Our Fair City - Podcast Rankings and reviews

This quirky audio drama takes place in a corporate-run city in the middle of a post-apocalyptic tundra wasteland. Rather than make it dark and gritty, the creators made a fun story filled with a colorful ensemble cast of characters including:
-your friendly neighborhood mole people
-a mad scientist trying to bring the dead back to life
-another, rival mad scientist
-a tough and protective mother determined to drag her adult son out of the trouble he made
-her wayward son
-a near indestructible sewer worker with his trusty shovel
-his sharp, conniving girlfriend
-a suspicious dead disposal driver
And more!

If you enjoy absurdism, sci-fi, postapocalyptica, steampunk, and old-timey radio, (Even though this isn't steampunk but bear with us) you'll probably love this! But there's one thing I've always told people about this show:

"The toilet humor can be distracting, but it's necessary to keep the podcast as lighthearted as it is."

After all. If they just stuck to jokes about how nightmarish the society is, well... it'd be easy to lose hope real quick and start seeing everything as just one big joke. So, what's the podcast without the jokes?

It's a tale of people desperately trying to survive in a corporate-run, climate disaster-ravaged dystopia that sees the preservation of human lives as the bottom line, and doesn't care in the least about individuals. It's a cautionary tale that shows just what happens if a corporation runs every aspect of human life, (Speaking of which, if you liked Obsidian's game Outer Worlds you'll love this) and it shows what happens when rebellion stops becoming a distant dream and becomes a necessity.

Yes, it's political. But those themes, I think, improve the show. It gives it a feeling of being grounded, despite all the absurdism from giant ants, Herbert West (call him Herbert. yes, THAT Herbert West) the Reanimator, zombies, cryogenically frozen scientists, mole people, and day-to-day life in HartLife.

PS: If you start losing hope, don't worry. The ending is... well. You'll have to see it to believe it.

We all have that book or movie that we weren’t sure about, but kept going with, only to find out it’s amazing. This podcast is one of those. To be honest this took me a couple of tries. I didn’t understand what direction this was going or how the characters fit. But I gave it another go, and let it play. After awhile I realised that every episode left me needing to know what happens. I didn’t want to listen to anything else, and ended up binging the series.

In the last 8 years I’ve listened to hundreds of podcasts. This show is hands down my favourite. Writing, acting, production, imagery, all phenomenal. Do yourself a favour, put your headphones on, strap in, and give this a real chance. It’s REALLY REALLY GOOD!!

Our Fair City is so well done.
It’s one of my favorites of all time.
It’s like listening to an old serial radio show and the sound “design” is top shelf.
I look forward to listening to each new episode.

I honestly loved this podcast until they started pushing a political agenda in the 7th season, very disappointing for them to sell out after all this time. Still a great story, but ultimately tainted by biases.