Popular Reviews of Emperor Pigs

Crass? Yes. Extravagant? You bet. Out of damn control? As far as I can tell, this show won't stop until it's pissed off everyone, and I'm loving it. NSFW, which is just fine by me.

I'm a newcomer to the Emperor Pigs but I've enjoyed the experience and even had a bit part on an episode. I'm looking forward to more and looking forward to maybe being on again in the future.

An absolute joy to both listen and work for!

Hilarious show with lovable characters and edgy material. It WILL offend you and probably everyone you know. Totally worth it.

Totally new to this audio drama and their production. Totally no one important here.Just a man, posting a review telling everyone to check this podcast out. RIGHT now. Like RIGHT NOW. No excuses.

Subscribed and so should you be.

I am almost caught up on this amazing show. I love the noir/monster feel this show has. The scripts, voice acting, and production is all top notch. This will be a show I am going to be happy to be keeping current with and can not wait to see where it all goes.Update: I am fully caught up and really really enjoy this show. Super fun and very much not a copy of anything I have ever heard before.

I'm pleased such crazed, idiotic, bat-sh$t crazy episodes exist for my enjoyment. Is this series rude? Yep. Crude? Uh huh. Cheesy, sleazy, and easy to please? Oh yeah. This audio-troupe challenges the listener to poke holes in their sense of humour. Whenever I get offended by an episode, I stop and try to figure out WHY I'm offended. Perhaps I'm reading too much into this show; however, it gives me a welcome break from my (frighteningly) dynamic workplace as a high school science teacher. I listen to them at home, between breaks. NSFW? Of course. Emperor Pigs reminds me that I'm an adult with adult-senses-of-humour. My 2 cents... Bravo, eh.

ETA Apr 7 2020: I received a notice from the creators of this podcast that they were not responsible for getting my review deleted from iTunes. In good faith, please consider the first two paragraphs of my review below rescinded.Since the creators got my review deleted from iTunes, I resubmitted an updated review and I'm keeping a copy here and on my computer.I was surprised and disappointed that the creators of this podcast had my previous review deleted. Given the great pride they take in their comedy courting controversy, I thought that they could take it as much as they like to dish it. I also thought my review was honest without being rude, pointing out the problems and how they could be fixed. Anyway, here’s a new updated review, based on having listened up to episode 8. I feel it a duty, with this podcast, to let potential listeners know what they’re in for.This show has a problem with the character of Fernod. Because he is a rapist. Yes, he's meant to be a jerk who randomly kills his human colleagues. Outlandishly evil, sexist. In other shows, I have found that funny. In episode 3, in response to a question about why the many women he has impregnated do not seek him out for child support, he says that it's because "They just usually don't remember me. I prefer getting them drunk or using a special quiet time pill." i.e. Bill Cosby's modus operandi for drugging and raping women.Let’s be clear on two things. The Rorschach test here isn’t whether Fernod is a rapist or not. He took away the ability for women to consent using alcohol and roofies, and then he also impregnated them without their consent. He IS a rapist. The Rorschach test here is whether this “comedy” trivializes rape and wants you to sympathize with a serial rapist. I feared that the story arc of Fernod would not be acknowledging and taking responsibility for his heinous acts, but him wanting to settle down, and try fatherhood. I was right. His lesson was that he chose to settle down with the wrong person. You're supposed to feel sorry for him. And I cannot. Not when this is a very similar playbook to the one Matt Lauer is using.Episode 8 kind of doubled down. Fernod shapeshifts and sleeps with one of the characters, who is devastated that she was raped (finally, the victim’s perspective!). But Fernod couches his duplicity in the language of transgender identity. Perhaps it was commentary on his villainous entitlement to appropriating transgender issues, but given how opposition to bathroom access for transgender people uses the bogeyman of sexual assault, the episode comes closer to "Wouldn’t it be funny if a trans person committed sexual assault?" instead of a more helpful message.W.Kamau Bell, in response to Shane Gillis’ racist jokes, said the “As a comic who also “pushes boundaries”, part of the deal is getting pushback. If you don’t want pushback, then don’t “push boundaries”. I sincerely hope that my feedback isn’t going to be deleted a second time. Bell also added, “the boundaries of “jokes” on native Chinese ppl not speaking English well were already pushed by comics when TVs only came in black & white”. You’re not pushing boundaries by trivializing rape or inviting people to laugh at a woman being traumatized that she couldn’t give informed consent for sex. That’s old hat. That’s already the world we live in. You’re just punching down against victims. You can always choose to write jokes that punch upward against rapists and homophobes. Those are not the jokes in this podcast. Oct 21 2019

I really was enjoying this cast until they introduced a super awkward trans charecter for what appears to be the express purpose of making fun of them. I let it pass the first time but the second time they showed up and everyone else in the room just made "can't you just pick one?" jokes, I was done. Really fucking clueless, which is kinda shocking considering how queer modern radio drama is. You could have been so much better.