Personal Highlights Someone Dies In This Elevator: S2E9 -For The RecordIf there's anything I've learned from listening to SDITE, it's that you don't mess with elevators. Especially not in what feels like such an obvious way as in this episode. It felt like this entire group of people were taunting the elevator gods, and I … Continue reading Audio Fiction Sunday 5th February 2022
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Audio Fiction Sunday 8th January 2022
Personal Highlights Someone Dies in This Elevator: S2E7 - Depths of Ocotillo Mine. Written by Andrew Siañez-De La O (who also wrote season one episode South of Palenque), this powerful episode addresses themes of colonialisation and gentrification, through what appears to be a first date. So many of SDITE's episodes have stayed on my mind … Continue reading Audio Fiction Sunday 8th January 2022
Audio Fiction Sunday 11th December 2022
We are back! And with a fancy new logo! Personal Highlights Someone Dies in This Elevator: S2E5 - Rise. In an episode written by InCo's ItMe!, there's a chilling and memorable examination of structural inequality and the extremes people will go to for a better life, through the depiction of a futuristic dystopia. It's a … Continue reading Audio Fiction Sunday 11th December 2022
Audio Fiction Sunday 16th October 2022
Personal Highlights Lost Terminal: 10.2 - I have been having nightmares. This episode includes an intriguing depiction of a post-Collapse relic, that's left me with so many questions. The big one obviously being, how does this arcade still have power, so many decades after the fall of society? It's very much unlike anything we've seen … Continue reading Audio Fiction Sunday 16th October 2022
Audio Fiction Sunday 31st July 2022
Personal Highlights Hand in Glove: Episode 2 - Try Me Out Sometime. In this second episode, we're given a new perspective on our two main characters, and Jake especially - thanks to a reporter. The opening scene fills out a lot more details about his past, and lack of advancement in his career. It's the … Continue reading Audio Fiction Sunday 31st July 2022
Someone Dies In This Elevator
Someone Dies In This Elevator is a murder anthology podcast produced by Tal Minear, the creator of Sidequesting and What Will Be Here. They’re a prolific writer, voice actor, sound designer, and all-round pillar of the indie fiction podcasting community. After listening to season one of SDITE, I described the podcast as a ‘reverse murder … Continue reading Someone Dies In This Elevator
Audio Fiction Sunday 17th July 2022
Personal Highlights Lost Terminal: 9.2 - We're in St Petersburg. Firstly, I had a good laugh about time zones, especially given Seth's feelings about them. It's the beginning of another long journey for Seth and Maddie, but there's also a focus on some other important themes in this story. Seth brings up the FAILSAFE's satellite … Continue reading Audio Fiction Sunday 17th July 2022
Ghosts in Fiction Podcasts
Happy Halloween! Starting out an essay about a traditional aspect of horror saying that my limit for the genre has always been fairly low is an interesting choice, but bear with me. I’ve never been someone who chooses to actively seek out horror TV shows/films, and looking back now, at least some of that was … Continue reading Ghosts in Fiction Podcasts
Audio Fiction Sunday 19th September 2021
Personal Highlights Great & Terrible: All That's Left. I was definitely Not Okay after this episode. It’s so rare that Penelope lets us see so much fragility, it’s obviously a natural response here, but it makes what she’s dealing with hit us that much harder. It’s been a slow build-up to this breaking point over … Continue reading Audio Fiction Sunday 19th September 2021
Audio Fiction Sunday 8th August 2021
Personal Highlights Welcome to Night Vale: 191 - The Many, Many Lives of Frank Chen. Back after its annual July break, I was wondering in which direction the show would go this year, and we soon discover that things are not what they should be in Night Vale. There's been some time travelling to get … Continue reading Audio Fiction Sunday 8th August 2021
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