11 Best Podcasts So Far - Spoiler: They're GREAT

11 Best Podcasts So Far - Spoiler: They're GREAT

We have the data and we're calling the polls. It's the primary season and we consider the first half of the podcast year to be closed! Luckily, we can show you what folks were searching for with Great Pods from January 1st, 2022. Here are the top 11 most-viewed top podcasts. You can click on the cards to read all the reviews.

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11. Storytime with Seth Rogen

Critic Podcast Reviews - Storytime with Seth Rogen
Hi! Welcome to Storytime with Seth Rogen, where every week Seth asks somebody, “Do you have a great story? And if you do, will you tell it on my podcast?” That’s it. That’s the concept. But the results are so much more than that.This is not a typical comedian-hosted chat show! Each episode plays lik…

10. Solar

Critic Podcast Reviews - Solar
SOLAR, starring Stephanie Beatriz, Tony Award winner Alan Cumming, Academy Award winner Helen Hunt and Jonathan Bangs, is a journey to the heart of the solar system and an exploration of the vastness of the human spirit. Disconnected from Earth and trapped on separate parts of their spacecraft, crew…

9. Bad Women: The Ripper Retold

Critic Podcast Reviews - Bad Women: The Ripper Retold
It’s a cold case like no other. In the fall of 1888, five women were brutally murdered in the slums of London. The attacks were so violent that the killer earned a nickname - Jack the Ripper.But everything you think you know about Jack and those murdered women is wrong.Historian Hallie Rubenhold u…

8. Batman Unburied

Critic Podcast Reviews - Batman Unburied
A serial killer known as The Harvester terrorizes Gotham City, but Batman is not coming to the rescue. In fact, Bruce Wayne has no memory of being the Caped Crusader at all. Instead, Bruce is a forensic pathologist, performing the autopsy on the latest victim when he’s attacked by the killer himself…

7. Sweet Bobby

Critic Podcast Reviews - Sweet Bobby
Kirat is a successful radio presenter. On Facebook she meets Bobby, a handsome cardiologist. He’s a catch. Soon, they get tangled up in a love affair full of lies and manipulation. Then... Kirat discovers a deception of almost unimaginable proportions.From the makers of Finding Q, this is Sweet Bobb…

6. The Always Sunny Podcast

Critic Podcast Reviews - The Always Sunny Podcast
The Always Sunny Podcast is an unofficial look back on the past fourteen seasons of the hit show, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, hosted by Glenn, Charlie, and Rob. With the fifteenth season dropping December 2021, the guys are going back to where it all began: 2005. Starting with the very first…

5. SmartLess

Critic Podcast Reviews - SmartLess
New episodes come out every Monday for free, with 1-week early access when you join Amazon Music or 1-week early and ad-free for Wondery+ subscribers”SmartLess” with Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, & Will Arnett is a podcast that connects and unites people from all walks of life to learn about shared exp…

4. Last Known Position

Critic Podcast Reviews - Last Known Position
A new mystery thriller from the makers of Blackout and The Left Right Game, Last Known Position follows a group of experts including submersible pilot Mikaela Soto (Gina Rodriguez) as they seek to recover a flight that suddenly vanished over the Pacific Ocean. The super yacht sets off on what looks…

3. Ghostwriter

Critic Podcast Reviews - Ghostwriter
In this C13Features podcast movie presentation of Ghostwriter, Kate Mara and Adam Scott star in a psychological thriller about a former journalist who reluctantly accepts a job ghostwriting a new murder mystery novel for an eccentric billionaire. As they collaborate on the project, questions - and s…

2. The Trojan Horse Affair

Critic Podcast Reviews - The Trojan Horse Affair
A strange letter appears on a city councillor’s desk in Birmingham, England, laying out an elaborate plot by Islamic extremists to infiltrate the city’s schools. The plot has a code name: Operation Trojan Horse. The story soon explodes in the news and kicks off a national panic. By the time it all d…
  1. The Improvement Association - Why? This reddit thread.
Critic Podcast Reviews - The Improvement Association
For at least a decade, allegations of cheating have swirled around elections in rural Bladen County, N.C. Some people in town point fingers at a Black advocacy group, the Bladen County Improvement Association, accusing it of bullying voters, tampering with ballots and stealing votes outright. These…

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