22 episodes
LifeAfter/The Message GE Podcast Theater / Panoply / The Message
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4.6 • 25 Ratings
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From GE Podcast Theater and Panoply, The Message and its sequel, LifeAfter, take listeners on journeys to the limits of technology. In The Message, an alien transmission from decades ago becomes an urgent puzzle with life or death consequences. In LifeAfter, Ross, a low level employee at the FBI, spends his days conversing online with his wife Charlie – who died eight months ago. But the technology behind this digital resurrection leads Ross down a dangerous path that threatens his job, his own life, and maybe even the world. Winner of the Cannes Gold Lion.
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Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 1
Since low-level FBI clerk Ross Barnes lost his wife to a car accident, he’s consoled himself by listening to her voice-posts on an audio social media website. When he hears something eerie and shocking while listening to her messages, it turns his life upside down.
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Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 2
At first Ross is overjoyed to be reunited with the voice of his lost wife Charlie. But her increasingly strange behavior leads him to a stunning discovery.
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Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 3
As the voice of Sasha turns up the pressure on Ross to reveal FBI secrets, he must make an agonizing choice.
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Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 4
Ross discovers spying on the FBI is a lot harder than it looks, as he tries to steal secrets from quirky computer scientist Octavia Roth. His subterfuge leads him to a horrifying discovery and even greater peril.
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Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 5
Imprisoned by the FBI and separated from Charlie’s voice, Ross desperately tries to keep his secrets and his sanity under intense interrogation by Brynne Cutler.
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Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 6
Now a double-agent spying on LifeAfter for the FBI, Ross struggles to win the trust of one of Sasha’s top human allies, the menacingly genial Paul.
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Customer Reviews
Two best podcasts - hands down
All the awards go to these two, I still relisten every few months. These are short and have clear, beautiful endings and amazing stories with rich characters. I keep checking if a new podcast will come in 😭
unexpected ending, good one time listen
I liked the concept, the storyline and most interestingly - the ending :-) Enough said, without giving too much away, definitely a one itme listen.
A brilliant innovative show of storytelling
The most enchanting thing about “The Message” is that it knows it’s auditory strengths and builds on the back of several troupes that audience has come to be familiar with on other mediums. The underlying theme of ‘using sound energy’ has been brilliantly encapsulated through the narrative without it coming across as an advertisement.
While the over plot structure and character depth is commendable, I am a bit skeptical of the ending, especially the twist, because I feel it answered some deeper questions a bit too quickly making the story feel like a one time experience. Perhaps it would have been better to leave certain things to the imagination.
Having said that, I still think the whole thing right from conceptualisation to execution is done brilliantly - something everyone should giving it a try once.