Afflicted: A Horror Thriller Audio Drama

Put on your headphones, turn down the lights, and experience the attention paid to the sound designing, which is as important to this story as any character.

I really enjoyed it! Creative and unique storyline as characters. Kept me on the edge of my seat and looking forward to the next episode. Looking forward to season 2. I also enjoyed the creepy facts shared at the end of each episode. Though provoking and interesting. Great idea to include!

The writing, the acting, the sound design, it was all very good. But every so often there would be difficult to follow leaps in the narrative that made me feel like I missed something and a few voice actors sounded similar enough that I would get confused from time to time. This was definitely good enough for me to want a season two, but I hope that because it’s an audio drama, they spend more time establishing characters first and talk us through any big changes, making sure any action is in the sound or dialogue I thought they did a great job balancing the human story of the town with their mythos. They were establishing of this book that will no doubt appearing further seasons.

This was actually entertaining. If you go into it with an open mind it naturally pulls you in. The zombie thing has been done many times, but the plot is still interesting. The distinct, diverse character voices made it easy to tell who’s talking, and the actors for August, Sheriff Bob, Hank, and Rhonda were very good. The rest were either a little over the top or couldn’t quite get into character fully. Many sounded like they were reading directly from a script. I think a bit more character development would’ve pulled us into the story even more. I didn’t know much about anyone, so it was hard to feel emotionally connected to them. And while the background effects were awesome, I’d probably tweak them down while the characters are talking so we can hear them a little better. Otherwise, bravo. Looking forward to seeing how this podcast continues to evolve.

The premise is misleading and there’s so much going on without proper introductions to many of the characters that it becomes confusing and frustrating. The Maria character is wholly unlikeable, I don’t know if that’s down to the writing or the actor, but I spent the entire series rooting for Rhonda to kill her. The only episode I truly enjoyed was the historical, diary entry episode. If this had been about this family and their practice I would have thoroughly enjoyed it. But it wasn’t and I didn’t.

There were a couple horribly executed accents. Too much assumed knowledge regarding “hoo doo”. The audio mixing is way off in parts, people crying or screaming and actual conversations going on but no way to hear them unless you want the crier to blow out your ear drums. Probably my biggest annoyance was the bad accent on a couple characters, I’d just cringe with every sentence.