oh shit youre doing podcast recs again? hell yeah, youre tastes are exquisite. podcasts that feature a wlw lead? everything else doesnt matter much
Mabel (poetic, dark fairytale/horror romance)
The 12:37 (time travel scifi train crime)
The Last Show (post-apocalyptic scifi college radio show feat. very good host banter)
The Pilgrimage Saga (spaceship scifi with ragtag crew trying to find Earth despite interpersonal tensions and sabotage)
Inkwyrm (scifi workplace comedy feat. will-they-wonât-they enemies-to-lovers at intergalactic fashion magazine office)
Unwell (creepy midwestern gothic mystery about homecomings and hometown secrets)
The Strange Case of Starship Iris (found family does crime and rebellion IN SPACE)
Palimpsest (season 2, early 1900s young woman escapes her criminal motherâs house and is hired as the servant to a fae girl imprisoned by a showman)
Greater Boston (genre-bending comedy-drama and also my favorite podcast, ensemble cast where two of the main leads are wives who get embroiled in a bizarre political battle over the future of Bostonâs subway system)
Within the Wires (experimental alt-history found footage scifi, seasons 1 and 2 have wlw leads)
Superstition (supernatural mystery about a bi, Jewish, purported detective investigating a small Arizona town with a strangely high number of missing persons cases)
Station to Station (scifi mystery, scientists and spies on a research ship discover dangerous secrets surrounding a time-bending anomaly)
Solutions to Problems (scifi comedy interstellar relationship advice show)
Kalila Stormfireâs Economical Magick Services (urban fantasy about a witch trying to run a small business)
Gal Pals Present: Overkill (psychic girl scout accidentally summons sarcastic mid-2000s teenager ghost whoâd like answers about her murder)
Dark Ages (fantasy workplace comedy about dysfunctional employees of a failing natural history museum in a high fantasy world)
The Bridge (atmospheric & spooky, employees of a watchtower along a disused bridge spanning the Atlantic Ocean tell stories of its heyday and collapse, & deal with local monsters, monster hunters, and rival secret societies)
Arden (comedic âtrue crimeâ podcast, except the crime is Romeo and Juliet, and the hosts are wlw Beatrice and Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing)
Alice Isnât Dead (lesbian weird horror Americana road trip)
Wooden Overcoats (sitcom about rival funeral homes on a tiny British island, one of the main characters is a bi woman)
The Far Meridian (dreamy, bittersweet magical realism about a woman who goes searching for her missing brother when the lighthouse she lives in starts magically appearing in new places every day)
Archive 81 (phenomenal found-footage-ish horror with a lesbian deuteragonist in the first season)
Tides (meditative science-heavy scifi about a biologist shipwrecked on an alien world)
The Blood Crow Stories (very queer, very anyone-can-die horror anthology)