Words are inadequate

One positive side effect of switching to an English major in college was that the only lecture courses I had were freshman-level, so I never had to deal with any actually difficult material presented in a format I had a lot of trouble absorbing. (There were lectures in English but they were a lot more personal and had a lot more interaction with the class.)

The Magnus Archives is for the most part stories told by survivors, so it's heavy on, oh, implication and suggestion. There's some grotesquerie, certainly, but that's not the core of it. It /is/ mostly just one guy talking, but it works for me. I think that's partly because Jonathan Sims just has a great voice. And it probably helps that episodes are short, around 15-20 minutes of actual content. I highly recommend at least trying it out: I really liked the second episode, and the fourth was the one that hooked me.

I enjoyed the heck out of The Wire when I first watched it ... five? years ago. I'm not sure I could get through it now.