Approx length: 14 episodes of about 30 minutes each (so far)
Where to find it: Wherever you get your podcasts
What is it, in summary?: Like the title says, the world has gone . . . strange, and often wrong. Werewolves and vampires are real now, there's an extra hour in the day, and the acid rain will literally melt your car.
Naturally, someone's podcasting about it. Our hosts are Jamie and Malik, late twentysomething friends who fill us in on all the latest weird events and how they're coping. Or not.
You might not believe it from this description, but the show is very funny. The humor's often pretty dark, of course. But this is a story about life going on, and sometimes being okay, even as the world falls apart.
What do you love about it?: I love Jamie and Malik and their friendship and banter. World Gone Wrong is a scripted show, but their interactions often feels spontaneous and off-the-cuff, in a good way.
The worldbuilding is really interesting too. So far (with one very notable exception) the monsters have been familiar from ancient myths or modern ones, but where the show's creativity (and its insight) shines is its focus on how these things play out in a world of podcasting and TikTok and Uber. I love its mix of the weird and the all-too-common: if that extra hour occurs during your work day, do you get overtime? What if you can't get along with the ghost in your apartment? Is it discriminatory to schedule events for the full moon? And how can you get your grant application finished with all this going on?
Also, the show has oodles of queer characters--most of them, actually.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Probably gen, with a focus on worldbuilding and/or character exploration. To me it's not a particularly shippy show, at least thus far, though there's potential between Jamie and a minor character.
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: Not really, but it's not a very long canon.
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): The horror content is actually very light, and there's no gore. It's mostly scary by implication. But I would note that a lot of the show's concerns extrapolate from things that actually happened in the Covid pandemic, so if that's a triggery subject for you, you may want to avoid. Covid is mentioned by name once or twice.
World Gone Wrong (Podcast)
Media: Audio drama podcast
Approx length: 14 episodes of about 30 minutes each (so far)
Where to find it: Wherever you get your podcasts
What is it, in summary?: Like the title says, the world has gone . . . strange, and often wrong. Werewolves and vampires are real now, there's an extra hour in the day, and the acid rain will literally melt your car.
Naturally, someone's podcasting about it. Our hosts are Jamie and Malik, late twentysomething friends who fill us in on all the latest weird events and how they're coping. Or not.
You might not believe it from this description, but the show is very funny. The humor's often pretty dark, of course. But this is a story about life going on, and sometimes being okay, even as the world falls apart.
What do you love about it?: I love Jamie and Malik and their friendship and banter. World Gone Wrong is a scripted show, but their interactions often feels spontaneous and off-the-cuff, in a good way.
The worldbuilding is really interesting too. So far (with one very notable exception) the monsters have been familiar from ancient myths or modern ones, but where the show's creativity (and its insight) shines is its focus on how these things play out in a world of podcasting and TikTok and Uber. I love its mix of the weird and the all-too-common: if that extra hour occurs during your work day, do you get overtime? What if you can't get along with the ghost in your apartment? Is it discriminatory to schedule events for the full moon? And how can you get your grant application finished with all this going on?
Also, the show has oodles of queer characters--most of them, actually.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Probably gen, with a focus on worldbuilding and/or character exploration. To me it's not a particularly shippy show, at least thus far, though there's potential between Jamie and a minor character.
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: Not really, but it's not a very long canon.
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): The horror content is actually very light, and there's no gore. It's mostly scary by implication. But I would note that a lot of the show's concerns extrapolate from things that actually happened in the Covid pandemic, so if that's a triggery subject for you, you may want to avoid. Covid is mentioned by name once or twice.