The Lesser Dead Review: A Proper Horror Drama Podcast at Last!

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The Lesser Dead Review: A Proper Horror Drama Podcast at Last!
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Wondery's TheLesserDead is a horror podcast series about vampires in a grimy & gritty 1970s NYC, with star-studded performances from a cast that includes JackKilmer and MinnieDriver: Review / WonderyMedia driverminnie

is the latest drama podcast series to stake a claim in the horror genre. There have been crime thrillers, Science Fiction, and dramas – some that dip their toes into Horror, butis a vampire story that takes no prisoners and makes sure the listener knows that this is real horror, not a light bit of escapism with jump scares but a deep dive into tragedy, loss, and despair.Wondery was right to adaptabout vampires in 1978 New York City.

giving it all in his first leading role as a sympathetic and flawed lead trying to bring himself to finally do the right thing.has an equally complex character to play, fierce, equally flawed, and wounded by past tragedy and loss.is fun as the fatherly but slippery vampire who may be more devious than he lets on, andHorror is Not About Happy Endings

Vampires are not glamourous or good people. Joey Peacock knows this, and so do all his fellow vampires, even as he dreams of atonement, but he doesn't deserve a happy ending, and you shouldn't expect one. The horror and tragedy are how unhappy and terrible his and his found family's ending is going be, and you listen hopelessly as it unfolds like a trap that they were always in, that finally closes on them now from an unexpected but unsurprisingly source.

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