Popular Reviews of COPPERHEART

Copperheart is one of my all-time favourite fiction podcasts. The initial premise of an underground bunker during nuclear winter drew me in, and the developing storyline got me hooked. The writing is amazing, the universe so detailed and rich, and the cast are so talented!

What can I say? Mike is a brilliant writer and he’s compiled an amazing cast of voice actors. There’s new actors along with seasoned. With great mood music don’t by Astral Fog. Plus a cameo appearance from Karen the dog :-)

One of my absolute favorite scifi shows! Of course it´s got all the right ingredients: a postapocalyptic world, aliens, AI´s, mystery. But what stands out for me is the way the dialogue feels natural and that the characters are multidimensional and credible. Also, it´s really funny at times. Love it!

A highly detailed sci-fi story with great sound design and acting.

good & intriguing writing, decent sound design, but unfortunately there's just a layer of misogyny running through it that feels icky & while the writer is aware of sum of it (I have no issues with characters being misogynistic in a story, as long as it's addressed), i'm not sure the writer is aware of a fair bit of it (like how the women characters are written). it also has a lot of the classic hetero-mononormative assumptions built into character dynamics in a way that also feels like has aluded the writer's awareness. I rly wanted to like this, & the plot had me hooked, but it got to be just too much

A gripping story (5 stars) with lots of swearing and dog noises (minus one). The sound production is great albeit a bit intrusive at times.

There's a lot going on in this show set in an underground bunker at Area 51 in a nuclear winter, but Michael J. Rigg manages to keep it all clear while still delivering mystery, action and fear. Mysterious visitors and complicated characters abound. Just when you think you've got everything figured out, another layer is revealed...

The story is amazing. I never got across anything like this. If what you like in sci-fi shows/novels is the magic of what could be potentially/theoritically possible, don't miss this one.

Voice acting: A-Writing: A-Production: A-Sound: A-Review Revised: 12/27/2021 because I thought there was two seasonsand I had listen only to season 1. It was just one season with a very long break.COPPERHEART is a post apocalyptic science fiction drama where mutually assured destruction has lead to nuclear bombs which has lead to a nuclear winter. What's left of the human race lives in underground bunkers waiting the 50 odd years until it's safe to return to the surface. General Hayden of bunker 27 asks Lt. Kiminski to do an independent investigation into the disappearance of all the people in bunker 51. Kiminski is stuck with his dog and the bunker A.I. pouring through recordings of what happened to the people in bunker 51. The podcast alternates between Kiminski's POV on his investigation (odd numbered episodes) and the POV of the denizens of bunker 51 (even numbered episodes).I feel like this podcast is the younger brother of Wolf 359. There are so many characters that remind me of someone in Wolf: the pop culture freak (freaks in this case), the bad major with the smarmy voice and sadistic overtones, the captain that is trying to adjust to new circumstances, etc. However, the younger sibling has taken what their older sibling has taught them and eventually made it their own. It took about 10 episodes before the first shift takes place. Luckily, the podcasts episode are about 5 - 15 minutes long so you don't have to wait very long (the first 5 minutes consists of introduction, ads and a recap of the previous episode so the episodes are shorter than you think).I must commend the writer for an intricatley planned plot. Every time I thought I knew where the plot was going - it shifted. It was like a chess game when someone moves a pawn just one space and it changes the dynamics of the entire board. By the end of season 1, I thought I had it all figured ahead of the characters. I was wrong. My one quibble with the plot is the epilog and the season two teaser. I am not quite sure how they fit but I am dying to find out.The voice acting is excellent except Baxter, smarmy possibly villainess major. He is a very talented voice actor but I think he overdid it. I was initially annoyed by the two pop culture freaks because its hard to beat Effiels dialog in Wolf 359. However, by the halfway point, the pop culture references were reduce in favor of character development which gave the voice actors more to work with. As the season came to a close, I was rooting for the both.The sound production is top notch except the voice of the bunker director's kid. It's clear that he is using a different type of mic because you can tell there is a difference in the sound whenever he speaks. I realize it's nit picky but it's jarring when the rest of the sound production is so good.I would highly recommend that you listen to this podcast if you like cleverly written sci-fi audiodramas. If you haven't listened to Wolf 359 yet, by all means listen to this podcast first. You will appreciate it originality more.Disclaimer: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach criticize". I am in the latter category but I posted my review on Reddit. Therefore I am right until challenged. Are you up to it?😁

I just discovered this podcast and I love it. The story is incredibly engaging and the voice cast does an outstanding job. I can't wait to get even further into the story and check out other Riggs productions.

Very cool sci-fi/fantasy story! I couldn't follow everything that was going on all the time, there's a lot of stuff happening, but it's a unique premise and a good listen!