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Review of A Handful of Dust by sircarolyn

20 January 2025

This review contains spoilers!

The first time I listened to this boxset, the comment I made was 'The Irverfield is one of the funniest names for a thing I have ever heard. The best thing about the boxset'. And I was right. And 'Irverfield' isn't even that funny.

This story calls for 'an archaeologist' to head to a planet that is alive or something and has two creepy dust children or something and there's also a paranormal hunter there too for some reason. It's remeniscent of Iris Wildthyme: High Spirits except at least that episode is actually funny. I feel like this episode tries for humour, and falls completely flat. All the characters were completely unengaging to me, and even Benny herself I felt was just plodding through the motions.

I think we were meant to feel sorry for the two planet children of dust or whatever they were, but honestly I was over them when we started with the naked jokes and totally tapped out by the end. And I think the conwoman paranormal videographer was supposed to be funny, but she was mostly just a bit irritating.

If I remember rightly, this boxset doesn't get any better either. Sigh.