Popular Reviews of The Once And Future Nerd

Compelling fantasy story with high production value. Solid balance of comedy, drama, and action. ? Hot tip for 1st time listeners! Instead of listening to Chapter 1 as 4 distinct episodes, you can listen to them all as 1 episode via the following episode: "SERIES PREMIERE SPECIAL: The Prince of Iorden (Full Chapter)" — Sep 17, 2014

A serial fiction podcast where brilliant writing, acting, and sound production come together to create a thoroughly entertaining story. Can't recommend this one enough.

Great! great great. Very fun, funny and high drama.

The high fantasy setting is used as a way to build parallels with real-world issues and events, such as class, gender, and race struggles. The worldbuilding is interesting in how the depth of the world is revealed to both outsiders and the people living in it, and there are some fun takes on fantasy tropes (ex. all the Elves speak with Southern Old Money accents). The protagonists are all flawed and grow in various ways (though the kids take a long time to develop and break out of their stereotypes, it's satisfying when they do); the female characters are interesting and the characters have diverse personalities and dynamics. The narration is engaging in describing characters' actions. The narrative balances serious topics with levity. A couple twists of folk songs included in the narrative are good. It was easy to binge after the first six episodes (which are a bit rough). The plot is Slow Burn, and there are long hiatuses between the release of 'chapters,' which are 4-5 episodes each.

Solid voice acting and production values but dull plot with characters I couldn't bring myself to like nor care about.

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