#Wooden Overcoats spoilers

[michaelmylove]

as an avid TMA fan hearing Rudyard described as an archivist gave me whiplash and a whole new fear

[ducessaeva]

putting the funn in funerals

[bekaterrier]

Happy Audio Drama Sunday! I listened to a few things this week (gushing and spoilers ahead):

@woodenovercoats S4: You know it's going to be a good season when it's already got me tearing up in the third episode! Madeline and her family!! 😭 Madeline and Rudyard besties! 🥰 I absolutely loved seeing Antigone continue to grow this season. She just wanted to be seen, to know she was strong enough to be seen, and she was!! We also got to hear Rudyard give more time to his life outside the funeral home, particularly his special interest in history! We finally got Chapman's backstory! Heartbreaking though. 💔 Holy shit that sound design when Chapman and Rudyard go over the falls was *chef's kiss*. My first thought re: the Funns running Chapman's was "Oh lord, how is Rudyard going to F this up?" It was really nice to hear them actually properly put on a funeral like we knew they could. Throughout the season, we heard Eric and Antigone grow closer and some feelings start to develop there. Then hearing Eric calling out for Antigone in his dream was...whew. "Sorry about the chloroform." 😂 Georgie's cycle of grief is so real. It hits you at the most unexpected moments. They're a town!!!! And of course he came back, he's home!!!!! This ending is so perfect, so absolutely satisfying. This show was incredible ♥️

@midstpodcast S1: I've been seeing so much about this show in my feed lately as its third and final season released, so I just had to jump into it. And wow am I hooked! The way the narrators share the story and the character voices between them is fascinating. The world building is absolutely incredible - the visual they painted of the fold sweeping through is just chilling. Combine that with the actual visual elements created by the podcast, seen in the YouTube videos...so so cool. Side note - I hate the Trust; the way that its systems ensure that those at the bottom are kept down, rewarding those already at the top...kudos to another podcast where one of the villains is capitalism. In any case, I was so absorbed in the stories of each of the three protagonists, trying to see ahead to how their lives would intersect, I almost forgot about the very first scene! The moon falls out of the sky!! Absolutely wild!! I'm very much looking forward to learning more about the consequences of this and the impact on Midst.

@midnightburgr Welcome to the Horizon Part 3 - The Wayfaring Stranger: God I love this town and these people. I laughed out loud so many times this episode! Frank and June's reactions to Verge's background are hilarious. I'm so glad we have Verge in this mini-series. It's also so fun to hear them flirting with Deirdre, especially after hearing their VAs as not so friendly in Moonbase Theta, Out (love you Cat and Tina). The news that we get from Trinkett about the comet is verrry interesting and concerning, so looking forward to seeing where that goes.

@tellnotalespod S1 & S2 (to date) re-listen: TNT is currently on their mid season break, so I re-listened to everything that's been released so far. I said earlier this season that it was going to be tough listening to all the S2 episodes in a row since many of them made me cry individually...and I was right! 😭 I am so looking forward to the rest of S2, and I really hope Leo, Riley and Julia all get the hugs they need, preferably from each other.

@storiesfromylelmore Winter Solstice crowdfunding episode: I love hearing the kids out and up to their shenanigans! It was also really sweet to get a glimpse of the parents doing their thing, but also loving all the kids (even though Elas can sometimes be puce). I also loved hearing more about their world's Winter Solstice story! The worldbuilding is so fantastic.

@hinaypod Episode 41 - Danny Boy (Pride Episode 2024): I'm glad I listened to this one during the day because I definitely would have gotten creeped out by some of the curse's descriptions if I'd listened at 2AM, as I sometimes do. We got quite lore dump on our favourite horrible old man, but I still have so many questions!!

[saltyloafy]

I'm on the final episode of wooden overcoats and I've somehow managed to avoid blogging about it until this moment, but I HAVE to say this before I get soiled with context.

SPOILERS FOR THE FINAL EP OF WOODEN OVERCOATS (S4E10:A Funn Farewell)

eric in his dream saying to antigone the operator that he quote "loved her from the first syllable" and that he was yelling desperately for her to come back because she's the only one who understands.... so romantic and so devastating. it's been so sweet watching chapman fall for antigone it's so lovely and I love THEM and I love this PODCAST, ALL OF YOU! I COMMAND YOU TO LISTEN TO WOODEN OVERCOATS!!

[glockmonkey]

nothing like relistening to the wovercoats finale to make you go a bit crazy huh

[squeeneypod]

/slips you a piece of paper that says "eric chapman is aro trust me"/

some talk of post-finale under the cut

i dont have a big post to make about this with Receipts but im a very big fan of eric chapman going on a date with antigone, both of them realizing that it's not really something they want in practice with each other (antigone can go kiss girls somewhere i think for fun, insert "the feeling was friendship" etc etc), and eric continuing his journey of unlearning his Need For People to Like Him

he spends the whole series sort of throwing himself at romantic prospects with various degrees of failure and even details at least one attempt at trying to get a woman to date him by learning Mouse, a Learnable Lanuage (this did not work)

and while he comes around to the idea of not needing to be perfect in order to be cared for, i think the guy can go one step further and figure out that maybe. his desire for romantic relationships. was just an extension of that intense need to be Liked

once he and antigone go out once and realize friendships/colleagues is the best way for them to be around each other, it's time for eric chapman to have another mini crisis because he really thought this time it would work out

anyway i pick up rudyard and eric. both of them are stupid and want people to like them, but one is incredibly ready to throw that out the window for personal gain and the other was terrified of people knowing he might have one (1) flaw. "other people are all there is" (resigned) and "other people are all there is" (ecstatic). rudyard physically shoves him back home. i think they should be aro at each other from across the street while everyone else is making out. madeline is also there

[faithful-grigori]

”#this is like. THE gimmick of s1 wooden overcoats, #the easier pitch is 'rival funeral homes' bc 1) simple 2) better description of the show as a whole, #but s1 is just constantly hearing about bizarre deaths and knowing theres a billion funerals daily on this tiny island, #but bc of the genre YOU think its in it doesnt tend to register as Important until someone says 'hey i think theres a murderer around'”

currently obsessed with british murder mystery tv shows where all the murders happen in the same town in every episode and everyone's just like oh yep there goes another one, just another day in shirefordtonstead

[michaelmylove]

hey I thought wooden overcoats was a fucking comedy so why am I in the middle of class trying not to bawl my eyes out huh. explain that

[ducessaeva]

(i’ll do anything. just five more minutes)

[lesbian-jack-barnabas]

I’m so sorry but the only other thing I know Beth Eyre from is Wooden Overcoats, so until we learn otherwise I believe that Sam and Alice accidentally released Antigone Funn onto the world from her archival prison

[faithful-grigori]

”#they bicker all the time but they really do care about each other”

thinking about how Antigone mentioned that the only nice thing anyone had ever done for her was her father giving her an extra sprout at Christmas dinner once and how Rudyard made sure that Antigone got extra sprouts during the Christmas episode

[dwarvendiaries]

Realised [ERROR] is played by Beth Eyre and now I can only imagine Antigone Funn with extra eyes and a tape recorder

[fyeahaudiodrama]

oh…

[cirrus-grey]

Introducing Beth Eyre as [Error]

Wait, what?? Meat pit lady???

[faithful-grigori]

”#eric chapman with his dark roots and blond hair, #yeah I’ve been thinking about it#such a good headcanon”

I am a firm “Eric Chapman is not blond” believer, however there is one way I could accept blond Chapman - if he dyes his hair blond. And this headcanon is irreversibly connected with THE Eric scene: “you look devastated” “Of course we do, it’s a funeral”. Imagine Eric looking like wet cat runs to the graveyard and has visible darker roots because he didn’t have how to dye them and that scene happens. Oh, it’s amazing image.

[hezekiahwakely]

ANTIGONE FUNN!?!?!?!?!?!?!