Mugglecast: The Harry Potter Podcast
Studio: MuggleNet.com & Hypable.com
Category: Literature
What Is It
All things Harry Potter-verse.
Technical Details
A new episode comes out once a week and they tend to run between an hour and an hour-and-a-half. The iTunes archive goes back to 2010 with more than 160 episodes. The show, however, goes all the way back to 2005 and they’ve got a solid archive at the official website.
What About It
You’d be forgiven for thinking a Harry Potter podcast would maybe have dried up a while back or at least slowed down. My friend, you have forgotten the power of franchising. Yes, the book series ended long ago; even the film series ended a substantial bit ago. But there are plays, conventions, spin-offs, theme parks, etc. So, this show still puts out seventy or eighty minutes a week of pretty fast paced conversation. The hosts are fine; I’ll admit that the Wizarding World has spun out into such a massive entity that I don’t know most of what they’re even talking about at this point. Basically, it is what it is.
2 stars.
Essential If
The phrase “Wizarding World” doesn’t make you cringe.
Avoid Like the Plague If
Just saying, only the first three books are the REAL Harry Potter series.
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