There’s a lot to like in this audio drama. Production is quality, acting is good, story and mystery are compelling, and the theme exploring generational wealth is creatively approached. I would recommend this audio drama but I have a major caveat. Trying to fit this narrative into the found recording/faux trued crime podcast within a podcast genre really undermines what otherwise would be a very good audio drama. That I am supposed to believe that this would be a podcast or anything that looks like an actual podcast in our world is stretched way too far. Examples are perfect audio surviving being submerged in water, being in the middle of natural catastrophes, happening while someone is sleeping or fighting, numerous recordings of extremely personal conversations, within a secret society nonetheless, happening between multiple characters agreeing to wear lav mics they rarely shut off, is just too much. The lead being an investigative podcaster could have been an aspect of the greater audio drama without pretending the whole audio drama itself is contained within a published true crime podcast. For me, it just led to constant cognitive dissonance every episode; however, to its credit, I tuned in to every episode because the mystery and acting were good. Seemingly inspired by predecessors like Tanis or The Black Tapes, I feel the creators excitedly and bravely committed to this framework ignoring the overwhelming limitations for their story where it works against it constantly. Just like a book, it’s ok to have your protagonist recount their efforts or include multiple points of view without trying to pretend they are writing an unedited magazine piece even if they’re a journalist. We don’t need to pretend other characters are wearing lav mics 24/7. The faux podcast angle always limits an audio drama and the gimmick is only temporarily clever. Another listener may be able to get over it and suspend the disbelief beyond just the supernatural story aspects. Perhaps they can justify in their mind that some people would behave this way around being recorded and audio recording technology would invincibly and perfectly operate as such. I tried but couldn’t. For me, the second star gets knocked off for character arcs that were undermined by an ending that didn’t take us that far from our beginnings, despite some pretty dramatic stuff going down. Having said all that, I would totally check out another audio drama from this crew or a season 2 if it is not in the faux true crime podcast framework. If there is a next season I encourage creators to just make it a regular audio drama. The cast and production are good so do check it out. Again, another listener may be able to get past the unbelievable contortions taken to get it to fit the faux true-crime podcast framework but it was just too much of a block for me to really enjoy it as much as I could have.