While you wouldn't have known it from the Golden Globes podcast nominations this year, audio fiction podcasts are largely a province of independent podcasting. While large podcast networks like Spotify have not figured out how to recoup their considerable investment in audio fiction, innovative indie podcasters have found that sweet spot between creative innovation and financial prudence.
The premise is simple, deceptively so. When their brother is trapped in a terrifying dreamscape, Dominic and Caleb risk their minds and their lives to pull him back. The show is a limited series told in four episodes.
The show blends elements of dreams, alternate reality, paranormal forces, and brotherly love into a nightmarish hellscape where nothing seems real, but the stakes are all too real. The word, Liminal, is defined in two ways. First, occupying a position at, or both sides of, a boundary or threshold. Second, relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process. That's the locus of the concept of this audio fiction masterpiece. It's to Netflix's Stranger Things show's core concept of the Upside Down, a dark, parallel dimension mirroring our own, and more recently, a new documentary offering an inside look at the series finale
Michael Alan Herman writes, “We have always been deeply inspired by
the unnerving feeling of liminal spaces; they seem to be both comforting
and deeply unsettling at the same time, and we set out to make a show
that gives you that spine-crawling sensation.”
The podcast stars Isaac
Jay (Head Count, Lessons in Chemistry), Daniel Santillana
(Silvertongues), and Jeannine Thompson (Star Trek: Horizon).
Director and co-writer Josie Eli Herman adds, “Against this intriguing backdrop of horror, sci-fi, and mystery, the characters are the true centerpiece of the show. The actors of Liminal have some of the best performances we’ve featured in the VoidVerse to date.”
Who are the
mad scientists mixing beakers of plot, character, action, suspense,
conflict, eerie agitation, and space-time disorientation?
Josie Eli Herman is the founder of Acorn Arts and Entertainment. She is a multi-avenue artist with a background in theater and fine art.
Some of her greatest passions are directing for theater and film, acting, photography, and portrait painting.
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