Amazon’s adaptation of the popular true horror podcast has some big-name producers, but doesn’t do much to capture why the podcast is a phenomenon.
We’re only beginning to see the inevitable onslaught of podcasts turned TV shows, the latest evidence of a medium that continues to believe in the power of IP branding to the point of distraction. The challenges of transferring an audio-only format to a video medium can be seen in Amazon’s Lore, based on the popular and award-winning podcast from Aaron Mahnke.
Boasting a superstar team of producers including Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead), Ben Silverman (The Office) and Glen Morgan (The X-Files), Lore is a lackluster advertisement for the podcast for non-listeners and rarely distinctive enough to stand out as a TV show in its own right.
For those unfamiliar with the podcast, Mahnke delves into the real-life backgrounds of horror stories, superstitions and cautionary folklore, using actual historic cases and a modern perspective…
