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Had an incredibly strong start and running through the 1st season, with both excellent individual episodes and overarching meta plot that tied together excellently in the season finale. Great sense of tension and dramatic execution. 2nd season was similarly well crafted, but by the 3rd and final season, the overarching story fell a bit apart. The ending seemed like a rushed culmination of events that left some critical aspects to the season’s more seemingly supernatural events entirely ignored. Especially considering how previous seasons (and the final season, to an extent) were rather pointed on contextualizing the not-supernatural (albeit potentially convoluted and terrible) aspects of events.
TLDR; excellent first two seasons, but unsatisfactory concluding season.
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Welp.... just shot through Darkest Night podcast. There are some good stories for sure. But they’re hit or miss, with the stories getting more and more gore heavy as it goes. It’s an anthology horror series with an overarching plot that ties all the stories together. (Minor Spoiler Alert) Basically you’ve got two people working for an evil corporation where they can look at the last moments of someone’s life by taking the eyes out of the corpses. The deaths make the horror stories, and the major plot is based around them finding out their company is evil, corporate espionage, and eventually getting the government involved.... because murders, obviously. It’s got some great voice actors, but for whatever reason all of them are doing it way too campily. The first season gave intrigue and connected the dots fairly well. I feel the second season furthered this track decently enough to keep me interested. The third season, however, was a straight descent into narcotic madness with a sloppy tie up and a ludicrous, nonsensical ending to the full story. God, it was disappointing! Lol Anywho, decent premise with some decent to downright fantastic stories peppered throughout. I really wish the execution of the major story was handled better. I’m not saying don’t check it out, it’s an easy binge, but be mindful that you won’t get full satisfaction. At least I didn’t. Dennis O’Hare’s voice acting was obviously the highlight and draw for me.
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The acting is very over the top in the few episodes I’ve listened to so far, but the stories are entertaining and really keep your attention. Lee Pace is FANTASTIC as the narrator and I’m a huge fan of Denis O’Hare, they’re both perfect. The musical bit in the second episode and the douchey guys chatting at the end are terrible, I’m hoping there is less of both going forward.
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Great job to all involved, this is immersive and keeps you wanting more! It’s hard to come by such a lively podcast that bothers with sound effects & a varied cast! Awesome job!
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The acting wasn’t too bad but the writing was atrocious. No one in this anthology seems to act like normal human beings aside from the two people performing the study. The sound effects are often really badly done foley — a syringe drawing blood should not sound like someone slurping on an empty McDonald’s soda, for example. Sometimes they’re okay, but not enough to feel immersive. But while plenty of disturbing violence is thrown about, nothing scary really happens, and there is very little atmosphere developed. Pass.
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Season 1 was great but after that it quickly went downhill. There is a massive overuse of “bloody” sound effects that it makes the actual story uninteresting. My opinion is just listen to the first season and end it there.
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