Limetown was creepy enough when it was just a podcast, but Facebook Watch's series of the same name cranks up the creepiness factor in a big way. New fans who are digging the jump scares in the Jessica Biel-led thriller don’t have to listen to the Limetown podcast to appreciate the show — it works well on its own — but there are still some nuances worth adding to your In the podcast queue.
Written and directed by Zack Akers and produced by Skip Bronkie, the podcast was released by Twosome Productions in the summer of 2015 and became the number one podcast on iTunes two months later. The second season of the podcast was released on October 30, 2018, and you can currently listen to both seasons on iTunes, Spotify, and Stitcher. Because the podcast is narrated by a young woman who works at NPR, many people compared it to a TV series when it was first released, not realizing that it was a fictional story.
It's a work of fiction, which becomes more obvious in the series, but it still focuses on the podcast's fictional journalist Lia Haddock as she spends her life investigating neuroscience in Tennessee The disappearance of 326 residents was studied. Represents APR's facility Limetown. Much like the Facebook Watch series, each episode of the podcast highlights flashbacks from Limetown in the form of interviews with survivors, researchers, or others with connections to the town.
The main difference between the two productions is that while the podcast lets listeners into Leah's world a little bit, mainly through the details of Leah's relationship with her uncle, the TV show focuses more on Leah's backstory and current day-to-day life. More details added with help. Additional supporting characters.
There are other deviations from the source material. The first two episodes of the Limetown TV series are almost identical to the first two episodes of the podcast. Structurally, the biggest difference is that they changed some of the cliffhangers to take place earlier in the series on Facebook Watch, which helps control the pacing of the story on screen.
The Limetown drama is also filled with flashbacks to a younger Leah, fleshing out her relationship with her uncle (Stanley Tucci) in more detail than in the podcast. The show also explores the behind-the-scenes aspects of making an investigative journalist podcast, such as deadlines, budgets, or fights with editors. There are also scenes where Haddock's need to record things is compulsive and immoral, such as when she records herself having sex with a woman and masturbating afterward. These insights into Leah’s character simply aren’t in the podcast.
The real appeal of the TV adaptation, however, is seeing the surreal experiments described in the podcast come to life. With flashbacks to pre-disappearance Limetown, crazy experiments, and more, it's not for the faint of heart, but definitely worth a watch if you can't get enough of the podcast. vice versa.
No matter how you learned about the story, the podcast and Facebook Watch series are worth watching for Limetown fans to fully experience this bizarre tale.
