Poor payoff and not a great storyline either.
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“The benefit true crime stories have is that they can have an anticlimactic ending, or what seems to be a sloppy storyline- because it’s true crime and life is never neatly written.
This story should not be afforded that luxury. What the heck? An entire episode about how Melissa grew up with an overly competitive father, and a sister she completely cut out of her life- there’s no payoff there either. You over discuss the smell of the medicine john Parker takes, and you can’t record what he and Melissa try to tell you when you reveal he’s only faked his death from his entire family???! This could have been so much better.
In the “ epilogue” you discuss how you’re going to explain everything in a few minutes- this isn’t the Black tapes, explain it now. And whatever explanation you give doesn’t make sense. Melissa and john are mad at “ the kids????” Are you out of your mind? You can’t decide whether to make them cold and aloof parents who neglected Rachel, or deeply caring parents trying to keep a secret from her. Nora was a weird red herring and Melissa is awful. I’m trying to find ways to constructively criticize so you can be better- making the payoff of this murder mystery, that there wasn’t any murder, just cruel parents felt poorly devised. It was as if you stumbled through this production and didn’t have any sort of story outline laid out before you.”
Magpie0716 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/08/19
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07/27/18
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“First ep was ok. Second was the most white bread boring fantasy dreck ive ever heard. Its like someone made an audio version of tommy wiseaus “the room” without any of the weird charm. If this is its regular writing level, its simpering garbage. Avoid.”
Not-fun via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/26/17
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“Narrator is excellent and and the production quality is great, but I can't get past the terrible voice-acting of the supporting cast.”Read full review »
jamie grisko via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/17/17
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