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The Call of the Void
The Call of the Void is a science-fiction/mystery podcast produced by Acorn Arts & Entertainment.
In the bustling streets of New Orleans, a tour guide and a palm reader team up to unravel the mystery behind people's sudden loss of senses and sanity. The root of the story is courage, love, and forgiveness, in a frame of science-fiction and mystery.
In the bustling streets of New Orleans, a tour guide and a palm reader team up to unravel the mystery behind people's sudden loss of senses and sanity. The root of the story is courage, love, and forgiveness, in a frame of science-fiction and mystery.
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Published January 16, 2020
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August 25, 2022
(Season 3 review below as well)
One of the better podcasts I've found in my post-Magnus withdrawal hunt for something to, heh, fill the Void. Very well-written, acted, and produced. Season 1 involves a sort of mystery plague that begins afflicting people, mostly in New Orleans. It becomes more critical to figure out what's going on once the plague turns lethal. Naturally, some of our main characters are eventually afflicted by it and have to figure things out before they succumb. Less naturally, the plague is of super-planar origin from , and has definite "Colour Out of Space" vibes, though with several twists.
Highly recommended.
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As GoodReads seems to have clamped down on people adding stuff (and afaik podcasts don't have ISBNs, which GR seem to want these days), I'm just adding my read/review of Season 3 here.
It starts off strong. I'm not a big fan of crazy-swamp-lady, so I got tired of segments where she had a lot of lines (I love the voice actress, just not this character), but YMMV on that. Mid-episode 7 I nearly gave up on it at the car chase/crash scene, because of how utterly pointless it felt (more in spoiler tags below). I finally skipped to the end of that scene and kept going. The attempted consequences from that scene were utterly eye-roll-y, but by episode 8 it was back on track, and stayed good through to the end, with a very nasty creepy twist that I didn't predict, but that I did catch on to before Etsy did.
Very enjoyable ending (even if the epilogue gets a bit schmaltzy). Worth a listen if you've made it through the first two seasons.
Anyway, more on the things that bugged me:
One of the better podcasts I've found in my post-Magnus withdrawal hunt for something to, heh, fill the Void. Very well-written, acted, and produced. Season 1 involves a sort of mystery plague that begins afflicting people, mostly in New Orleans. It becomes more critical to figure out what's going on once the plague turns lethal. Naturally, some of our main characters are eventually afflicted by it and have to figure things out before they succumb. Less naturally, the plague is of super-planar origin from , and has definite "Colour Out of Space" vibes, though with several twists.
Highly recommended.
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As GoodReads seems to have clamped down on people adding stuff (and afaik podcasts don't have ISBNs, which GR seem to want these days), I'm just adding my read/review of Season 3 here.
It starts off strong. I'm not a big fan of crazy-swamp-lady, so I got tired of segments where she had a lot of lines (I love the voice actress, just not this character), but YMMV on that. Mid-episode 7 I nearly gave up on it at the car chase/crash scene, because of how utterly pointless it felt (more in spoiler tags below). I finally skipped to the end of that scene and kept going. The attempted consequences from that scene were utterly eye-roll-y, but by episode 8 it was back on track, and stayed good through to the end, with a very nasty creepy twist that I didn't predict, but that I did catch on to before Etsy did.
Very enjoyable ending (even if the epilogue gets a bit schmaltzy). Worth a listen if you've made it through the first two seasons.
Anyway, more on the things that bugged me:
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