Episode Four of Convergence (Out on the Fringe Podcast)
4.5 out of 5 stars
If you’re unfamiliar with serialized fiction – it’s the idea that you take a story and separate it out into episodes – like a TV show. These are usually released on a website or as a podcast. I’ll be reviewing each episode separately as they come out to provide an episode by episode review of the story. Read my review of Episode One and Episode Two.
Some of my reviews may contain spoilers to past episodes – I’ll try and keep that to a minimum but I can’t guarantee anything.
This line from the opening really hit home, “We had no country. No home”. We’re given a little more about what happened (we lost The White House, we were too distracted with social action to see the attack coming, etc).
The opening of this episode sees Jonah being interrogated by an unknown group. They ask him questions – some that he knows the answer to, a lot more that he doesn’t even understand. He’s tortured and reminded things like “How many Mem’s you done now, a hundred, maybe a thousand?”
There’s a major part that I don’t want to spoil, but I’m not really sure what is going to happen to Jonah. After that scene, we’re taken back to when Jonah and Mesa are in a small commune trying to survive. We’re shown the pre-capture father and daughter – and then we’re shown their capture as well. The capture marks the end of the third episode. The ending line “our war was over” also hit me deep. Hicks was able to really bring some emotion out in this episode – and of course, Travis Baldree brings it home with his awesome performance.
Book Description:
Convergence Episode 3 by Michael Patrick HicksNarrator: Travis Baldree
Length: 45 mins
Series: Convergence #4
Published by Serial Audio on January 26th 2019
Genres: Science Fiction
Also by this author: Revolver, From The Ashes, Mass Hysteria, Consumption
Also in this series: Convergence Episode One, Convergence Episode Two, Convergence Episode Three, Convergence Episode 5
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