Rex Libris's Reviews The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe

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I guess I just don't get why people think Night Vale is such and awesome product. The first couple of stories are funny and amusing, but after that it is the same shtick again and again and again. Trigger might be long dead and sitting stuffed in the corner, but that is not stopping these people.

"Worlds" like the X-Files and Eerie, Indiana were far better and often funnier types of adventures than Night Vale. I think part of it is because in those two shows the veneer of normalcy over the mystery gave the mystery more . . . mystery? With Night Vale, it just sits there in plain sight. While it might be straining the metaphor, Night Vale masters the single entendre.