Excessive

By: Dan Robert

Narrated by: Chloe Fineman, Joshua Jackson, Meredith Hagner, Kim Cattrall, Dan Robert, Loni Love, Debbie Allen, Emily Skeggs, Amy Sedaris, full cast

Excessive is a dark romantic comedy created by Emmy Award-winning writer Dan Robert, starring Chloe Fineman (Saturday Night Live, Father of the Bride, Babylon), Joshua Jackson (Dr. Death, The Affair, Dawson’s Creek), and an all-star cast including Amy Sedaris, Loni Love, Kim Cattrall, Meredith Hagner, Debbie Allen, Heidi Gardner, and Guillermo Díaz.

Paula O’Brien (Chloe Fineman) is a 30-something haunted-house stage manager who has always been told she’s a little “too much”. Over the top. Overwhelming. Just—too much. But what do you do with your “too much” when no one wants it?

After a humiliating turn at the wedding of her childhood best friend (Meredith Hagner), Paula flees Connecticut, leaving her overbearing mother (Kim Cattrall) behind, and follows a series of signs to the city of excess, Las Vegas, in search of her true twin flame.

Enter Victor (Joshua Jackson): a criminally charming bachelor who causes Paula to fall hard. But after Victor vanishes without a trace, he discovers the true meaning of “too much” when she sends thousands of unrequited texts—each message a new stop on this twisted journey through the dark side of romance and magic in Vegas.

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I need a part two

It was insane. A really fun listen. It had soooo much going on and yes sometimes it was hard to follow but it was worth it. It ended at 4:44:44 lol

So that just happened!

Well, I listen to audiobooks while I work data entry and with this one I barely got anything done because I kept having to run it back thinking that surely I missed something because I felt completely lost, like all the time! I mean it was so insane that I actually wondered if it was just me! Upon reading the reviews of the masses it had me even more confused because everyone came on to sing it's praises. Then adding insult to this already festering wound its abrupt ending left me a little bit angry that I had listened to this for so so so long and I'm not even going to get the satisfaction of a proper resolute ending!

Let me leave you guessing!!

I liked it but I didn’t like it. I liked it more than I didn’t

Witty Fun

There is a lot to like, but it moves fast. I was never sure if I had missed something critical to understanding what was happening in the narrative. My advice is to just enjoy the ride - it will come together more or less, but then venture out again on another thread. When you think of it in terms of the main character’s mindset it makes some sense, but some of the other characters are hard to keep straight. They all do an excellent job with the performances. My one question was the ending - it felt like there were answers, but not resolution.

My Head Hurts

I’m not entirely sure what I listened to. The voice acting was phenomenal and the one-off character interactions were mostly funny. The story as a whole, however, is a confusing headache. It took so many twists and turns that by the end I felt mostly exhaustion. The ending cemented the general, “What…?” feelings I had throughout.

What just happened?

I was able to follow the story, once I accepted the flighty protagonist’s stream of consciousness, and the voice actors were great, but there were odd and unnecessary unexplained twists and where is the rest of it? Too many open questions and character shifts. If this is a Part I, it should have come with Part 2. Without a Part 2, I cannot recommend.

Wish I had looked at the reviews first

The voice acting was great and felt gripping, but by the end seemed like a whole lot of build-up to nothing. Disappointed by the ending. I either wish there was more, or that I hadn't even wasted my time listening to it at all.

Fun story

All the performers were extraordinarily talented, loved the story, and looking forward to the sequel

goes by super fast

needs a sequel. I'm hoping to see Paula outwit her charming magician. rather listen to this than the radio

just not my thing

Narration was good but the story was difficult to follow. struggled through the 4 hours.