Limetown is a faux-NPR docudrama about a secret laboratory town, similar to Oak Ridge, TN. Reporter Lia Haddock starts out trying to piece together the story of how all of Limetown’s residents suddenly disappeared, and then she gets sucked in to a rabbit hole of fringe science. It has exceptionally high production values (particularly compared to the other podcasts in this review), but sadly only six episodes were made, with a second season still in vapourware.
The Black Tapes is in the middle of its second season. Alex Reagan starts out making a podcast on paranormal activity and runs across the Strand Institute, a Randi-style debunking shop. Its president, Dr. Richard Strand, keeps his unsolved cases in the titular black VHS cases. (No word on where he gets them.) While it starts out monster-of-the-week, it quickly (and unsurprisingly) gathers up the loose ends into an overarching mythos by the end of the first season. The second season is widely held to be slightly better than the first season.
Tanis is a spin-off of The Black Tapes, in its first season. Producer Nic Silver studies “the last true mystery” in this Information Age: Tanis, a wandering phenomena currently in the Pacific Northwest that either grants you all your dreams or unleashes your greatest nightmare. Sadly, Nic has this thing where he tends to ask questions by repeating the last few words of the previous sentence. Otherwise the mythology is much richer and way more consistent—this is The Invisibles to TBP’s Promethea.
The Message is a downright bizarre 6-episode commerical for a non-consumer General Electric product. It makes less than any conceivable amount of sense.
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Limetown is a faux-NPR docudrama about a secret laboratory town, similar to Oak Ridge, TN. Reporter Lia Haddock starts out trying to piece together the story of how all of Limetown’s residents suddenly disappeared, and then she gets sucked in to a rabbit hole of fringe science. It has exceptionally high production values (particularly compared to the other podcasts in this review), but sadly only six episodes were made, with a second season still in vapourware.
The Black Tapes is in the middle of its second season. Alex Reagan starts out making a podcast on paranormal activity and runs across the Strand Institute, a Randi-style debunking shop. Its president, Dr. Richard Strand, keeps his unsolved cases in the titular black VHS cases. (No word on where he gets them.) While it starts out monster-of-the-week, it quickly (and unsurprisingly) gathers up the loose ends into an overarching mythos by the end of the first season. The second season is widely held to be slightly better than the first season.
Tanis is a spin-off of The Black Tapes, in its first season. Producer Nic Silver studies “the last true mystery” in this Information Age: Tanis, a wandering phenomena currently in the Pacific Northwest that either grants you all your dreams or unleashes your greatest nightmare. Sadly, Nic has this thing where he tends to ask questions by repeating the last few words of the previous sentence. Otherwise the mythology is much richer and way more consistent—this is The Invisibles to TBP’s Promethea.
The Message is a downright bizarre 6-episode commerical for a non-consumer General Electric product. It makes less than any conceivable amount of sense.