Best Messy Crit Productions Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 12 - Pain is the Worst Teacher 1:05:19

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CW: Mentions of Alcohol and Drugs “It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show from happiness. We learn so little from peace.” -Chuck Palahniuk The Nobodies know where the journals came from, the O’Dowd residence. So they make their way over there to meet Claire and learn more about her family. M…

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Episode 11 - Like A Beach At Low Tide 1:23:17

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CW: Alcohol, Sexual Situations “And the more hurt she gets, the more venomous she grows.” - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights For the moment the Nobodies retreat back to their corners. Lola hits the bar, Mason makes a phone call, Haven breaks down, and Penny helps a friend. After they take the night to cool down they come back together to figure out …

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Episode 10 - Questions Better Left Unasked 1:11:11

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CW: Threats of Violence “Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.” - Kait Rokowski A phone call changes everything for The Nobodies, Wren reaches out with a development about the journals. This has the hunters scrambling as they try and peel back the mystery and see …

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Episode 9: You Can't Turn Back Now 1:12:25

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CW: Discussions of Death, Stalking “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” - Fydor Dostoevsky The Nobodies come back together when Penny learns of more journals, and the mystery of Saga Abernathy grows. They dive into trying to figure out what is in these books, but now that they know the true …

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Episode 8: Something To Feel 1:04:41

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CW: Drugs, Alcohol, Discussions of Sex 'Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of Rage? Because you are full of grief.’ - Anne Carson, Grief Lessons. Lola and Mason deal with the trauma of facing the wraith in their own ways. Lola hits up a party with Alina and Xav, while Mason hits the riptide. Even still, they cann…

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Episode 7: A Moment To Breathe 1:02:14

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CW: Discussions of Death “Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.” - Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos. They survived their first hunt, the Slasher of Marlin Bay will no longer hurt anyone. The banishing of Paul Ashdown leaves more questions, like who was controlling him and what was with the strange book Kameron …

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Episode 6: The Way Fire Tempers Steel 1:01:16

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CW: Car accidents, Violence, Injuries ‘Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.’ - Ernest Hemmingway It's time - the group finally moves to confront the wraith. Maybe just not in the way they originally wanted. With Paul Ashdown’s journal in hand they know how to stop him, they need to find and de…

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Episode 5: Nothing Stays Buried Forever 1:19:04

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CW: Funerals, Dealing with Grief “Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. You will never be here again” Homer, The Illiad It's time to say goodbye to Kameron, we arrive at Ashdown Manor for the funeral. Penny goes to say goodbye, Lola meets someone else from Boston, Mason and Haven do some sn…

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Episode 4: Grief Comes In Waves 1:25:22

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CW: Discussions of Grief, Funerals ‘I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul’ - Bram Stoker, Dracula Having survived that horrible night the cell heads to their separate corners for a bit. Penny has a meeting with a friend, Mason and Leo grow closer, Lola works her day job, and Ha…

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Episode 3: Family History 59:19

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CW: Injuries, References to Drugs, Panic attacks ‘Remembering is only a new form of suffering’ - Charles Baudelaire Leo arrives just a little too late, leaving the Cell recovering after their encounter with the Wraith. Penny tends to her wounds, Mason helps Leo, Lola tries to get herself under control, and Haven tries to bury her head in the sand. …

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Episode 2: Cut Me Open 1:04:32

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CW: Violence, Possible NPC Death ‘It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane’ - Philip K Dick, Valis The Cell races across town to save Julian, it can’t be a coincidence that he’s attacked less than a day after Kameron. Are they ready to come face to face with The Marlin Bay Slasher? Akii as Penelope Gurung-Ishida - https://lin…

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Episode 1: The Body 1:33:56

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CW: Death of a Friend, References to Drugs and Alcohol, References to Sex ‘There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.’ - Mary Shelley, Frankenstien The cell wakes up on a Saturday after a night of partying to find one of their usual group missing. Not thinking too much of it they head out for breakfast hoping to meet up with …