History Podcast / Limetown

* TakeThat: A pretty brutal one to [[Creator/{{Syfy}} the Syfy channel]]:

'''''Limetown''''' (2015-present) is a {{horror}}[=/=]ScienceFiction {{podcast}}[=/=]RadioDrama from Two-Up Productions that began airing during the summer of 2015. It focuses on Lia Haddock, an investigative journalist for [[LawyerFriendlyCameo APR]], in her search for the truth about what happened to the scientific village of Limetown, Tennessee, in which (fictively) in 2005, 347 people vanished without a trace. In fact, Haddock's own uncle, Dr. Emile Haddock, was one of the vanished. The story begins when APR publishes the first episode in Lia Haddock's planned seven-part series focused on what in the world happened in Limetown, which ends in Lia receiving a ground-breaking lead: a survivor, who wants to talk to her. What follows is a dive into a rabbit hole begins to shake Lia's view of herself and the world...

It can be found [[http://www.limetownstories.com/ here]]. A prequel novel of the same name written by Cote Smith was released in 2018. A live-action adaptation of the first season, starring Creator/JessicaBiel as Lia and Creator/StanleyTucci as Emile, aired in 2019 on [[Website/{{Facebook}} Facebook Watch]]. It was cancelled after one season.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Max and Lenore. Lenore also makes the offer to Lia, which she doesn't take.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: Implied with [[spoiler: Winona]], and [[spoiler: the reason Max shoots himself at the end of episode 5, and why Lenore takes what seems to be a suicide pill in the season finale]].

-->'''Lenore:''' This was not magic. Magic is what people invent because reality is awful. This was money, brute force and excel sheets.]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: During the Panic, the Hummingbird organization killed everyone in Limetown who doesn't have the Tech.]] Not to mention that nearly everyone Haddock talks to ends up dying in some way shape or form.
* {{Mockumentary}}
* MeaningfulEcho: [[spoiler: "It's all an illusion" in the Season 2 finale.]]

* AdultFear: Daniel Rassmueller and the other parents on the Bridge [[spoiler:having to psychically ''feel'' their children drown one by one in the cold depths of the ocean, miles away from help.]]

* ArcWords: "The man we were all here for" and "I had a purpose in Limetown" are repeated a lot.

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: 162 people, which may have included children, died horrible deaths in acid pools simply because [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they were no longer useful as a control group]]. The exception seems to be Sylvia, then a seven-year-old girl who Lenore Doogle saved.]]

* AssholeVictim: Played with. [[spoiler: A lot of the Limetown researchers make several questionable moral and ethical decisions, but their deaths are still seen as tragic.]] Perhaps justified, since APR as a news station is not meant to lean one way or another on matters like this, on top of the fact that speaking ill of the recently deceased is not socially acceptable.

* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:Season 2 brings back Lia Haddock, still held captive by her abductors from Season 1.]]

* FamousLastWords:
** [[spoiler: "Don't try to run." --Max]]
** [[spoiler: "I really think you'd prefer the pill. ... Oh... You can feel him, can't you?" --"Lenore Doogle"]]

* InfantImmortality: {{Averted}}. [[spoiler: 162 people, which may have included children, died horrible deaths in acid pools simply because [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they were no longer useful as a control group]]. The exception seems to be Sylvia, then a seven-year-old girl who Lenore Doogle saved.]]

It can be found [[http://www.limetownstories.com/ here]].

'''''Limetown''''' (2015-present) is a {{horror}}[=/=]ScienceFiction {{podcast}}[=/=]RadioDrama from Two-Up Productions that began airing during the summer of 2015. It focuses on Lia Haddock, an investigative journalist for [[LawyerFriendlyCameo APR]], in her search for the truth about what happened to the scientific village of Limetown, Tennessee, in which (fictively) in 2005, 347 people vanished without a trace. Haddock's uncle was one of the vanished. Or so it seems...

* AssholeVictim: Played with. [[spoiler: A lot of the Limetown researchers make several questionable moral and ethical decisions, but their deaths are still seen as tragic.]] Perhaps justified, since APR as a news station is not meant to lean one way or another on matters like this.

* DissonantSerenity: In "DDoS", Max talks about mercenaries going after him, warns Lia to pay for things in cash to "delay the inevitable" and that he knows about [[FateWorseThanDeath "what's coming to him"]], all with the breezy carelessness of someone talking about a football match.

* ElectronicTelepathy: [[spoiler:What the scientists at Limetown seem to have been working on.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: Implied with [[spoiler: Winona]], and [[spoiler: the reason Max shoots himself at the end of episode 5 and why Lenore takes what seems to be a suicide pill in the season finale]].
* GhostTown: The titular research town is this by the series' present.

* InfantImmortality: {{Averted}}. [[spoiler: 162 people, which may have included children, died horrible deaths in acid pools simply because [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they were no longer useful as a control group]]. The exception seems to be Sylvia, then a seven year old girl who Lenore saved.]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: The Hummingbird organization kills everyone in Limetown who doesn't have the Tech.]] Not to mention that nearly everyone Haddock talks to ends up dying in some way shape or form.

* MeaningfulName: Limetown. The town was built on top of some limestone caves, but [[spoiler: simply spelling "lime" backwards makes it "Emil Town"; which makes sense, given that Emile is the Man We Were All There For.]]
** Averted by the [[spoiler: Hummingbird organization. The hummingbird isn't their name or symbol, it's a sticker that Lenore put on the folder, presumably so she could keep track of it. Their name changes frequently.]]
** Napoleon the pig, [[spoiler: the first recipient of the tech,]] was named such by father Warren Chambers after the first pig who rebelled and took over in ''Literature/AnimalFarm''.

** [[spoiler: Emile himself is apparently a natural telepath, and aware of this fact from birth. The Tech was based on him, and he is needed to create more.]]

-->'''Max Finlayson''': [[spoiler: "Don't try to run."; uttered just before he shoots himself.]]

* AssholeVictim: Played with. [[spoiler: A lot of the Limetown researchers make several questionable moral and ethical decisions, but their deaths are still seen as tragic.]]

* ConsummateLiar: Charlie. She's so good at it that [[spoiler:she manages to fool Emile Haddock, the psychic who served as the basis for The Tech, into thinking she had a sister who commited suicide.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Lia is ''really'' keen on getting to the truth. [[spoiler:She falters in the finale, but holds fast to her pursuit of the truth in the face of several armed men.]]
* DissonantSerenity: Max talks about mercenaries going after him, warns Lia to pay for things in cash to "delay the inevitable" and that he knows about [[FateWorseThanDeath "what's coming to him"]], all with the breezy carelessness of someone talking about a football match.

** Season 2 concludes with [[spoiler:Emile utterly failing to get Lia's whereabouts from Charlie, who has managed to fool him from the first episode. Instead, Charlie leaves him with two different stories on Lia's fate, with no way for him to know which one is true. All the while, the Company has finalized the Limetown Tech and is ready to distribute it.]] [[spoiler:Finally, in a separate location, [[TheReveal Lia Haddock is revealed to be alive]] (just not by name), held captive by the Company since the end of Season 1. When urged by an interrogator, she voices her belief that the story of Limetown, and everybody's pursuit of it, will persist despite the Company's efforts to squash it.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Max and Lenore. Lenore also makes the offer to Lia, which she declines.]]

* HellIsThatNoise: [[spoiler: The last minute of the Season 1 finale.]]

** In Season 2, Episode 4, "The Bridge", the final dialogue between Charlie and the unidentified male holding her captive eventually makes clear that [[spoiler:the man is Emile Haddock, and he's trying to save his niece Lia from Charlie.]]

--> '''Charlie''', echoed by the film playing in the background: [[spoiler: "It's all an Illusion."]]

--> [[spoiler:'''Lia''': "I dreamt you thought you won."]]

** Season 2 concludes with [[spoiler:Emile utterly failing to get Lia's whereabouts from Charlie, who has managed to fool him from the first episode. Instead, Charlie leaves him with two different stories on Lia's fate, with no way for him to know which one is true.]]

** [[spoiler: "I really think you'd prefer the pill." --"Lenore Doogle"]]

* MeaningfulEcho: [[spoiler: "It's all an illusion" in the season 2 finale.]]

* SuicideIsPainless: [[spoiler: Whatever pill it was that Lenore took that put her to sleep and then stopped her heart.]]

-->'''Lia''': "For those of you that have taste, 'Signals' was a syfy channel movie."

-->'''Charlie''': [[spoiler: "I dreamt you thought you won."]]
* WhatTheHellHero: In 4.5, a caller to APR hotline chews Lia out for endangering the lives of everyone she comes in contact with and warns her to stay away from her missing brother, [[spoiler: given that just about ''everyone'' she goes near in her search for truth drops dead shortly after]].

* DissonantSerenity: Max talks about mercenaries going after him, warns Lia to pay for things in cash to "delay the inevitable" and that he knows about [[FateWorseThanDeath "what's coming to him"]] all with the breezy carelessness of someone talking about a football match.

** [[spoiler: "Don't try to run."--Max]]
** [[spoiler: "I really think you'd prefer the pill."--Lenore]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Implied with [[spoiler: Winona]] and [[spoiler: the reason Max shoots himself at the end of episode 5 and why Lenore takes what seems to be suicide pill]].
* GhostTown: The titular research town is this.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. [[spoiler: 162 people, which may have included children, died a horrible death. The exception seems to be Sylvia, then a seven year old girl who Lenore saved.]]

** Napoleon the pig [[spoiler: the first recipient of the tech]] was named such by father Warren Chambers after the first pig who rebelled and took over in Literature/AnimalFarm.

* WhatTheHellHero: In 4.5, a caller to APR hotline chews Lia out for endangering the lives of everyone she comes in contact with and warns her to stay away from her missing brother, [[spoiler: given that just about ''everyone'' she goes near in her search for truth drops dead]].

** [[spoiler: Emile himself is apparently a natural telepath, and aware of this fact from birth.]]

* AbandonedWarehouse: The setting for the Season 1 finale.

* ActionPrologue: While not exactly action-packed, the first episode features a large number of extra actors in fake archival audio, as well as a lengthy sequence in which the characters wander outdoors with extensive Foley work for sound effects. Later episodes generally take the form of an interview or conversation between two characters in a quiet room, which is much cheaper and easier to produce.
* TheAdjectivalMan: "The Man We Are All Here For"

* {{Determinator}}: Lia is ''really'' keen on getting to the truth

* AwfulTruth: The Limetown survivors treat it's secret like this, repeatedly asking Lia if she's sure she wants to know what really happened.

* Telepathy: [[spoiler: What the tech made possible for humans.]]

* MeaningfulName: Limetown. The town was built on top of some limestone caves, but [[spoiler: simply spelling "lime" backwards makes it "Emil Town"; which makes sense, given that Emil is the Man We Were All There For.]]

** [[spoiler: Emil himself is apparently a natural telepath, and aware of this fact from birth.]]

--> '''Charlie''', echoed by the film playing in the background: [[spoiler: "It's all an Illusion."