“The Failed Cities Monologues is one of the finest well crafted story(ies) and podcasts I ever had the plesure to enjoy and listen too. The individual stories and well developed chararcters themselves alone are worth the listen but the overall experience along with the subtle but excenletly executed production values makes this podcast a rare treat even in an underground media dominated by talented names such as Sigler, Morris, Ballentine, and Ellis just to name a few. This is noir at its best and while neo noir has been done or at least attempted before TFCM rises above the rest. While one reviewer wrote TFCM off as simply being clever, noir as a genre is about cleverness and TFCM goes beyond that. Every characater and therefore each story by extension is a result of something more just than clever writing technique these stories and characters have heart. No character is a simple archtype. Each one is an authentic well writen and developed individual who stands apart from the vast majority of their fictional counterparts. Each indivdual story or monologue perfectly reflects their primary character and narrator. With that said its hard to find one character in most book as amazingly crafted as the 8 in TFCM. Last but not least there is a sequel of shorts called TFCM: Hath A Darkness sponsered by Varient Frequencies and is defenitly worth the listen but is only a tasty morsel of the feast that is TFCM as a whole. Matt Wallace, WE NEED MORE”
Wetlander87 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/16/10