“The is about "The Message." - First of all, new audio sci-fi is always welcome. "Radio" drama, as it was known in the old days, engages the mind's eye in a way that visually told stories just can't. "The Message" succeeds very well at creating a believable mise-en-scène. The "fourth wall" is not just ignored: instead, the podcast goes to the opposite extreme of creating a podcast-within-a-podcast, which is very clever. Great effort has gone into writing natural dialogue. The recording, however, is a little TOO realistic, in that audibility would have been much improved by boosting the speech frequencies in the mix-down. Although the writers do better than most at creating believable medical and scientific scenarios, they also take some really chucklesome liberties and commit several hilarious goofs. Well, nobody's perfect. Now, on to "Life After."”Read full review »
MAFinOKC via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/14/20
“A really good start but the 'NSA guy' lost me a bit. It was all feeling perfectly real until him. Nicely done. I'll give it a try to see if they can keep up the spell.”Read full review »
ttroy via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/05/15