paularize's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
4.5
Reasons why you should listen to Hello from the Hallowoods:
(or read, link below)
- it features a bunch of queer people in a spooky forest, what could you possibly want more
- overarching plot that slowly unfolds as you get to know the characters
- horror but like, in a comforting and hopeful way (this will make sense, I promise)
- personally i didn't find it very scary the way i would react to other scary media but more in a campfire spooky vibe, identity crisis and occasional existential dread kind of way if that makes sense
- there are A LOT of very lovable characters
- there's a nonbinary frankenstein-ish person called Diggory Graves that falls in love for the first time and not to be dramatic but I would die for them
-post-apocalyptic setting in the near-ish future
- anticapitalist motives
- it made me cry during the first episode because it made me feel so much
- there's a wlw with a baseball bat!
- found family
- the narrator has a nice voice
- sometimes gets weirdly specific and feels like a direct slap in the face
- yearning!
- older queer people
- basically narrated like an audiobook if multiple voices aren't your thing (or you could just read it)
- the monologues at the end feel like staring directly into the sun while slowly ascending to the sky
- even MORE found family
- hello would you like to feel every possible human emotion all at once?
Anyways, you can listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or read the entirety of the transcripts here: https://www.hellofromthehallowoods.com/transcripts
(or read, link below)
- it features a bunch of queer people in a spooky forest, what could you possibly want more
- overarching plot that slowly unfolds as you get to know the characters
- horror but like, in a comforting and hopeful way (this will make sense, I promise)
- personally i didn't find it very scary the way i would react to other scary media but more in a campfire spooky vibe, identity crisis and occasional existential dread kind of way if that makes sense
- there are A LOT of very lovable characters
- there's a nonbinary frankenstein-ish person called Diggory Graves that falls in love for the first time and not to be dramatic but I would die for them
-post-apocalyptic setting in the near-ish future
- anticapitalist motives
- it made me cry during the first episode because it made me feel so much
- there's a wlw with a baseball bat!
- found family
- the narrator has a nice voice
- sometimes gets weirdly specific and feels like a direct slap in the face
- yearning!
- older queer people
- basically narrated like an audiobook if multiple voices aren't your thing (or you could just read it)
- the monologues at the end feel like staring directly into the sun while slowly ascending to the sky
- even MORE found family
- hello would you like to feel every possible human emotion all at once?
Anyways, you can listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or read the entirety of the transcripts here: https://www.hellofromthehallowoods.com/transcripts
Content Warnings
Graphic: Religious bigotry
Moderate: Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Murder, and Transphobia
Minor: Animal death
Spoiler
Occasional themes of eco-horror and existential dread
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