wonderful story with an ending that didn’t quite bring it home. Without going into too much detail, the “what really happened” ending felt overly complex for the sake of being complex, rather than to enhance the story. Twists are a great tool for short stories, but audio seems the hardest medium to…

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  • Alone in the Night

    Part of the Wavefront Anthologies series, from Electric Vicuña and starring Jack Ward of the Sonic Society, Genevieve Jones, Tanja Milojevic (from Pendant Productions’ starring role in “The Line”), along with David Ault and John Bell, this hour-long short has both emotional resonance and a twist which rivals the one found in “The Sixth Sense.”

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