The Orphans is my favorite podcast and I’m always excited to see new content. Excellent sound quality, amazing voice acting and engaging storytelling. Keep up the great work!

Just finished season 2 and I’m liking it overall. It has good voice acting and storytelling. The pacing is quite strong. I like the concept of interconnected smaller stories, since each season is its own story, and so far it’s pulling it off well. However. Characters often make leaps of logic or in their character arcs, and the antagonists have evil voices, which I’m not fond of. There are also so many ads it’s hard to want to pick the podcast up, knowing I’ll be spending so much of my time skipping through the ads.

If u like action, suspense, syfy ect… then give this a try, I am so glad I found it and listened, acting, writing and sound effects are great, I am only a few shows and felt the need to comment. GIVE IT A LISTEN, u won’t b disappointed

It’s a SciFi clone story exploring individualism via characters who show us their whole heart. Likability, charm. That’s what draws me in. It’s also a slow burn mystery, where resolutions feel perpetually postponed. And lots of very bad things happen. Who is getting the worst of it? Why? There are pretty direct and depressing parallels to reality. Sometimes it hard to get your bearings between scenes. The sound design is interesting and appropriate to the story, with great musical elements. But it is also very hard to find a good way to listen. There are lots of painful volume shifts and piercing harsh noises, with voices altered in ways that make your ears tire very fast. That’s all relevant to the plot & setting, but it’s difficult to experience. Earphones are out because of the volume shifts, but even on speakers the harsh sounds become too painful, so you have to be ready to mute/adjust in an instant. Luckily, episodes are pretty short, so working through each one in spare moments is possible. It’s just a bit hard to listen clear through in one sitting.

However season 4 and 5 exists only to provide snippets into the story and to collect ad revenue. Beware, commercials and asking for patrons make up a good amount of those “episodes”. I am giving 4 over my gut of 3 stars as it is a good story but falls flat, hopefully it will return to add to the world.

There would be no show without the creator so please speak for yourself there is no we here. The show can from the creators mind obviously and I love the show and the creator awesome job!!!!!

WOWZA 🙌❤️

Fantastic writing, excellent voice acting. I’m not usually a sci-fi fan because I hate hate heavy-handed exposition. But the writing cleverly skirts that issue plus provides compelling personality and growth for each of the characters. I also love the short, tight episodes and that each season has a central arc/mystery, with politics, history, and a few characters that interconnect them.

Like all podcasts that start out the creator makes the mistake of thinking folks need to hear him ramble on. We love the show, not YOU! Great show, season 2 starts a bit slow and plods along compared to season one but.... it’s worth it to push through.

Orphans is the kind of sci-fi I crave. I can’t wait to keep listening!