I really, really wanted to like this show. It's got a ton of bits I like-- found footage style reports, unidentified material from a dubious source, a host getting mysterious and threatening phone calls... It just didn't come together for me. On their own, each bit is fine. Maybe not exceptional, but solid. But all together, they somehow are less than the sum of their parts. It sets up the expectation that these threads are going to come together into a meta-story, but I got 3/4s of the way through the first season with very little progress toward anything cohesive, and the stories themselves aren't quite enough to hold my interest. Some are fantastic! Ice Cream Man was very cool, and very creepy! There's just not enough setting this show apart from others using the same conventions to keep me coming back. (Since there isn't a way to say something about the show without a star rating, and I have no interest in messing with the findability of the show just because it isn't for me, it's getting 5 stars)

I love this show. I can see how its sense of humor might not be everyone's thing, but it works perfectly for me. The interactions between the characters are authentic, in the like-people-I-know-but-better-scripted way, which is basically what I want most from a show that hinges on the relationships and interactions between the people in it. Wonderful at the slow creep of things getting weirder and weirder, until you look around and have no idea how you got here. My only complaint is that I started listening to it thinking it was finished, and now have to wait for another season to come out to know what happens next.

This is one of the best shows I have listened to, and one of the few that has genuinely horrified me. The characters are fantastic, well-acted, and well-written, but really, it's the world that drew me in and held me. It's... awful. Wonderful. Deeply fascinating. What would a world be like if gods were active, ubiquitous, hungry, powerful, and possibly not even truly sapient? The absolute uncaring nature of the gods in this, and the way that shapes civilization is explored deeply, without info dumping at the audience. The writers take away any polite fictions, and dig in to just how badly something like this could (would?) go, given human nature, even accounting for the existence of good people. I've seen magic framed as divine power before. And I've seen divine power framed as a natural resource. But the way this show looks at the gods themselves is something I've not come across, and it's executed wonderfully. If you like horror, and are willing to actually be horrified, listen.