Just the right mix of mystery, ambience, good character writing, and voice acting.

I am binging this show right now and I am fatally hooked. I'm a huge sucker for stories about time travel and boy does this podcast deliver. The fact that it's only voiced by one person (as far as I e listened) is incredible. Does it get a little contrived at points because of that? Sure, but it's worth suspending your disbelief. The sound design is wonderfully immersive too.

If you're looking for something to fill the void that The Magnus Archives has left, this is a decent stopgap. Though only 2 seasons at the time of this review, it has built up an intriguing plot that's equal parts mystery, alternate history, science fiction, and horror. Not the sort of personal horror The Magnus Archives describes, but rather a more collective horror about the potential for any singular event to bring about vast changes in history or even then end of the human race.The story is told through voice narration of an archivist, whose job is to describe artifacts in detail while prepping them for storage. The specific oddities of some of these items cause him to wonder about their impossible origins. The narration is spectacular, the writing is compelling, and the production value is high.