Guess who’s back, back again—happy Audio Drama Sunday to everyone, hope we’re doing well. I’m gonna cover a bunch of stuff I’ve been listening to while I was on my little sabbatical.
🥚 Can we talk??? About @vestaclinicpod????? What a way to end the season! I was so impressed with exactly how much suspense this show managed to wring out of this one episode, and of course not everything is all right yet, but maybe it will be! I love the classic medical drama trope of one person desperate to give their life for another while the doctor pleads with them to see sense. I don’t know what will happen next season, but it will be…new!
☄️ @midnightburgr has done it again—I ADORE science history, and Tycho Brahe is an absolutely inspired choice for Ava in particular. Shoutout to Alan Burgon doing yet another dubious Scandinavian accent. I love this weirdo, but I love even more what this does for Ava’s characterization. She wants to be untouchable and a creature of pure math and physics, but she is IMMEDIATELY friends with Tycho’s wife Kirsten, and does her best for the two of them, and STILL makes the decision to go home in the end. The universe doesn’t care about you, but you have to care about the universe.
🪞 ItMe posted that this episode of @storiesfromylelmore was a hate letter to all the girls who were like, “Let’s summon a literal murder ghost to this fun sleepover,” and honestly I have to agree. I don’t think it’s bad to want to know what kind of powers I’m dealing with before I deal with them! Of course, the literal children who are in this episode have no such hang-ups. I love this episode—I love the weirdness and the clothes shenanigans (including the information that Keryth is larger than non-wolf Rion, which may have come up before but is especially good here) and especially the last-minute rescue. It rules.
🔎 I listened to all of @mouseknightstudios’ Ghost InSpectors! And I was frankly enchanted. What is it about a good old fashioned detective story that hits the spot? This show is silly and serious in turns, and I especially liked how it did not ever shy away from grief, and the repeated grief you would experience if you could see ghosts. I liked it a lot.
🕳️ Ohhhh man, The Grotto. I figured between Woe Begone telling me about it every week and really enjoying Redacted, I should check out Athan’s other show. I am SO impressed. I’m about four episodes in and this show is terrifying—and it’s not just the claustrophobia of the caves, it’s the psychological torture of grief, a would being opened up over and over again. Literally. I’m already so into this, I can’t wait to see what happens next, watching from between my fingers. Also, that music slaps.
That’s it for me! Have a good week folks.