One thing I found interesting about this podcast is that unlike other fictional podcasts like “Welcome to Nightvale,” “We’re Alive,” or “The Black Tapes,” there is absolutely no romance throughout the series. Though the four start out as mere coworkers with little in common, the show does an admirable job of developing each character as an individual while also allowing relationships between the team to flourish.
Alexander Hilbert (Zach Valenti), erstwhile inventor and scientist Hera (Michaela Swee), a mostly-functional Artificial Intelligence and Captain Isabel Lovelace (Cecilia Lynn Jacobs), a no-nonsense soldier with hidden strengths. There are five main characters in “Wolf 359:” Eiffel, a pop-culture savvy narrator with a few skeletons in his closet Lieutenant Commander Renee Minkowski (Emma Sher-Ziarko), long-suffering leader of the spaceship Dr. In orbit around real-life star Wolf 359–hence the show’s name–and lightyears from Earth, each episode chronicles the daily life of Eiffel and his coworkers as they struggle to pass the time and solve the problems, both big and small, that arise as their mission to study the star progresses. Each episode is presented as an unauthorized broadcast sent out from a research space station, the Hephaestus, by a chronically bored communications officer, Doug Eiffel (Zach Valenti). One of my all-time favorite podcasts is “Wolf 359.” Co-produced by Gabriel Urbina and Zach Valenti, this sci-fi series carries on the grand tradition of 1950s radio dramas and puts any run-of-the-mill audiobook to shame.
As a college student, I love podcasts because they help me do everything from keeping up on current events to enjoying a fictional series in bite-size installments while I go between classes. It’s definitely an easy medium to consume when you spend a lot of time studying, working or commuting. In the last few years, podcasts–digital audio that you can download onto phones or iPods–have become increasingly popular.
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