Deer Season

By: Erin Flanagan

Narrated by: Sarah Welborn

It's the opening weekend of deer season in Gunthrum, Nebraska, in 1985, and Alma Costagan's intellectually disabled farmhand, Hal Bullard, has gone hunting with some of the locals, leaving her in a huff. That same weekend, a teenage girl goes missing, and Hal returns with a flimsy story about the blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight. When the situation escalates from that of a missing girl to something more sinister, Alma and her husband are forced to confront what Hal might be capable of, as rumors fly and townspeople see Hal's violent past in a new light.

A drama about the complicated relationships connecting the residents of a small-town farming community, Deer Season explores troubling questions about how far people will go to safeguard the ones they love and what it means to be a family.

Contains mature themes.

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Solid story, terrible narration

A great narrator would have been wonderful, but this one falls terribly flat. I sped it up to 2x and that helped, but the vocal tone is not great, and the voices used for characters, particularly the male ones, are so bad it’s distracting. I think a solid male narrator or experienced female one would have improved the audio considerably.