I Am Echo - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I Am Echo is thrilling and engaging. Well written and performed. Lots of twists and turns. I finished listening in one sitting. Cannot wait until the next story from this author! Have recommended this to my friends and family.

Being the child of a narcissist, I was naturally drawn to the premise, although the “science” is comically bad. The acting and the production values are acceptable, but the pacing of the story is much too rushed. It could be so much better if the writers took more time to develop the plot and the characters.

It’s worth noting that, if you subtract the commercials, each episode consists of about 12-13 minutes of actual content. That kind of says a lot about the level of effort that went into writing the script.

Was a good premise but the acting is pretty melodramatic, and way too soon as well. There’s no build up so the pacing is off. Also, it seems like whomever wrote this just found out about the meme/saying “main character energy,” and has grown fixated on it. Kathryn mentions it about six times in four episodes. For a person pursuing a PhD and who has had, presumably, a top tier education from the highest academic institutions in the country, you’d think she’d be more versed with a better vocabulary and means to contextualize how she feels. Instead, she appears to “echo” everyone else’s analyses ie immediately repeating her mother’s analogy of the greek myth. All in all, this had potential in plot but is pretty bad.

For a similar concept (a child or children uncovering corruption performed by their billionaire parent), a better well written and acted podcast to consider us Wondery’s Bad Blood. That one is much, much better at building up excitement.

This is how I love my podcasts to be! I Am Echo is fast paced and intriguing with mystery and science. I LOVE this one. This should be a streaming show!

The story was good, but everything was too centered on the main character. Every conversation is centered around just the main character and helping her figure things out. No other character is developed. It seems the very existence of everyone is to support the main character

I enjoyed the storyline but I’m not sure if I was the only one who felt like the storyline was predictable about who the traitor would be. Also, main character and brother had some missing emotions not sure what exactly but they didn’t catch my attention. At certain points in the storyline I enjoyed listening but majority of the time I already knew exactly what would happen before it happened. Still overall interesting storyline. But script could have improved and so would voice actors.