Greetings, and welcome to The End Last Week, This Week, and Next Week, the podcast companion to The End, the newsletter and listener-focused directory that shines a light back on audio fiction shows after they've reached the finale of a season or the conclusion of the series. I am your host and the curator of The End, Evo Terra.

Let’s get into it, shall we?

Last Week

The most recent issue of The End—the 71st—highlighted five shows in either the Recently Completed Series or Recent Season Finales sections… and four of them wrapped in the last few days.

• 🦉🛰️🕰️ • Wyrd Woman, a dramatized modern slipstream fantasy written, performed, and produced by a queer autistic creator from Broads and Books Productions, a women-led production company, is fully complete as of January 10th. You’ll need a bit over 2 and a half hours to listen to all 9 episodes.
• 🪄🐒☄️ • Shadow Realm is a dramatized magical coming-of-age tale from Reenita Malhotra & SpokenLayer—think Harry Potter with a South Asian spin—and it’s won a bunch of awards for the script, and more. The season 2 finale was posted on January 10th, and you can listen to the 40 current episodes in six and a half hours.
• 📓🧬🤯 • Six Minutes, a dramatized adventure mystery for all the family from Gen-Z Media, posted the Season 3 finale on the 4th of January. Settle in, because there are 275 episodes in the first three seasons, for a listening time of over 38 hours. Wow.
• 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🧠🌍 • The Cara Files, a narrated scifi adventure and love story from Tony Warner, which is completely written and produced by the author, posted the Season 1 cliffhanger episode last Christmas. You can listen to the 10 current episodes in just over two and a half hours.
• And be sure to listen to the end of the audio file to hear trailers or snippets for these shows.

This Week

With every issue, I make two recommendations for great audio fiction I personally love. As with all things in life, YMMV.

• ☢️🤪🥫 • My first recommendation is A Happy Bureaucracy, a narrated post-apocalyptic parody from M.P. Fitzgerald. This is such a strange story, which is clearly a big draw for me. It's well-narrated and has an excellent pace. It takes a little work to buy into the premise, but once you do, it's a lot of fun! Here’s a snippet from the Prolougue: [snippet plays] A Happy Bureaucracy has more seasons coming, but you’ll enjoy the 37 episodes of the first two seasons in about 11 and a half hours.
• 🫦🎙️🤫 • My next recommendation is Dirty Diana, a dramatized slice-of-the-sexier-side-of-life from QCODE, starring and executive produced by Demi Moore. I like this one for a lot of reasons. The core story is fascinating. The production is top-notch. And then... Demi Moore, of course....