How it Ends - Podcast Rankings and reviews

This is a very slow-burn spooky drama where a small group of friends research, argue, investigate, and get terrified. It’s very different from most horror-adjacent podcasts because it all feels very real — the conversations sound like real conversations, the evil people are believably awful, not VILLAINS, and when characters get hurt, it feels real, not “dramatic injury.” It’s definitely a long haul, but I bought into the characters enough to fret all through COVID that it might not come back, but it did! Our main characters are messy, sometimes frustrating people doing their best in a bad place. Try it out, it might be for you!

the characterization of each and every one of these episodes blows me away every time. i feel like i can see and feel exactly what the characters do. the mystery only gets better as the episodes play, so of course this show is worth a listen, and then a re-listen, and maybe even 5 times over, especially since there's SO much to unpack with every single person they introduce to us!

it may seem a little slow to begin, but believe me, it's worth it guys. if you go in open minded and willing to have a great story told to you, it's genuinely one of the best shows you can throw on. i love the supernatural lore and events sewn together with such realistic depictions of young adulthood.

To the team: thank you so much! i can tell this means a lot to them, and that's honestly the most worth-it part of the equation here. thank you guys! ❤️

I get that it won’t be for everyone, but everyone saying that the plot is slow kinda missed that that is the entire point. That is because the show isn’t ABOUT the plot. In my view, the plot here is just something that happens. The show shines in the characters. How they interact, the way they live through it all. It tells a realistic story about people just living their lives, while a story happens alongside all that. Don’t go into this podcast for the story. Go into it for the characters, the friendships. That’s what it’s about.

I’m not in the habit of giving bad reviews, but this podcast is awful and I’m frankly feeling like a fool. And I hung in there for all three seasons, believing in the slow burn other reviews said was worth it. The “realistic” conversations are too realistic. Banal and pointless. Talking about menus is a regular event. Whole episodes (hours) will go by in which you learn basically nothing- neither plot nor characters more forward. The actors themselves seem bored with the scripts. Even when action happens (which is exhaustingly rare!) they can barely rustle up an emotive tone. Supposedly they are “all in danger” for three seasons but you’re 2/3 of the way through S3 before they kinda, maybe have some danger. It’s a great podcast for falling asleep, but if you want action, mystery, or intrigue, this is not it.