The Elmwood Strain

I stumbled across this podcast and I binged it quickly. It draws you in and each episode you want more. I love full cast fiction and this on was spot on. Just press play.

listened in one go. this Is a well produced and well written fiction. listen and enjoy!

This is one of the better shows I’ve listened too. It’s intense and emotional. The acting is great along with the sound effects. There are triggers mentioned by other reviewers that catches you at times. I listened to this in one evening because I couldn’t wait to hear the next. Bronco 👏🏾to the cast.

Everyone except the main character is absolutely awful, but the main character continues to get dragged along with these people she doesn't even like. There's a lot of sound with no context, so you don't know what's going on. It's just loud, and gets louder when you have to crank up the volume to hear them talk quietly or whisper. Honestly didn't enjoy listening to the main character continue to put herself through this mental and emotional torture.

I wanted to like this podcast based off the premise but it was a definite miss.

Starting with the good:

The voice actors and sound effects were great.

The bad:

The plot. Made it to episode 5 of 8 before I called it quits. You have no investment in the main characters. Between the friends who are just bullies/sadistic to the FMC who just goes along with all of it even when she is the target just because. For her to have been such an integral part of the group she definitely just lets everyone le... more

Amazing. The last episode had me in tears.

Dreadful. One of the worst and most disappointing audio dramas I've ever listened too. The main character is too gullible to root for and the supporting characters are so unlikeable I couldn't bear it by the time I'd dragged myself to the halfway point of the series. The plot is unclear for the most part, with themes popping up here and there with little depth.

I hardly ever give up on any form of media that I begin but I couldn't force myself to the end of this. Truly awful.

It's entertaining enough to keep your attention, although the writing is mediocre.

The characters are extremely hard to swallow. The actors did an amazing job of making you hate them. Like, these characters go from obnoxious to evil and I despise all of them through all of it. Whether you will like this depends on how high your standards are, and more importantly, how many exhausting losers you can deal with in a story.

Character motivation make no sense and nothing happens until the last few ep.

The writing, the acting, the sound, the effects, and OH THE TRAUMA, *chef's kiss*.

The story is intense, fast, and disturbing. Episode 1 presents a high casualty mass shooting. From there, the story leads into darker levels of discomfort. Heed the show's trigger warnings.

Some other reviews state that the main character Paige is "unlikeable." Here's another take. She's debilitated by PTSD and by guilt she doesn't deserve. The cruelty she endures is unsettling (and hard to listen to). Under t... more

Just a massive trigger warning that the plot centers around a school shooting with mass fatalities. Would’ve been nice to see an official trigger warning on it. Every character was unlikeable.

Lame

Had to give up at the beginning of episode 3. I couldn’t get hooked and the actors limited vocabulary makes me feel stupid that I’m actually trying to give it a shot. Don’t get me wrong, the voice talent is great, too bad the dialogue is so uninvented. I’m actually embarrassed now to admit that I tried listening to it for so long. If you’re looking for an action/thriller/suspense… this is definitely not it.

One of my top 5, edgy, suspense, good and bad, it’s really good, acting is excellent and premise is really good and I am only on episode 5. I been binging since I started and had to stop to write a review

This show is great! Blasted through all eps in 1 day. Really impressed and gonna tell as many folks about it as I can.