Eh. It’s okay. Gets worse over time.
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“Maybe it gets better, but halfway through the second year and I’m getting really tired of the massive amount of sappy, feel good episodes. Very few are in any way similar to the twilight zone (which, to be fair, isn’t something the show pretends to be, but it is a major reason I started listening after hearing it described this way on Reddit). I would just like more twisty, dark, or just plain mysterious and funny episodes. Few to zero need to make me “feel good.” It just seems like the creators want this to be an “after-school special” podcast. Which would be okay, but it’s not marketed like that. That’s not what I’m here for. I want mystery, and frights, and intriguing situations that are as bizarre as they are creative. I want the twilight zone. I want Ray Bradbury. I don’t want some high schoolers dealing with the death of their friend, or getting The Talk from their friend’s dad, even if that is a great episode. That’s Democracy was the first episode I listened to and it was amazing! I absolutely loved it and thought it would be the beginning of my new favorite podcast. But no episode since has even slightly lived up to it. I’ll listen to the whole show because they are really well made and many times the stories are fantastic. Even the boring after school specials have something to enjoy. But it’s not what I thought it would be. So if you’re like me and looking for an original, creative, imaginative, mysterious anthology show in the vein of twilight zone, this ain’t it. That’s not to say you won’t enjoy it, but manage your expectations. I wish I had.
Update: I’m now in the 2019 episodes. This will be an exaggeration but it really seems like they only had two or three original episodes in the 2018 year. It was filled with four- and five-part stories, compilations that included old episodes, and entire episodes of different shows. Every major podcast does this to an extent, but the sheer volume of other shows the Truth uses as filler is ridiculous. It doesn’t help that the one or two original episodes they produced were awful. This show is really good at taking an elevator pitch and turning it into the worst slog version of a “story” I could imagine. It’s truly awful at times. Like, “What if a ghost inhabits the body of her still-living best friend? But all they do is complain about how intrusive shes being while eating lunch one day.” Or, “What if everything you tweeted came true? But the REAL story is about how infidelity can destroy relationships.” 🤮 Come on. You guys have such good ideas - when you actually HAVE any ideas at all - but you make the worst stories from them.”
Bhoelle1809 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
06/19/23
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