Popular Reviews of Syntax

Even the prologue is still stuck in my head. Fun characters, clean sound. Great actors! I definitely recommend it to anyone who wants a scifi office drama

Several episodes in and I feel like I've just scratched the surface of the story potential with this world and these characters. Grips your attention and doesn't let go.

A fascinating concept, the show has some of the things I love from the film Arrival and fellow audio drama The White Vault but still feels unique and interesting! I'm very intrigued by the start and excited to get to know the characters better as I continue listening. I love the way different scenes are cut together using cool unearthly sound effects!

I am surprised by all the 5star ratings. I stopped listening in the middle of ep4. The acting was forced and over the top and I had to skip through most of the scenes with the zoologist because her character was more like a whining, annoying teenage girl. The reason I am giving it an extra star is because the premise of the scifi story was good. It was a story line you could see hollywood making a movie out of. Too bad they wrote horribly cliched characters with all too common backstories into it.

So ADDICTING, an amazing cast with spooky stories of how each character wound up at the mysterious and fascinating Vincula. The world building and creature profiles are fantastic. I loved the descriptions of everything encountered.Super high stakes and you never know who is going to make it out okay in any given situation. Excellent sound design, story, writing, and acting.

I started listening to Syntax a few days ago and i gotta say its easily one of my new favorite podcasts of all time. The plot is super interesting to me and I instantly fell in love with the characters. Sylas and Cassius are my favorites and I love their dynamic with all my heart. Sylas is my favorite protagonist out of all the horror fiction podcasts I have listened to. Keep doing what you are doing and i can´t wait for whats next!

EXTREMELY COOL AND INCREDIBLY INTENSEI'm certain that this comparison has been made before, but if anyone has ever read/enjoyed Vandermeer's Annihilation, this podcast is right up your alley. It really takes advantage of the audio medium to describe these strange new worlds and creatures that they encounter - and the suspense is EXCEPTIONALLY well-done. With no spoilers, there's a scene involving an audio entry and a bird nest that had me on the edge of my seat. The cast also does such a great job - the main character Silas, especially, is such an endearing nerd of a guy. Wonderful work so far!

I've recently had to start driving three hours a day, got tired of the listen-to-people's-opinions-in-conversation podcast format and shifted to full-cast serial audio-dramas, leaning towards sci-fi and suspense to keep my brain alert. Early on, it was easy to find great serials like The Leviathan Chronicles, The Left Right Game, Rabbits, End of All Hope, etc., but now I have to dig through reviews and forums (forums are especially helpful), which is how I found Syntax.I give this only four stars because it is a really good story with effective sound effects but a mediocre script. Much of the dialogue comes off as high school level conversation, and two of the main female characters, Alex and Lizzie, have irritating high pitch deliveries like what you'd hear in many of today's cartoon characters. Lizzie, in fact, does not sound like the educated scientist she is supposed to be, but like a gibbering, giggling pre-teen. The rest of the cast is either good or adequate enough not to be as distracting as some of the shallow lines they must deliver. But back to the good part, the plot is linear, clever and mostly exciting. It is the story of a team, each with unique skills, thrown together to explore a portal leading to another world that has it's own portal to another world, which also has another portal to another world, and so forth. They find the deeper through the portals they go the more challenging it gets to make it back to the starting point, and safety. I'm almost done with season two and am glad I've stuck with it. Listen if you need to drive a lot and want to be carried through an otherworldly journey of unknowns as the miles clock up.

This is really pretty good. Certainly well worth a listen.