Friday Fiction: How Long Would It Take You To Notice The Honey Monster?
Aug 1, 2025
The Best Edge of Eternities Cards (Part 1 of 5)
Jul 30, 2025
The Magnus Protocol Reviews: “Back to Basic”
Jul 28, 2025
Friday Fiction: Hiding In Plain Sight (Part 3)
Jul 25, 2025
Ironheart Episodic Coverage: “Bad Magic”
Jul 23, 2025
The Magnus Protocol Reviews: “Sink or Swim”
Jul 21, 2025
Friday Fiction: Hiding In Plain Sight (Part 2)
Jul 18, 2025
Ironheart Episodic Coverage: “We in Danger, Girl”
Jul 16, 2025
The Magnus Protocol Reviews: “Hostile Workplace”
Jul 14, 2025
Friday Fiction: Hiding In Plain Sight (Part 1)
Jul 11, 2025
Continuing Impressions of Revival Ep3: “Reality Check”
Jul 9, 2025
The Magnus Protocol Reviews: “Internal Investigation”
Jul 7, 2025
Friday Fiction: That Old Drum
Jul 4, 2025
Daredevil: Born Again Episodic Coverage: “Straight to Hell”
Jul 2, 2025
Ironheart Episodic Coverage: “Will the Real Natalie Please Stand Up?”
Jun 30, 2025
Honestly, this is one of the most complicated stand-alone stories we’ve ever featured on Friday Fiction. It’s set in the future, with some comedy layered in, and then is also an apocalyptic horror story.
It’s not the best “exile everything” spell that Standard has seen, but Beyond the Quiet will become a staple of any WU control deck, and will be multiple copies in that deck.
“Back to Basic” is an odd episode to talk about. It’s not really an episode; it’s exposition. The statement is barely a statement. The conversations don’t feel like conversations. The whole point of the runtime is just to teach us some worldbuilding elements.
Welcome back for Part 3. The final part. The conclusion.
In it, our narrator will find the Hidden Gnasher—but it won’t be how you maybe expected.
I was so concerned during the first half of “Bad Magic.” Nothing seemed to be happening. Riri was sitting in her trauma, and getting increasingly paranoid, but I was genuinely worried that nothing would push the plot forward until the next episode.
“Sink or Swim” is a disturbing, creative episode that would’ve likely creeped me out if I weren’t very used to these kinds of stories. Sometimes, horror media still “gets me,” and I jolt a little, but I was mostly just enjoying the little clues that I picked up as it went.
Not every monster is a scary, massive thing, as this story proves.
In our second installment of “Hiding In Plain Sight,” our protagonist is now trapped in a room with something so small that he can’t be sure where it is, but it’s quite capable of hurting him.
“We in Danger, Girl,” could best be described as the consequences episode. Many, many plotlines set up over the last two episodes are all collapsing in. Basically, nothing is going right for the characters—and it was the perfect choice for this show.
Why wasn’t “Hostile Workplace” the episode we got when the series returned from a hiatus? It’s much, much better than “Internal Investigation,” and reveals a ton of plot information without giving the game away. A single speculation from Sam about how alchemy works was honestly enough to make my mind go whirring. Not to mention the statement.
Some worlds have monsters. This is one of them—but they’d done a very good job of containing them. They are objects of study, as much as horrible dangers.
When they get out, though, they are only one of those things.
“Reality Check” is—drum roll please—a great episode of Revival. Perhaps the first even good episode of Revival. It actually flowed properly and felt like it was utilizing the interesting questions at the heart of its premise while maintaining solid, cohesive plotlines. I wasn’t frustrated; I wasn’t thrown off. The episodic and the serialized nature of this story are finally working in harmony.
The wait is over, but “Internal Investigation” was not worth that wait. The hiatus made me think that we would get a bombshell of an episode once we returned to The Magnus Protocol. I was wrong. Not only is this episode not scary, it barely gives us any new information for any of the ongoing mysteries.
