Consumed - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I noticed the negative reviews and wanted to give some love back to the creators. This podcast is my new favorite and I wait each week for a new episode to come out to see how the story progresses. The characters are so much fun to listen to and the banter between our main leads makes me smile with how adorable they are with each other. I’m really excited to see where the story goes and how it connects into the Bridgewater universe. Great job creators on an engaging and funny show!

I enjoy this series, but the excessive pauses for modern guitar solos (the music segments), combined with the long outros and advertisements, significantly cut down the actual content. What should have been a 20–23 minute episode felt more like 15ish minutes of substance. I hope future episodes focus more on the storytelling and less on the filler. The outro was still excessive on Bridgewater but it seemed to have more quality content.

Personally thought this was much better than Bridgewater. The voice acting was better and the editing tighter, which made conversations sound more realistic. Better sound design and better (less melodramatic) plot.

Overall I enjoy the podcast- I don’t understand the Gordon dislike, he’s fine. The main character is a bit shrill and some of the dialogue is a bit… sitcom-y one liners and little jokes that i could do without bc it’s meaningless banter. Like 5-6 lines to convey something that could be conveyed in 1 -2 lines. But it’s fine. The setting is cool - Id like more description somehow and less banter but not sure how that could work in an audio drama without a narrator? Anyway it’s creative and clearly a lot of work went into it. I appreciate the bridge water crossover. I do agree with another reviewer that felt uncomfortable with the use of Native American myth. Coulda used something else….thats a bit dated and used and has some valid criticisms. But I’d definitely listen to another season or a cross over/ spin off. (Oh and if any producers are reading : the variation in voice is super helpful for a generation raised on tv and internet! The sheriff was instantly recognizable of course but other secondary characters like Avery’s parents took a second- especially since episodes are short and spread out. )

Just finished this series. Not sure why I subjected myself to its entirety. The premise is one you’ve seen in dozens of horror flicks, and though the path is well-trodden, it’s not the setup I take issue with. The execution is completely predictable, and things just sort of inexplicably happen - the writers didn’t even spend the time to establish any sort of weak contrivance to motivate the story along. The voice acting is perfectly fine, but the sound design is sparse, making most of the series feel rather ungrounded. The dialogue itself is some of the worst I’ve heard. Nearly every other line is a tiresome pop-culture quip, which solidifies both the characters and their writers as some of the most annoying people of all time. Characters literally say things like “erm, that was awkward,” and “he’s right behind me, isn’t he?” which I found really obnoxious. There’s also this peculiar dynamic where every character in the show, regardless of age, demographic, etc. makes out-of-place comments embodying gen-z/millennial neoliberal politics. I couldn’t care less what the politics of the show are, but the comments don’t feel true to its setting or characters. Just about the only likable one of the bunch is the sheriff, but she sees little air time. I spent most of the listen-through hoping the two protagonists would shut up. The ending is sloppy and nonsensical. The last two episodes feel hastily pulled together and completely unsatisfying. Overall, there’s little here to redeem its faults. I’d say, skip this one.

I was really excited about this new story set in the Bridgewater universe, but it was disappointing in several ways. The very limited tie-in to Bridgewater was the most frustrating - was definitely hoping for more there. The story was very difficult to follow and hard to picture because of the lack of description. It was often hard to follow who the characters were and who was speaking - like listening to a TV show without being able to see what’s going on. (Radio dramas are supposed to fill in those gaps.) I felt like a lot of time was wasted on the romance without actually moving the plot along. There was also some of “the rest of the world dislikes Americans” self-loathing, as well as modern vernacular such as “colonizers” used by an older character who wouldn’t be using that terminology. And yeah, I don’t speak Spanish so I missed some of the story. (Do the writers know that many people speak Spanish because of colonization as well?) They only seem to have a problem with “white,” English-speaking colonizers. If you want to do a production in Spanish go for it! But if it’s an English production, don’t throw in a ton of another language (any language) without translation.