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Not sure how many people will care about a small fiction podcast, but holy shit, that was awful and I want to vent. Even GoT did a better job. The quick summary is that a radio journalist named Alex Reagan starts doing a story on Richard Strand, a guy who more-or-less professionally debunks stories of the supernatural. The plot kicks off when she discovers the unsolved cases he keeps in black VHS cases: the Black Tapes. It eventually evolves into an extremely complicated plotline about an ancient religious order who believes it can bring on the apocalypse by opening a gateway to hell using music, math, and the Large Hadron Collider. There's even more shit I barely remember, it's really dense and kind of convoluted.

The last episode plays out like a normal episode. Alex and Strand are planning to go to Geneva, but they're warned that it's a trap because the cult needs Strand in some way to bring about the apocalypse. Out of fucking nowhere, Alex's boss asks her if she's going on this trip for journalistic purposes or because she's in love with Strand. In 30 or so episodes, there'd only been one tiny hint that they were into each other. In fact, Strand's motivation for a large portion of the series was finding his wife who he still loved. Which, btw, he got a call saying that the cult was holding her hostage to make sure he comes to Geneva. Sure, that's fine.

But then the ending. Holy shit, the ending. The night before they're supposed to go to Geneva, Alex says that they might not want to go because it's an obvious trap. Strand says that he's not sure he can live without knowing the truth. Standard stuff. But then Alex says that while he has two tickets to Geneva, she bought two to [redacted location] and they could just fuck off and leave it all behind. Their jobs, their search for answers, everything. And then it ends. And that's it. So you just kind of assume they did indeed fuck off and leave it all behind.

Holy shit, I'm mad I listened to that bullshit. If I never hear another ad for Bombas socks, I'll die happy.