#cozypodcast

[southernista]

Just listened to the first episode of the @getcozypodcast and I really enjoyed @cozykrysti interview with author @jenjchow and now on to @amazon to purchase Mimi Lee Gets a Clue Can't wait for the next episode At this rate my TBR pile will never shrink 😂 #getcozypodcast #krystimyer #jenniferchow #sassycatmysteries #cozypodcast #ilovecozymysteries #ilovecozies #cozymysteries (at Durham, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWGiV9mranB/?utm_medium=tumblr

[tryerofpods]

Let's talk about @gatherthesuspects from MadeUp Audio Back into the more recent content, season 1 of Gather the Suspects came out in March, and all 6, 1/2 hour episodes are available now wherever fine pods are "sold". Life in the Prosperity Heights apartment block in Wales has been dull as dishwater since the apocalypse, until someone in the building dies. Then flatmates Kara, Jack, and their neighbor Geraint put on their amateur sluth caps to crack the case!...if, that is, Jack can be bothered to put on some pants and stop playing video games. This self-described cozy mystery is both fun and funny, with solid individual characters throughout the building, humor, and slightly different world for the backdrop than most cozies. So who killed 'Dapper Dan'? Will Jack change out of his bathrobe, and will those annoying oldsters at the apartment meeting ever become more enlightened? Who knows...you'll have to listen to find out!

[tryerofpods]

Let's talk about Still Lives from Studio Knox. It's 13 years after the fall of modern civilization and 5 people live together in a rustic cabin/farm. Their rules are simple, everyone has a job and does their part, and they don't go by their names or talk about what happened before the end. The Archivist, The Soldier, The Scientist, The Cook, and The Kid. Everything works, a little wooden, but it works. Until The Traveler arrives. He's the first other person they've seen since it all ended. What does it mean for the group?? What do they want? And what does this say about the fall of civilization--how many others are there? At 8, 30-ish minute episodes, Still Lives does a great job of world building for the small amount of world we can see, and slowly zooms out a little. It's an odd sort of cozy drama/mystery, not just of who the new guy is, but also, what happened to end civilization when nature seems relatively normal...not nuclear winter, so far as we can tell, just wait and all shall be revealed. I'd be interested to hear more from this universe, but no signs of that so far. Still Lives, it seems, is actually just a single season podcast, and one worth enjoying. If you'd enjoy a really quiet(?) post-apocalypse piece, then this show is for you. I honestly don't have a comparison. Maybe...if The Cleansed was just the bit on the farm before they head off in the canoe? Or if Blackout had less action and they just kind of, stayed in the middle of nowhere? Nah. It really is its own thing. And IMO a quiet post-apocalypse piece is a cool, novel idea.