Dirt - An Audio Drama - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Though some previous reviews criticize the voice acting, the creative is on-point. Suspend your disbelief and go for the ride. It’s mysterious, surreal, and yet clearly based on real places and histories that make it feel grounded and rich. These may not be Hollywood actors, but it’s rare to find a podcast with such unique and expansive storytelling. I listen to hundreds of fiction podcasts. This is one of the very few that I have listened to end-to-end multiple times. Enjoy.

This has been engaging and intriguing to listen to. While the mystery is deep, this story’s lighthearted delivery keeps you wondering while you see the pieces fall into place. The narration is spot on. It is easy to follow this story as it unfolds.

I love this story and the voice actors. But imagine watching a TV series arc with just one episode per month, and several years to finish. I unfortunately started listening a year before the final season. I do think this will be a wonderful show for people to binge listen *after* it’s completed. But a month between episodes feels wrong for the nature of a mystery-thriller genre.

Ive been listening to Dirt for a couple years now, seeing as how the final season took a while to release. It has been an engaging enough story to get me to go back to it after a very long pause.
However, I find myself increasingly frustrated with the awkwardly written dialogue, and voice actors (esp female characters for some reason) who don’t deliver their lines naturally. The dialogue can be annoying to incredibly frustrating at times, as it takes you out of an otherwise thoughtfully written story.
I love the characters, the plot, even the sparse soundtrack, but I really wish they had cast voice actors with a little more believability.
(Also, for some reason a LOT of voices in this show sound nearly identical, esp female roles. If someone told me all the characters in the show were voiced by only three people, I’d believe them.) just wish there had been more variance in the voices present.
Aside from that, and as someone who believes in the value of independent art, I think this show is definitely worth a listen, and I’d congratulate the cast on what is obviously a project of passion. Hope the host makes another show… with some diversity in voices represented.

It reads like it was written by a cishet white man who thinks he’s significantly more intelligent and eloquent than he actually is, as some sort of self-insert and for other cishet men who think they’re intelligent. All the acting is unpracticed, which could be excusable, but there’s narration that absolutely ruins any flow it manages to develop. The MC is a tech millionaire that is the center of every other character’s universe. Not a single woman in this show has any depth at all whatsoever outside of their connection to the MC. The exposition is given way too much importance (relies way too heavily on tell and not nearly enough on show), and the plot is super mid so it’s barely even worth listening to. The only reason it deserves even 1 star is the sound design, which is decent. OVERALL: 1/10

EDITED REVIEW!

Voice acting improves as the show progresses through the first two seasons. Then regresses in seasons 3 and 4 with jarring pauses every 3rd word, sometimes mid word pauses for NO REASON. I cannot understate how fake, robotic and painful this is to listen to. This has gotten BAD. I can’t in good conscience recommend this podcast if this disgusting artificial speech pattern continues. The worst part is that there’s still scenes of normal people having normal conversations without broken cadences in their speech.



Just finished season one. Average overall. The “Tannis” style narration seems to stick around. At least the jumping around and secrets for no reason THANKFULLY stop after the first couple episodes. Decent story.

Podcast clip ads are annoying. No idea what podcast is being advertised as there’s no introduction to them. By the time I realize it’s not Dirt anymore, it’s too late. It’s confusing for no reason other than to trick listeners into hearing ineffective ads.