Hearthbound | An Untelling of the Odyssey

Dramatized post-apocayptic folk musical

from

Jo Chiang

Category:

Dramatized post-apocayptic folk musical

Status:

Fully binge-ready

Story episodes:

Run time:

4h 1m

Crowdfunding until

Yikes! Something odd is happening with this show making the episodes inaccessible or the entire show no longer binge-ready.

Here's the last note we made on Oct 08, 2025, which may nor may not be helpful: Complete Series (the entire story, possibly spread over multiple seasons, is finished)

You may find more information at the show's official website.

Show synopsis

Odessa’s just trying to get home to her wife, but along the Loneliest Road in America, she’ll encounter strange hosts, stray souls, and echoes of the past she’s running from… or running towards. Hearthbound is a 10-episode folk musical audio drama, set across a post-apocalyptic Great Basin. It’s a road trip, a queer love story, and a ballad for ecological restoration. You coming our way?

Creator comments

Created by and featuring a mostly queer/bipoc creative team and cast. Hearthbound reimagines the Odyssey with community, warmth, and hope.

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Stories where some sort of recorder—tape, digital, wax cylinder—is the primary vehicle that tells the story.

Westerns, stories from the trails, and other stories of the Old West, New West, and even other worlds that feel like Westerns.

Tales of rising waters, burning forests, and mass extinction, all due to climate change.

Musicals and other audio fiction shows with heavy use of original music in the production.

Featured recommendations of fiction podcasts, audio dramas, or audiobooks created by people of color.

Plays from Shakespeare and other classics in audio fiction form.

WLW, Lesbian, and other sorts of sapphic stories.

All the "to be listened to" stories in our curator's queue.

Queer-forward stories of any genre, really.

Scifi, sci-fi, and science fiction tales.

Apocalyptic and post-civilization tales that show life goes on.

Romance, romcoms, Hallmark shows, and other tales of love and relationships.

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