Michael Hancock

Best of the best

Revisado: 05-08-23

I have been listening to Exeter for years now - I first heard the show when it was a single season and loved it at first listen. The two leads I knew from their earlier work. I remember when I first placed Det. Pruitt's voice as the Reverend from HBO's Deadwood and thought, "What an amazing cast!" Every instance where he says "CO-lleen" warms the cockles of my heart. There is not enough fiction set in rural Appalachia without dipping into every coal-miner stereotype.

The relationships are what sell this series. The brother-sister duo of Leland (Lyle Kanouse) and Colleen Clayton (Jeanne Triplehorn), the adversarial cop relationship of Det. Lester Pruitt (Ray McKinnon) and his superior Lt. Colleen Clayton, and the engaging way these main players interact with the side characters: Housecat (Marcus Henderson) at the Tipsy Gypsy, the suprisingly capable Deputy Travis (Mateus Ward), and the warmly played police chief Capt. Woodruff (Richard Doyle).

The murder mysteries of the first two seasons were lovingly intertwined such that I despaired that Writer-Director-Producer Ronnie Gunter could capture lightning in a bottle THREE TIMES. (I should mention that it's arguable that the best parts of Seasons 1 and 2 were the delightfully skuzzy performances by Ronnie Gunter as "Boy Eunice" Fowler.

In the limbo between AMC's running the show and Audible picking it up for the Third Season, I missed Exeter dearly. In an age where we do not get to "own" our media, it's a terrible shock when you go to re-listen to your favorite podcast and find it completely unavailable, wiped clean from the internet...

If this was available as a physical purchase, I would pick it up tomorrow. (A set of 6 LPs? Ha!)

The only thing I miss was the original vision for an animated, performed screenplay... but you can't have it all.

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Bizarrely bad

Revisado: 02-05-22

The author has concocted something akin to a Skinemax thriller for the ears, with a similar amount of attention to detail... which is to say, perfect attention to sexual and interpersonal details and zero to the setting or reality of where the action takes place. I tried to give the show my whole attention, but there were constantly unrealistic bits arousing from the creator's obvious ignorance of the reality of the setting. Even making the lead an unrealistically attractive, depressed-yet-horny bisexual woman could not make me care to listen.

It's not a good sign when a thriller makes you laugh out loud. Thanks for the laughs, Kirsty Logan

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Perfect for my 8 year old

Revisado: 08-15-20

My daughters enjoyed this book as a nighttime listening ritual. The characters captivated and the cliffhangers between certain chapters kept than engaged.

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