Janus Descending

If the producers could title the episodes in a more orderly way that would be MUCH appreciated. Also, there was some confusion about the parasitic predator and how it actually operates. Otherwise, the series is excellent. It's a smart story, with really good acting and very good sound effects. I heard some complaints about the static, but it was a good technique to introduce time jumps, shifts in perspective, etc.

I like it! Will there be a season 3?

The static sound effect makes it unlistenable.

This podcast starts with a strong premise - nonlinear tragedy/horror, in space! - but the later episodes start to feel overblown. In fairness, I didn't listen to the last couple of episodes so maybe this problem does get resolved, but I was just too bored to finish listening. The shape of the actual plot becomes pretty apparent only a few episodes in, and it feels like the second half of the podcast is devoted to filling in the last few details at a snail's pace. I really don't think I lost any of the story by skipping the last couple episodes. There's only so many times you can hear a character say "we never should have come here" in the same panicked tone before you stop feeling any emotional pull and just kind of get bored, and for me it made me feel generally less empathetic to the characters than I started out. The story begins as a narrative of an unforeseen and horrifying tragedy, and by the end it felt like a glaring indictment of a single character's pigheadedness. Literally the entire plot (!) could have been avoided if not for Chel reliably making bad decisions in a way that is written as starry-eyed and manic pixie dream girl-esque but comes across as, frankly, stupid. This last part is definitely very subjective, as is my entire review, but I honestly feel that if this podcast was maybe half the number of episodes that it was, the writing could have had much greater emotional impact. Maybe you'll like it more than I did - certainly a lot of people have - but I can think of several similar podcasts I would recommend over this one.