FANDOM NAME: Sapphire & Steel WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Picture 1970s Doctor Who with even less budget and even less explanation. Sapphire & Steel is a British tv show about two inter-dimensional agents who try to stop incursions of something from breaking into our world via anachronisms. The show is very atmospheric and does a wonderful job creating this feeling of creeping dread via lighting tricks, nursery rhymes, so much focus on atmosphere, and lots of staring at evil. WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): Youtube, baby! Sapphire & Steel is split up into six assignments, multi-part serials ranging from four to eight twenty-five(ish) minute episodes. Some kind soul on Youtube has edited all the assignments down into full-length features, taking out cliffhangers. Each assignment is relatively stand alone, but start with Assignment 2.
FANDOM NAME: Confessions of Dorian Gray WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: It's an audio-drama Picture of Dorian Gray AU fanfiction. The general consensus is this: what if Dorian Gray didn't die at the end of PODG and instead spent the next hundred or so years in what's basically a supernatural monster of the week story? The episodes are relatively stand-alone, with Dorian meeting a new guest star (occasionally played by a Doctor Who actor) and/or facing a new monster each episode. The series is also massively tropey and features vampire boyfriends, a bodyswap episode, a Sherlock Holmes crossover, identity porn, the gang forms a band, an episode that's nonstop whump, werewolves, and the world's worst drug trip.
As a note, this series has a LOT of trigger warnings including, but not limited to: body horror, gore, dubious consent, drug use, sexual assault, torture, suicide, stalking, eye trauma, war & war-related PTSD, etc. If you're interested but there's a massive trigger you don't want to deal with, PM me and I can tell you if or where it shows up! WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): Spotify! You can buy downloads or CD copies from Big Finish's website but, at least for USA listeners, the series is streaming on Spotify. Keep in mind that not all of the series is streaming: Series 5 and the free, stand alone episodes aren't streaming. As a listening note, Series 1, 2, and 4 consist entirely of stand-alone episodes. Series 3 is a continuation, picking up where 2.5 left off, Series 4.2 (The Spirits of Christmas) picks up where Series 3 left off, and Series 5 focuses on characters featured in previous seasons.
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WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Picture 1970s Doctor Who with even less budget and even less explanation. Sapphire & Steel is a British tv show about two inter-dimensional agents who try to stop incursions of something from breaking into our world via anachronisms. The show is very atmospheric and does a wonderful job creating this feeling of creeping dread via lighting tricks, nursery rhymes, so much focus on atmosphere, and lots of staring at evil.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): Youtube, baby! Sapphire & Steel is split up into six assignments, multi-part serials ranging from four to eight twenty-five(ish) minute episodes. Some kind soul on Youtube has edited all the assignments down into full-length features, taking out cliffhangers. Each assignment is relatively stand alone, but start with Assignment 2.
FANDOM NAME: Confessions of Dorian Gray
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: It's an audio-drama Picture of Dorian Gray AU fanfiction. The general consensus is this: what if Dorian Gray didn't die at the end of PODG and instead spent the next hundred or so years in what's basically a supernatural monster of the week story? The episodes are relatively stand-alone, with Dorian meeting a new guest star (occasionally played by a Doctor Who actor) and/or facing a new monster each episode. The series is also massively tropey and features vampire boyfriends, a bodyswap episode, a Sherlock Holmes crossover, identity porn, the gang forms a band, an episode that's nonstop whump, werewolves, and the world's worst drug trip.
As a note, this series has a LOT of trigger warnings including, but not limited to: body horror, gore, dubious consent, drug use, sexual assault, torture, suicide, stalking, eye trauma, war & war-related PTSD, etc. If you're interested but there's a massive trigger you don't want to deal with, PM me and I can tell you if or where it shows up!
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): Spotify! You can buy downloads or CD copies from Big Finish's website but, at least for USA listeners, the series is streaming on Spotify. Keep in mind that not all of the series is streaming: Series 5 and the free, stand alone episodes aren't streaming. As a listening note, Series 1, 2, and 4 consist entirely of stand-alone episodes. Series 3 is a continuation, picking up where 2.5 left off, Series 4.2 (The Spirits of Christmas) picks up where Series 3 left off, and Series 5 focuses on characters featured in previous seasons.