Popular Reviews of Passenger List

Season 1 was great, 5 stars. Acting, production, plot - all great. Season 2 was a decidedly giant step back. Still enjoyable to listen to I suppose, but there was tons of filler, way too much exposition, and it wrapped up abruptly in the last ten minutes or so. A bummer that so many podcasts do this towards the end, they can never wrap it up well.

This has been really good so far. Captivating and DOESN'T slide into YA territory as some fiction podcasts can. Good audio. Quality writing, decent acting. Can't wait for season II!!!

This a full package sort of fiction podcast. The performances are great (go Kelly Marie Tran!), the writing is tight, the sound design immersive, and the mystery incredibly demanding.

Exciting! I just hope it returns.

Kelly Marie Tran knocks it out of the park. Both seasons are spectacular.

Season 1 was very exciting, season 2 not so much. It just got weird.

The two stars are both for the quality of the acting which was great.But the story was poorly written, both narratively as well as technically.Even the basic parts about what can cause a plane to disappear wouldn't survive a 5-minute review by a pilot. The epidemiological episode was also pretty cringeworthy. Same with air traffic dialogue.The arc of the story over the two stories was very uneven. It seemed like they didn't know how many seasons they had and just kinda kept writing episodes for a quota. The finale felt rushed and inconsistent with the rest of the series.

The story is compelling, even if the great reveal became obvious half-way into the season.The arc is perfect, the characters are interesting, and the audio is superb.

I really enjoyed listening to the exiting stories that have been told in both season one and two.I just binge listened season two. Well worth my time!The sound effects and voice-actors make the whole story believable and life-like.Also the storyline is very well written.

It's like the best episode of the Twilight Zone, but for your ears. You'll be kept guessing all the way!

Only listened to season one but I love it so far! Especially as a Vietnamese-American, I really love how this podcast added some Vietnamese into the conversations between Kaitlin and her family. Made it feel more realistic.

Great mystery with top-tier production, I love most things about it. I almost stopped listening a couple times because I find the main character incredibly sanctimonious and insufferable, and at times she'd make choices that I felt were just dumb. It sort of feels like the writers wanted to make her feel powerful and confident, but she comes across as arrogant most of the time and practically never gets called out for it. I still really enjoyed it, but I'm curious if others have the same opinion.

Drags a little, but over all very good!

Fantastic series, high quality production, really entertaining; has all the elements of a literary page-turner. Although the premise was not my piece of cake, I got sucked into the story mainly because of the good job of the creators: good writing, nice acting, exceptional sound design; all in line with other Radiotopia productions like The Truth. A fun listen that I recommend.

Superb suspense filled podcast with brilliant voice acting. Can't wait for season 2 which is coming soon

Can't wait for season 2 coming (Spring?) 2021, per google search...please now more than ever, please, please, please don't let me down for this instance, google search. :-)

This kept bumping up against my willing suspension of disbelief. It was difficult for me to believe that so many people, including family members of the passengers who would have been harassed non-stop by reporters and conspiracy nuts, would willingly give up their privacy to talk to a person who claimed to be a journalist or friend and likes to ask insulting questions, without so much as a Google search first. If you can get past that, the plot's still a pile of scattered red herrings and a weak sequel hook. The show tries to thread a line between how far is too much conspiracy nuttery and how far can you trust official statements. The trouble is that various conspiracy theories are picked up and dropped once per episode in repetitive fashion and that lack of commitment presents a more compelling case for a lack of a conspiracy. It doesn't help that the heavy foreshadowing means you already know what plot thread is going to be most important, making the early episodes feel like pointless filler, while also making you wonder about a person who seems to be deliberately focusing her attention where she won’t find answers.

Passenger List has become one of the most successful and renowned audio fictions and it deserves such a status. As a bigger budget production it has a higher expectation put upon it and it doesn't disappoint.Passenger List follows Kaitlin, the sister of a passenger on board Atlantic Flight 702, as she investigates the mysterious disappearance of the plane. While plane mysteries have been done before, Passenger List at least offers a new approach by not focusing on the travellers. Kaitlin is sucked deeper and deeper into what she believes to be a conspiracy and soon finds herself in danger.Throughout her search for the truth Kaitlin meets friends and family of the missing passengers and experts in various fields. Most of these characters are diverse and vivid, well rounded despite only appearing for a few minutes here or there. Kelly Marie Tran performs the main character well, juggling a range of emotions and problems and conveying each with a relatable realism.Radiotopia certainly produced a hit with Passenger List. Two great seasons have been and gone and hopefully there is more to come.

Very smart and compelling mystery. I really enjoyed how the writers opened each episode with engaging intros. Well done.

A great podcast for those who appreciate shows like LOST.