“This show really affects me in such a deep, visceral way that I genuinely don’t know if I could ever truly articulate. It invokes a sort of philosophical nausea unlike anything else in the horror audio drama sphere I’ve seen before or since. The episodes that particularly stand out to me will always the timeline where McVeigh goes full Seven Days in May (although I can’t help but wonder if would’ve simply ended up another forgotten American war criminal if he never picked up a copy of The Turner Diaries at a gun show), the earth where the fear of overpopulation led to widespread eugenics (with the testing started at expense of the global south as these things always go), and that one glimpse of a better world where the AIDS crisis never happened. As a queer person, the last one left me with a sense of yearning for what might have been. And I’ll admit I always enjoy the one where Nixon went full General Ripper as well as someone who studies that era of history and has a bit of a vendetta against him <3
Anyway, I relistened to this whole podcast today because I miss it so badly. I know a third season is looking increasingly unlikely, but god, I want one. Although, I’ll always love the almost The Prisoner-esque ambiguity of the finale.”
A hopeless theatre nerd via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/15/23