The Sheridan Tapes - Podcast Rankings and reviews

A friend recommended this to me about a month ago and I’m so deeply grateful they did. Not only has it helped me get through my work day, but it’s inspired me to continue working on my own personal writing and acting projects.

Watching the performers find their voices throughout the show is an incredible experience. Anna Sheridan’s actress hadn’t ever done voice acting for a podcast before, and it’s been amazing to see the sheer amount of improvement that both she and the rest of the cast has made overtime. I’ve just finished season 2 and I’m deeply enjoying every second of it. Pacing, prose, story threads, performances, soundtrack… everything is tying together very beautifully. I am very much looking forward to buying that OST. Jesse, you make literal magic with your music.

For those saying it’s “pushing an lgbt agenda” please know that people like us exist— not only is this written, produced, and performed by an array of an lgbtq+ cast, it’s important to remember that podcasts are often one of the safest communities for people like us to share our stories. If you can’t handle the fact that we exist, then that is your own issue to deal with. But keep your homophobia and transphobia out of your reviews and offer some real, honest constructive feedback or be quiet! People are putting their hearts and souls into this, everything they have, and that’s not an agenda. It’s just art, made by people, for other people like them.

As a former Mormon, and an out bisexual, both Anna’s and Bill’s backgrounds speak to me so personally and deeply. I would imagine the rest of these characters do in their own ways to people who rarely get to have their voices heard in fiction or otherwise.

Side note: also noticed some of the reviews saying it’s a TMA ripoff? As someone who has listened to both thus far, I see similarities, but if you actually take the time to LISTEN, you will find it is very much not that at all. Original and beautiful and unique in its own way.

To Van Winkle, Virginia, and everyone else who has put so much hard work and love into this podcast, i thank you for all you’ve done. This is an amazing story and I both don’t ever want it to end and also look so deeply forward to seeing all this amazing stuff come to its conclusion.

This show seems so good and I tried to stick with it but I listen with headphones and the background noise & music include constant high pitched tones and beeping. It gave me a headache after a few episodes - if you’re sensitive to those types of noises be sure not to use headphones when listening to this show

Alternate title: LGBTQ Scooby-Doo. This show has so many fantastic elements. It has an overarching mystery peppered with interconnected creepy pastas. It’s Stranger Things meets The Twilight Zone. Very fun when it’s fun. Unfortunately a large portion of the time, it’s just characters whining to themselves about their post-teen angst. Those episodes are about as engaging as an emo kid’s diary. But it does sort of have a “dust yourself off and do hard things” message despite that.

I love “found footage “ podcasts and horror/suspense style of mystery. I found this is a great podcast to listen to since my others from Pacific Northwest are not coming out soon.

I really like the opennes of the podcast which includes getting high and lgbtqia characters. I feel seen! Heard! And love you for this.

I really wanted to like this. The idea sounded enticing. The music was engaging, and the start had me hooked but I found little else to keep me going. By episode four I had to call it quits. The narrator sounds like he’s trying to emulate some old Noir style detective which kinda comes off sounding forced. Meanwhile the character mixed with the voice acting for Anna makes her come off as the biggest airhead. She comes off as more of a character that belongs on a sitcom. Like I picture her having a coffee mug stating “No paranormal phenomenon till I’ve had my coffee”. I just feel like she undercuts any sort of tension a situation has with her oblivious nature. Which makes me lose any sort of tension. Again the story was getting kind of interesting. But I can’t feel any anxiety or worry about Anna when she certainly doesn’t.

I have followed this program since inception even a patron supporter. Sadly, as the seasons proceed the series becomes more droll. Truly well past time to wrap this up. What was an interesting and unique story has turned into a hot mess containing all of the usual predictable material. It is best to end on a high note rather than running a concept into the ground. Update: wow after dragging this story out with many many slow episodes, the ending (episode 99, skip 100 as the series ends on a new low) feels rushed. There are so many unanswered questions, there were simply too many tangents along the way to cleanly resolve within the two pinnacle hours. Again, sadly went from really unique to something Telemundo would never 👎🏿 touch