My Not In Front of Dinner, Darling Review
I don't think I've laughed this hard to a Listener-centered audio drama series since GBA's Bastard Warrior & BVZ! I walked into Not In Front of Dinner, Darling thinking it was going to be about two vampires trying to get the Listener's attention, but I couldn't be more wrong! We have fighting, drama, dark humor, some romance, representation, & comedy all around! Our Listener gets captured by two bickering vampiric lovers (Cervantes & Edmond), then escapes, then gets captured again by a beautiful & cunning vampire named, Eloise. She's such a delight! The Malfeasant Ball is approaching & our resident bickering lovers need a "lamb" (I think a human) to compete! Thank god you've got nothing better to do so you forcefully get shoved into getting pampered & thrown into a literal life or death situation! It's off to the ball you go! But before you go, you have to sit through Edmond & Cervantes’s failing marriage (partly helped by Eloise, but she was just chilling). THEN, it’s off to the ball you go!
Speaking of which, Episode 3, 4, & 5 (the ball episodes) are my favorite parts of the series! Everyone has their ulterior motives until everything just escalates on the dance floor. Cervantes & Edmond are barely speaking to each other, Eloise is just chilling while Gabriel (her "lamb") is plotting with Anneke because the sister hate between her & Catherina is REAL, Count Cecil is such a delight, Brant had me laughing, the banter between Reggie & Ruben (Eloise's twin carriage drivers &/or escorts , I think) also had me laughing, Lord Scythus was a savage & that MF’er is long DEAD, I love Margaret, there’s this one deep voiced vampire (I don’t know his name) who is also very funny, & tell me why we suddenly got VAMPIRE SLAYERS up in here?! I absolutely LOVE when royal/noble balls get interrupted & turn into chaos! Can't get enough of it! I also feel like our Listener was completely overshadowed by the cast because....man, what a cast of characters! I don’t have one favorite! I have multiple! While it’s sad there’s only five episodes, it all got wrapped nicely into this wildly entertaining story! You should give it a listen for some laughs!🦇
(🎉Also, Happy Late Channelversary, Escaped!🎉)
