Popular Reviews of Devils in the Dark

Was expecting more but sadly all I hear is two 30 somethings, cackling and laughing over people being murdered. Distasteful and disrespectful, seems very unprofessional and not very well planned or researched

Unbelievably bad. Laughing at victims.... Seriously? At best it's outdated... At worst it's heartless. In my opinion this should be removed from platforms. Horrendous.

As an avid true crime listener, I have to say, this falls well below the usual calibre of true crime pods.Seems that the hosts are just reading scripted info and playing clips from other content… don’t actually seem to have done their own research or have any knowledge on the cases in hand or have anything to comment or add other than seemingly immature reactions.Combined with screeching and cackling that only seems in poor taste considering the subject matter, I definitely would not recommend.Such a shame as the idea of telling a friend about a case and catching genuine reactions could have been great if it was executed in a much more respectful and tasteful way.

Not for me, unfortunately. The hosts seem very uninformed on the subject matter, using other people's work and research while contributing nothing of note themselves, save to cackle about the brutal tragedies of real people, which I personally find distasteful. Smacks of bandwagon jumping, a poorly hosted and produced effort to latch on to an already oversaturated market. All around quite vulgar and unpleasant.

This feels very unorganised and just clips played from others peoples documentary’s with Helen sounding like she’s reading from a script. Plus the light heartiness and laughing is very insensitive to the nature of the topics

This podcast is promoted as being wildly different from other true crime podcasts. So, what's the twist? Ah, being wildly insensitive to the victims...This is all swept under the rug with the claim that it's supposed to be two best friends telling each other these stories as if they were down the pub.Going off of what I'm hearing from th podcast, I question who would actually be friends with these two heartless individuals. If I heard them talking down my local I think I would have a few choice words to say to these girls.Another twist is neither of the hosts can coherently tell a story. The narrative is so painfully all over the place and both sound like they are as thick as two short planks. The "experts" they claim to have come in and collaborate with them are nothing more that audio clips ripped off from other shows. If I wanted to hear an audio file from another true crime show I might as well watch the damn thing myself!There is nothing new with this podcast, it's dull as dishwater. The podcast blurb asks the question of whether Helen and Danni can "handle" true crime. The answer is blatantly obvious, no they can not!

Completely terrible. Tasteless, guttural humour with no care or thought put into it. I feel for anyone having to listen to this.

Open to changing my review upon hearing actual episodes, but good god this trailer was distasteful!Laughing over the death and pain of innocent people? Absolutely BIZARRE. Who funds this? Who came up with this Idea??A really disappointing and poor attempt at jumping on an 'easy' podcast trend that already fizzled out a year or two ago.Leave true crime to the thoroughly educated and respectful people who already have long established, carefully written shows. Painfully distasteful.

This is an absolutely awful attempt at a true crime podcast, no respect for the victims with the two host's attempts at unfunny jokes and vile cackling.

It’s just not good. I don’t know what to add that hasn’t been said already by the previous reviews… I think the worst (well, one of the worst) comments was that serial killer inspired horror movies, but where did they get their inspiration from ? So what, all the serial killers have to find the “inspiration” for their murders ? And everyone watching horror movie will use it to commit murder in the future ?? Do proper research before saying such ignorant remarks maybe !

I can’t quite put my finger on what style they were going for, but whatever style it doesn’t work! Laughing and questions about how killers got so many boyfriends( the episode that I listened too), is inappropriate and disrespectful to the victims of these crimes! A lot of the episode were clips from tv documentaries and there seemed very little planning or thought put into it. You can’t just hope for the best when it comes to true crime, there’s planning, researching and a certain way to portray the subject. These are peoples life’s that have been changed, not a fairytale.

In an oversaturated number of true crime podcast, this seems to be so tasteless ! Hearing apparently uneducated (on the subjects) 30 something cackling at horrible death is just grim and disrespectful to the people who died. Might change the review after a couple of episode if the trailer actually misrepresented the show but I have little to no hope there.

As an avid listener of true crime podcasts, I was excited to listen to a podcast with a British twist, however I can honestly say this is distasteful trash. Two 30-something British women with dreadful accents cackling over murder victims in a manner probably similar to how they talk about their partners while drinking cheap prosecco in Wetherspoons. The helpful "experts" appear to be just audio clips. "She stabbed him 30 times, and then just to sh*t on his day she took his dog". Wow. Because being murdered is "a bit sh*t innit".

Absolutely dreadful. Poorly researched, awful scripted delivery, distasteful, vulgar, ignorant and entirely unfunny. Not clever enough to deem their chatter dark humour. Comes off like it's done for the payday rather than any genuine interest. Not worth any more of my time and has put me off hearing any more ventures from Helen & Danni. Do they understand true crime discussions handles the subject of real life monsters and their real life victims?

Trying to join an already oversaturated market, this podcast has a special twist! It’s childish, crass, insensitive and badly researched. Never mind the worst cockney accent since Danny Dyer. Avoid at all costs.

I just finished episode three, and I have to say I really enjoyed it. This podcast is the style of a friend telling another a true crime story, with inserts from experts and interviews spliced in for context. If you're looking for a cold cut, serious, true crime podcast, this is not for you! If you're like me and looking for a true crime podcast that feels like hanging out with your friend and has a modern twist check it out! I have anxiety and the style of most true crime content is not consumable for me, so formats like this make the genre so much more accessible. Thank you Helen and Dani for the episode and I look forward to more! Ps. If you could do more eps on female culprits I'd be jazzed, cheers!

I listen to a number of true crime podcasts, especially now I work from home. I find them good motivation for working! This kept getting advertised to me (either the podcasts I listen to were saying they loved it or it was a straight ad from this podcast itself with clips). I figured I'd give it a go as I was running out of stuff to listen to. Big mistake! It is relentlessly annoying and so distasteful. You can banter about murder and crime without outright laughing at victims but Helen and Danni seem to have missed this. In fact it doesn't feel like banter, it feels like they're just taking the piss. It often feels cruel. Especially as their laughter is so jarring and harsh to listen to. another review referred to it as cackling and that hints the nail on the head. Be warned headphone users! Furthermore the podcast doesn't feel researched, at least not well. Lots of clips from other content and a sense they're just reading their information from the internet somewhere, rather than researching and writing their own script or notes. I suppose I should have been suspicious just based on how much it was being advertised. With movies at least, if a film is advertised a lot it's usually to disguise the fact the studio thinks the film is bad. The same feels true here. Overly advertised to disguise the fact that it's poor quality content. And as one final comment. Helen keeps talking about how *hilarious* her best friend Danni is. But I wouldn't be surprised if she's the only one who thinks that. The emphasis she puts on the word *hilarious* forces you into thinking it must be true, but it isn't. The attempts at humour are poorly judged, barbaric and sometimes even forced. I gave this four episodes before I gave up because I know it takes podcasts a bit of time to find their groove. What a waste. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

Avoid. Excruciatingly annoying

I love devils in the dark! I find Helen and Dani so relatable and I often listen when I’m running suddenly the time flys by when I’m working out.

I was surprised to see so many negative reviews, as I didn't feel the hosts were disrespectful or uninformed...I felt the episodes were very well researched and it really just felt like discussing true crime stories with your fellow true crime junkies over a few glasses of wine. Its not for everyone, it would seem, but I found it a breath of fresh air. Sad there aren't more episodes!