Hunter-JE
@Hunter-JE

A few years back I was on a bit of a horror podcast kick and started listening to several. One of the best just dropped its final episode and I just wanted to give a shout-out and recommendation.

Unwell starts with a pretty straightforward premise—a young woman goes back to a small midwest town to stay with her mother after she has had a fall and is beginning to show signs of dementia, but once she arrives she finds things aren't as they seem, with spooky mysterious figures and ghosts and secret cabals and that sort of thing.

But while the horror/supernatural mystery elements are definitely a running driver of the story they often take a backseat to what is also an engaging, heartfelt and bittersweet slice-of-life story about an assortment of misfits going through difficult things together that deals in a respectful and thoughtful way with hard issues like dementia and generational trauma and the legacy of colonialism and a whole bunch of other things.

It's also a story with a lot of queer and poc story representation, and that rep is refreshingly done in a way that uses characters' identity as a part of their whole person and a source of strength and joy rather than only using it as just another screw to turn up the trauma with.

I know big narrative podcasts with years' worth of backlog can be a hard sell, but if you have the time I very strongly recommend giving this one a listen (especially now that you can listen through the whole thing and not worry about cliffhangers when you get caught up!)


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