6/25/2023 0 Comments Archive 81![]() I listened to the entire thing, and it wasn’t really like anything else I’ve listened to this year. Melody is a queer woman, refreshing to discover, but made the weird anti-woman sentiment of the male conversations seem even more off-key. Horror podcasts like Alice Isn't Dead, or The Black Tapes – or even stranger ones that live in the same realm, like Within The Wires or Welcome To Night Vale – make efforts to sidestep the misogynistic tropes that have for so long governed this genre of storytelling and invoked considered representations of people who aren't just straight dudes. ![]() Three layers of storytelling all pasted over each other gives this podcast a really great, spiralling feeling and evokes wonderful horror at times.įree from the constraints of cinema or television, in many ways they are the last punk rock medium, in which creators are – if they are wily enough – able to do anything they want without interference from any existing establishment. The last layer is Mark, who we only hear from at the end of each episode and who informs us that Dan, his best friend, has gone missing, has sent him these tapes, and he needs to find him. It sounds a lot like a regular high rise in a big city, but each interview Melody conducts is like a little episode of The X-Files. It’s a place where people go missing, never to be remembered, where drug dealers and club kids homebrew strange substances, where people confide in Melody that the faces of the people they know disappear. The second is Melody, who exists within these tapes, and interviews the residents of the XYZ building in the mid 1990s. The primary story is about Dan, who has been hired as an archivist to record his findings on a set of tapes that deal with a mysterious building in New York. ![]() It is a collage-form horror story that has three layered narratives, easily identifiable on top of one another. Over the course of a three-hour hike, I listened to every single episode of the first season of Archive 81.
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