Limited Capacity

Limited Capacity

Limited Capacity is a collection of six short stories about the strange and twisted ways we interact with the internet, and with each other. Punctuated with dark humour and surprising twists, each episode blurs the lines between horror, thriller, mockumentary and satire. The stories take on digital appropriation, toxic positivity, a self-help podcast for people who hate self-help and a talking chicken. Each immersive episode is packed with intimate and jarring stories that are both completely familiar and somehow confoundingly alien. It’s like Black Mirror for your ears. From the fiendishly clever mind of Rob Norman, co-creator of the hit podcast Personal Best.

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April 24, 2024 36 mins

The controversial reality TV show known as ‘Kid Nation’, which borrowed its premise from Lord of the Flies, was cancelled shortly after its 2007 debut. Producers took 40 kids into a makeshift desert town to fend for themselves and create their own society. Was the series an opportunity to discover what kids are capable of? Or simply a ploy for ratings? With access to former ‘Kid Nation’ contestants, their families, and the show’s c...

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For celebrities looking for love, regular online dating apps aren’t really an option. That’s why authors, actors and artists are flocking to Bala, the exclusive dating app for the creative elite. Bala is a place for celebrities to feel normal, relax and find their true soulmate. When struggling actor Lizzie Miller gets an invite to try it out, she finds something much more insidious than love.
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December 9, 2021 40 mins
The app NextDoor creates online communities based on user postal codes. When roleplayer “Connor” stumbles across an imaginary town (with an unassigned postal code), he finds what he’s been missing in real life: a close family that supports and accepts him. But despite the community’s willingness to stay hyper positive, real world disorder creeps in and threatens the boundaries of this fragile, make-believe world.
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December 2, 2021 34 mins
“Real” patients. “Real” trauma. “Real” therapy. Each week therapist and podcast host Lucetta Davis takes you inside a session with one of her clients. One of them, Roger, just got dumped by his girlfriend – who’s also his boss. He’s tired of being walked all over. In this episode, Roger shares some news with Dr. Davis: he’s signed up for a second therapy podcast – one that also comes with a self-help app.
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November 25, 2021 35 mins
Ronnie Wells walked away from a very successful voiceover career to create an educational cartoon called Polo The Chicken. Just as his new YouTube channel starts to take off, the alt-right starts to appropriate Polo’s likeness to spread hate. Online activists strike back and Ronnie finds himself a pawn in an all-out meme war.
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November 18, 2021 29 mins
A celebrity might go on vacation but their social accounts can’t stop posting. Enter: Zoe. When fitness influencer Gigi leaves for a trip, Zoe is recruited to not just be her social media manager – she’s asked to be a full stand-in for Gigi’s life. Things get complicated when Zoe goes rogue and her client’s ex-boyfriend starts asking questions.
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November 18, 2021 30 mins
Edie and her corporate coworkers put on a happy face until a restructure led by their smarmy boss, Greg, turns their workplace into a tangled web of distrust. Things get dire as shifting allegiances and daily griping on Zoom take the group to unexpected - and dark - places.
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November 4, 2021 1 min
Coming November 18. Limited Capacity is a collection of six unsettling short stories about the way our lives are warped through imperfect technologies. Punctuated with dark humour and surprising twists, each episode blurs the lines between horror, thriller, mockumentary and satire. It’s like Black Mirror for your ears. From Rob Norman, co-creator of the hit podcast Personal Best.
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