What? Huh? An Audio Drama Sunday post?? Amazing!!
🙂 Small Victories came back this week with a bonus episode from our girl Nina! Who's also! Having a time! Oh my gosh, Nina's rich inner life is a great contrast to Marisol's, where Marisol is the star of her own show, Nina needs an interviewer to wrestle her feelings into a shape she can process. I think it's interesting, because if anything, Marisol is a total hardass toward herself, bluster hiding some deep hurt and insecurity, and Nina is almost too gentle. I freakin love the way this show does characters.
💎 Sherlock & Co. is amazing, guys, have I talked about it lately? This series they're adapting right now is the Sign of Four, and...woof, guys. Woof. Just a friendly reminder that if your heart longs for Sherlock But Good, please listen to Sherlock & Co.
🚁 Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club presents: a ridiculous Thanksgiving special that had me ROLLING. They break format technically, but instead of callers asking for advice, it's Frank's unhinged family with all the usual improv skill. I think the actors must have spent a little time asking themselves, "What's the worst possible rich person thing I can come up with?" And you know, the show had me worried, because this could have gone so wrong, so I appreciate that this sitcom keeps its stakes low.
⛪️ As usual, Hello from the Hallowoods breaks my heart. I love when Mx. Wellman breaks format to do something absolutely devastating. In this case, the horror of Christian theology gone mutant and consuming to a man who was a boy who hid his culture from the world and his sexuality from the powerful--like it doesn't GET any more poignant than that!
🗡️ I started listening to Carcerem recently, which is one of those sleeper hits that started in 2020 and I'm obsessed. It's a high fantasy and it's absolutely gorgeous--straight up it's the only time I've fully understood an action scene with no dialogue. It's MASTERFUL.
There are more great shows this week but plenty of folks have talked about them already--c'mon Fawx & Stallion and Kingmaker Histories and Welcome to Night Vale and on and on. Guys, I love audio drama.
