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Archive 81
Date: 2020-08-01 06:41 pm (UTC)Media: Podcast
Approx length: 35 episodes split into seasons. Season one episodes are around 15 minutes each, season two 40 minutes each, and in three up to an hour.
Where to find it: Available on all major podcast apps. Their website Archive 81 has links.
What is it, in summary? The creators describe it as "a found footage horror podcast about ritual, stories, and sound." The first season revolves around Dan Powell being hired to transfer some archived cassette tapes to digital. The tapes are interviews of people living in a strange apartment building in the 90s. As the story progresses, we learn that the building might be alive and there's a cult trying to use its power. The second season follows Dan once again, only now he's in an alternate dimension dealing with eldritch beings. The third season is set in New York and is about two half siblings, Nicholas and Christine, following a ritual their dead father invented.
What do you love about it? The soundscaping! More than any other fictional podcast I've listened to, Archive 81 puts an emphasis on sound design. This is an in universe consideration as well. The extradimensional beings in the show are best identified by the music that accompanies them. Though out clips of interviews, museum tour guides, advertisements, and answering machine messages are used. The fun part for me is that you're not told initially which of these is important and which are just flavor. Characters and ideas reemerge episodes or seasons later. There's an emphasis on the idea that the act of being listened to gives you power. There's even a character that only has a physical body when he's being recorded.
The characters are also very fun. Season two in particular is my favorite. It starts with some horrific body horror. Dan has been kidnapped and is being turned into something half machine. The doctor is a weird little guy that eventually picks the name "Rat." What I love is that Dan never hates Rat. And Rat talks about loving his creation and is excited for Dan to learn to enjoy his new body. It's a wonderfully weird dynamic. There's a third character with them, Suit, who is another of Rat's experiments and slowly regains her humanity through the season. The contrast between her hatred of Rat and what she's been made into versus Dan's friendship or almost love for Rat despite everything makes things tense as they're dealing with some bigger issues like the weird dimension they're stuck in being ruled by leviathans that want to kill them. There's more characters of course and a lot of strangeness and terror but the central relationship I'm into is those three.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it? Season two is the most interesting one to me and Dan/Rat is my pairing of choice. The dynamic of a mad scientist in love with his experiment is really fun.
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfill your requests? Dan is the main character of seasons one and two.
Content warnings: Graphic violence and gore throughout including animal death. Characters are subjected to verbal and medical abuse.