this is how I feel listening to basically any plot involving intrigue

That Scene in a Christopher Nolan Film When You Give Up Trying to Follow the Story

in the past I listened to a lot of story podcasts (audio dramas? idk the term) and they often started off nice and spooky and horror-y, but frequently they would just devolve into this kind of stuff which I couldn’t follow at all

admittedly, I am very very bad with names and I think that was a lot of the problem