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Before “Shipworm” and “36 Questions,” Two-Up creators Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie began with “Limetown.”
The duo started with the idea of a town full of people disappearing.
After, they worked the thought thread into a pilot, which branched off into a two-season audio drama.
“Limetown” went on to become the No. 1 U.S. Podcast on iTunes in less than two months as reported by Vox.
“Limetown“ follows journalist Lia Haddock as she investigates the sudden—and quickly forgotten—disappearance of 300 people in a small Tennessee town.
As the mystery unravels, Lia encounters a conspiracy. This encounter could change everything.
The podcast has two seasons.
The first season launched in 2015. It comprises six main episodes, separated by mini teasers connecting each. The teasers serve as “show updates.”
Season one is very meta with its presentation, going for a found-footage style of storytelling. The recordings are treated as a real podcast in-universe.
The second season, launched in 2018, swaps the meta perspective for a more traditional structure.
In the second, the audience observes two characters as they work through the aftermath of Lia Haddock’s investigation and the fallout of her discoveries.
The season leaves more questions than answers compared to the first and leans heavily into a detective-noir story.
The podcast was adapted into a ten-episode, live-action series starring Jessica Biel and Stanley Tucci.
The series first became available on Facebook Watch but was canceled soon after airing. Unfortunately, this left the second season un-adapted.
The series, nevertheless, has since moved to streaming on Tubi for free.
The show hits almost all the same plot points from the podcast.
It leverages the visual format, however, to show the audience the moments between Lia’s recordings while keeping the podcast segments from the original program. This gives viewers context while simultaneously taking away from the original’s theater-of-the-mind elements.
Instead of imagining the experiences of the interviewees through spoken words only, the show visualizes exactly what happened in mid-interview narrated flashbacks.
Reviews, however, are mixed between the show being a solid binge versus a mediocre attempt at an adaptation.
But, don’t just take our word for it.
Hear for yourself what awaits in “Limetown.” Then, watch how it unfolds on Tubi.
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