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Review of The Broken Clock by Seagullslost

27 April 2025

The adventure continues. In this episode the listener finds themselves hearing a US crime documentary. Impossible murders where the victim, recently killed, has been dead for months?

Its does take over fifteen minutes for Missy to enter the story and at first I wasn’t getting into it. I do feel that British should stick to British and US to US, as I’m never really sure if its offensive or not. I know I cringe at US Tv programs with British accents, interestingly enough it does come into play in this.

So as you can imagine it does that docudrama thing of narrating and reenacting the events of the crime. And it is when Missy eventually turns up when the lines between fiction and reality start to blur. Suddenly we’re not sure if the actors recreating the events are actors, since they can hear the narrator and can’t see any cameras. There’s also the added meta of Missy’s interjections that play with Tv tropes.

It does hold your attention, the mystery of whats actually going on, the intrigue of mentions of other characters. I ended up thoroughly enjoying it, it felt longer than an hour, and another listen is in order to fully appreciate it.

Recommended.


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