Popular Reviews of I Am In Eskew

I could listen to a million episodes of this show and never get bored - just brilliant story telling, phenomenal acting. The sound scaping and atmosphere is so subtle, but has SO MUCH impact. I feel like bits of this story will play on repeat in my head and heart forever. The ending in particular really sticks the landing, pulling together the whole thing in a messy, eskew-ian way that feels so perfectly adequate, yet leaves me aching for more.

"Horrific city and its denizens narrated to you by a man with a calm voice, to the backdrop of gentle rainfall" is an odd premise, but Eskew does it extremely wellThe various episodes were all different, all hitting in different ways. Episode 5 stuck with me even now, after 30 episodes of the podcastThe ending especially was very well done. I'm not sure if it's what I expected - but equally I wouldn't want it to be any different.

Very nice, creepy show, which has a compelling building storyline. Wish it went a little bigger, but that's what The Silt Verses is for, the creator's current running show.

this is night vale but if it was weirder and nastier and meaner, and the narrator has less hope and inclining to go down depression path

A British Welcome to Night Vale, a town filled with horrors and endless rain. I jumped straight into this on my way to work, and despite the pleasant walk, the stories cut right through to the unnerving and disturbing. Definitely a must for Horror fans!

I'd love another season or even another few more episodes. I'd hate to think that David's story is done. The stories were great and kept me hooked. I liked the constant rain and the dark atmosphere. Everything about this world was intriguing yet scary.

I cannot put in words how much I love this podcast. It was my first podcast ever, and the first horror *anything* that I actually enjoyed. The thing that hooked me first was the narrator's voice, it's just so calm and soothing. And it gets to a point that's so absurd because of just EVERYTHING that's happening around the main character and he's just talking, chill. Anyway, I don't know how to write reviews. Just, go listen to it. It's worth it.Just a cw: there's lot of grotesque and gore-type of descriptions. But the voice doing the description is lovely and soothing so you'll probably be distracted anyway. lol

If you like strange and unusual horror, this is it for you. There are no other podcasts like I Am In Eskew. I saw something once that said you should try to create art that only /you/ can make. That's how Eskew makes me feel while listening; it's so uniquely original.Each episode builds on the surreal world of Eskew. While at first they might seem like mostly unconnected one-off stories, the plot and character arcs start tying together so subtly you almost don't notice, until it finishes in a finale I couldn't have have imagined better.

Very creepy. Quiet and well-told.

the most accurate description of this podcast I've seen somebody give online was "it makes ma want to chew glass".I think it's hard to enjoy this one moment-to-moment, but it's easy to enjoy it after you've listened to it. it's a bit like reading kafka's trial, except you get mad at josef k. for giving up and you get mad at david ward for not giving up. the show captures the quiet horror of being absolutely helpless and being forced to bend any way the world wants you to. the horror of living in a nightmarish, mad place, and yet worrying you're mad regardless, in a completely separate manner.I appreciated it more and more with every episode. I absolutely recommend this podcast. I think the "I used to dream of cataclysmic events like these. [...] some awful and unique tragedy that would be a way to make sense of me. but now I am in eskew, and I understand there’s nothing to be explained" quote from episode four will always live rent free in my head.I think I'll carry on.

Uses place-as-horror as well as body horror to comment on cities and capitalism; banal environments such as a corporate office or an apartment are twisted into nightmares. Each episode builds on the surreal world and plot threads come together in a satisfying way leading to a good conclusion. The narration is literary, and the narration is set against a backdrop of ever-present rain that, alongside the cadence the main narrator uses, adds to the mysterious, unsettling, and dark nature of the story.

Low-key, unsettling horror, with a plot that builds slowly over multiple episodes. Great writing, great narration.The early episodes have a strange background noise, a bit like falling rain. Not sure if that was deliberate or a recording quality problem, but it's kind of soothing once you get used to it.

The first few episodes were just okay, but by episodes 4 and 5 I was hooked. I’m loving this weird city and the delivery style of David’s narration. He’s such an average, keep-your-head-down Brit but living in a not so average place. He’s intelligent with a dark humor, and he’s definitely grown on me. It can be challenging to keep a single-narrator show interesting but David keeps me enraptured almost every time. As of this review I’m a little over ten episodes in (out of 30), and I have already noticed some very nice Mieville influences. I am continually amazed at the originality of this show.

A dark and mournful but curiously hopeful and poignant story. I advise against listening to this while driving over the A69 through Cumbria on a dark wet night, but by all means do so on a bright and sunny day or somewhere cosy, possibly with a nice cup of tea.

I Am In Eskew is quite possibly my favourite horror podcast of all time. I've listened to it in its entirety something like three full times. I love it.Eskew demonstrates a masterpiece use of architectural and environmental horror- the environment, the city itself, is a character all its own, a malignant claustrophobic and looming thing that both dotes and seethes in equal, alien measure. There's something indescribable to this podcast and its narrator: a sort of defeated but enduring spirit, the glimmer of will in the eye of a man who acts like he's already dead, and it feels like it shouldn't work yet somehow does. It's good, is what I'm saying. I Am In Eskew is really goddamn good.

Incredible

A part of Eskew has found a doorway and branched out into my brain and it will not leave. I'm not overexaggerating when I say that I think about this podcast every day. The writing is SO good and unique and the story is incredibly bingeable.

I super loved Eskew up to about the last third of it. Excellet, creeping horror that really stays with you, with a protagonist just proactive enough to not feel like a total hapless victim, while still evoking all sorts of sympathy and dread. Some of the SFX transitions I found annoying but learned to be ok with. But a particular turn in the plot didn't land for me toward the end, and the ending itself I found very unsatisfying with regards to the protagonist in particular. I found it very wishy washy. But there are still so many highly creative, disturbing, and morbidly delightful moments that I highly recommend it for horror fans. Just don't set your expectations too high for the finale.

A narrative diamond. The atmosphere is (other than rainy) mysterious and sinister, in the best of ways. There is something to be said about some themes being potentially a no-no by some people. But I've listened to it in the dark, while rain and wind were claiming the world out of the windows and stayed for more. Don't listen to it with the lights on.