Comments on: Episode 199: Bells

By: Smuggins

Smuggins — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 23:19:13 +0000

The story in this was just awful. Everything else was well done, acting, foley, pacing. I thought the husband was spot on with his impatience about her psychic abilities. It is such a pathology about her abilities, that I got really tired of her talking about it all the time.

Plus, psychic abilities and guardian angels are usually two very different camps. Psychic power comes from within, while guardian angels are divine protection. Very weird to have someone that combines them.

This story would have made a lot more sense if she doesn’t mention psychic abilities at all, and just brought home the wrong newspaper. There could even have been a discussion about how she got the wrong paper, which could have brought up the guardian angel not working, etc. Or even have the husband find the rental. The current story has the wife be both the cause and solution to the problem. Ugh.

By: Smuggins

Smuggins — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 23:12:24 +0000

In reply to Jessica. Ya, the radio announcer talking on end about it and invoking providence just really brought me out of it. I guess they didn't think it would land otherwise?

By: Smuggins

Smuggins — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 23:10:56 +0000

In reply to Nathan. I, literally, could not agree more with you. The story is just nonsensical.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 21:33:02 +0000

You guys talked me into this one, I was all set to give it a hard “MEH” because I got hung up on the guardian angel sending them to a house just to save the day? What? And then she’s going to sell them shares in a pyramid scheme? I don’t trust this guardian angel, but okay, fine, you talked me into it. I do like any story that involves creepy/sinister/ghostly/murderous children, and the voices were well-done on that end.
I’m glad you guys talked about the CBS Radio News commercial, I thought that was so great. And speaking of radio, I LOVED the overly-explainey radio announcer at the end, explaining about the lightning strike? Was radio news really that descriptive back then? I don’t know, but I delighted in just how much information dude was imparting about a rural house that suffered a lightning strike.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 01:55:08 +0000

LOVE your show but disliked “Bells” so much. It made no sense. Why did the guardian angel take them to a haunted house in the first place?! And it meant nothing! Nothing was revealed about the human condition, it was just plot driven suspense, which would be okay if they plot didn’t have a huge hole in it. I usually agree with you fellas, but not on this one.