Started listening to The Black Tapes. Pretty good so far. Anyone recommend some other good ones? Limetown is my personal favorite.
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Tanis is done by the same people as Black Tapes. It's more or less the same format and has some of the same problems, (like the people they interview tend to be stupidly coy with information,) but the overall story is pretty compelling. They do a good job of crafting their fiction around a framework of facts.
>>17473462
Yeah, that's on my list as well. It sounds fairly compelling. But yeah I agree, there's definitely something to be desired.
The Message ends kinda shitty but otherwise good
>>17473464
Yeah, but they're no worse than most TV shows. X-files had the same problem, some guy would call them and have a clandestine meeting and everything only to speak maybe two vague and pointless sentences that could have been relayed in a text message or something.
The one thing I like about both podcasts is that while their background characters often act kinda like schmucks in this way, their exposition moments, when they're telling the details of some spook story or strange event, they do a good job of creating fascinating details, and tying them together.
The Tanis notion draws from similar sources that David Lynch used when crafting the supernatural concept behind Twin Peaks. I'm kind of surprised, actually, that they haven't mentioned it, because their story is distinct enough that they need not worry of being accused of plagiarism, but the details would lend even more real world cred to the fiction they're creating.
I tried Return Home recently hoping for more Twin Peakish story telling and was sorely disappointed.
>>17473474
Sticking the landing is always the hardest part when trying to develop a genuinely compelling esoteric, supernatural mystery.
There was a six part miniseries called The Lost Room which, for five episodes was absolutely masterful, exactly what you need, explains why the knowledge isn't wide spread, why it is sought after by some, why there's infighting over the secrets, why people have different angles of interest, everything.
Then SPOILER ALERT
Episode six just shits all over it. Worst writing ever.
