sticky: "rec me" and "my recs"

[aphrodite_mine]

I'm trying to start collecting things I recommend under the tag recs [<-- clickable]

I'm Looking For:

Audio Dramas

1. Not sci-fi or horror (magical realism is okay, elements of these are okay)
2. Not narrated
3. Not behind a paywall
4. Female protagonists
5. Available on a podcast feed, rather than a website or library

Examples I've Enjoyed: Blood Ties, Passenger List, Sandra


Televisions Shows (including non-English-language)

1. Available on Netflix US, Hulu, Peacock, HBO Max, Viki US, Tubi US or a free streaming service
2. No (or very limited) hetero romance
3. Mystery, drama is a plus
4. Female main character isn't mandatory, but please at least some major female characters
5. I enjoy a procedural as long as there is a good overarching plot

Authors

1. Female protagonists
2. Veers into dark themes fearlessly
3. Touches of magical realism welcome

Examples I've Enjoyed: Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Aimee Bender, Shirley Jackson

Comments

[senmut]

This looks like a great project! Good Luck!

[gloss]

I'm pretty sure that Kim's Convenience is on US Netflix, and I recommend it! There is some hetero romance, but tbh I skip all those scenes anyway.

[aphrodite_mine]

Belated, but DEFINITELY need to get back to Kim's Convenience! We liked the first few episodes a lot!

some AD recs

[shipperslist]

I took this as a personal challenge because usually, sci-fi and horror are my jam. But.

#Arden
A movie star and heiress crashed her car, walked into a nearby clearing, and vanished. 10 years later, reporter Be a Casely and private detective Brenda Bentley want to find out what happened. They're pretty much forced to work together, each convinced the other will screw everything up. Add in an eccentric multibillionaire who Just Wants To Help and you have a story that's both endearing and hilarious. My personal favorites: in-show ads that decline rapidly into the uncanny land as the show progresses. Two seasons out.

#Sage and Savant
A laboratory accident leads to the accidental discovery of time travel (or transmigration, as they call it), Doctor Petronella Sage and her faithful friend and companion Erasmus Savant seize the opportunity. Four seasons out, complete. I should add that I absolutely love how they make it very clear that Savant loves Sage and she knows that, she says no, and Savant respects that. This might skim a bit too close on sci-fi, I know.

#Within the Wires
Stories told through found audio from an alternate universe. Four seasons that at first seem unrelated but are actually tied together. You said not narrated which...this sort of bends it? S1 is a collection of relaxation tapes (but not), S2 is an audio tour through an artists work (and so much more), s3 is a bunch of dictated letters... It's a strange bunch and took me a couple of tries to listen but I'm absolutely in love with it now.

#It Makes A Sound
Deirdre Gardner finds a lost cassette tape from 1992 from the attic and embarks on a quest to revive the sound of a generation. It's a musical audio drama about memory and what we do and don't remember. Heartbreaking in a way but lovely, warm, family-oriented. I probably couldn't be able to listen to it now, considering my father's advanced Alzheimer's.

(These are set on post-apocalyptic world so they might not be what you're looking for but I'm reccing them anyway: Elaine's Cooking For The Soul and Earth Break.)

Also, hi, here via the circle meme. :D

Re: some AD recs

[aphrodite_mine]

HOLY HECK THESE SOUND AMAZING. Thank you for taking the time to write these up and think them out, and I'm very very emotional about it! Energized to clear my current queue so I can line some of these up.

Re: some AD recs

[shipperslist]

You're welcome! Also, feel free to check my audiodrama/podcast tag for anything else that might interest you.