Where the Stars Fell - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I absolutely love the chemistry between the characters and the voice work. All the performances are wonderful and I really enjoyed the development of Ed and Lucy’s relationship. I also absolutely adore the foreshadowing and call backs in the story. As others have said if you like Supernatural, X-files or Good Omens you’ll probably enjoy this. I’ll definitely be continuing this podcast! With this praise however my biggest issue with the series is as follows:

The story would benefit so much from more description. While the sound work can be good, it’s simply not enough to compensate for the consistent absence. This doesn’t become a huge detriment until Dear Listener (Season 2: Episode 9) which discusses many topics one of which being accessibility, neurodivergent experiences and POC representation in media. The episode just ends up unintentionally calling out the issues in the story many of which are brought about by the lacking descriptions of characters, actions and events. Ultimately making it feel extremely hypocritical. I will say I feel there is improvement after this episode on some of these elements. So while I hate to say this, this episode may be best if skipped since plot and character wise it doesn’t progression much if anything.

Good stuff first, the writing for the story and the writing for the character dynamics are great. The actual performances are all very well done, honestly not a bad performance in the series. But it has its problems. The overarcing plot feels like the generic theology plot that most people write when wanting to takle the topic of religion, can't really say I'm a fan of it. Honestly if it was just the two leads hunting cryptids I'd be good with that. Also the sound effects are a bit diffifult to understand. I've had several episodes where I no idea what I was supposed to be visualizing from the sounds I was hearing. A few mehg episodes, maybe three overall, but still absolutely worth listening to and I'm looking forward to whats next.

Excellent show. Newt Schottelkotte is a perfect actor for this kind of show. Sounds very natural, unscripted (if that makes sense). Looking forward to hearing the next show they put out.

My only complaint with the show is the short episodes. That’s annoying.

This was a feed drop on one of my favorite podcasts Starship Iris. I started it and I am on episode 4 now with no plans of slowing down. The story is solid and the voice acting is on point! Just listen to the first episode and you will be hooked as well.

When I started this show, I assumed that my inability to tell what was going on was a stylistic choice or early installment weirdness. It isn’t. In fact, it’s getting harder to parse what’s happening to the characters as I go along. The core issue seems to be that the creator fundamentally does not get that podcast listeners can’t see what’s going on, and therefore you have to TELL US.

The scripts do include more notes and blocking, but that is the literal opposite of an excuse. I truly don’t get how you can write an entire episode about audiobooks and accessibility and yet fail to notice that those same audiobook readers need audio podcasts. Honestly, it’s a pretty hilarious fail.