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1	''Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery'' is a podcast created by Hartlife NFP, creators of ''Podcast/OurFairCity''.
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3	Lily Harper moves to the small town of Mount Absalom, Ohio, to help look after her estranged mother, Dot. Staying at Fenwood House, the boarding house owned by her family for generations, Lily discovers ghosts, conspiracies, and the strange secrets of the town.
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6	!! This show contains examples of:
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8	* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Silas]] has several polite interactions with Lily, and offers her both advice and brandy at different points, despite being someone Lily's family has been trying to keep at bay for generations.
9	* AgentScully: Abbie typically takes a more skeptical approach to any possible supernatural occurrences, though they gradually warm to the idea of the supernatural existing in Mount Absolom.
10	* AmicableExes: Dot and Dale, Lily's parents, still get on well after their divorce.
11	* AncientOrderOfProtectors: The Delphic Order seem itself as this.
12	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Rudy. Talks to an imaginary class to work through his ideas, but is a very good astronomer.
13	* ChristmasEpisode: 'Hark' is something of a TwistedChristmas episode, with Dot sundowning as Abbie, the only tenant in Fenwood during Christmas, does their best to manage.
14	* CloseKnitCommunity: Everyone in town knows and seems genuinely fond of one another, for the most part.
15	* TheConspiracy: The Delphic Order.
16	* ContinuityNod:
17	** In season three's ''The Sound of Her Voice'', Lily uses the same calm method of dealing with a kitchen fire that Wes uses in season one's ''The Diner''.
18	** In ''Solid Citizens'', Lily, Dot, and Abbie discuss possible supernatural things about [[spoiler: Wes]] that occurred in previous episodes.
19	** Abbie's celery jingle, which won the contest, can be heard on the radio in ''Night Shift''. Wes hums part of his jingle during ''Theodore''.
20	* CoolOldLady: Dot Harper.
21	* CuteGhostGirl: [[spoiler: Joey, and possibly young Lily.]]
22	* ADayInTheLimelight: Rudy, Abbie, and Wes all get episodes that focus on them.
23	* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Wes.]]
24	* EnsembleCast: While season one focuses mainly on Lily, season two onwards starts giving equal focus on Abbie and Rudy, and season three giving equal attention to Wes.
25	* FriendlyGhost: Many of the ghosts of Mount Absalom are friendly, or at least benign.
26	* GeniusLoci:
27	** Fenwood House can communicate using the radiators, and as of season five [[spoiler:it can move its own rooms around.]]
28	** [[spoiler:Mount Absalom]], possibly.
29	* GoodParents:
30	** Dale and [[GoodStepmother Cynthia]] for Lily. Dot tried to be, but didn't quite succeed.
31	** Wes's parents.
32	* GhostAmnesia: [[spoiler: Wes only begins remembering his past life in season three, and still struggles to remember everything.]]
33	* HalloweenEpisode: 'The Graveyard Shuffle' from season two, which even has three HalloweenSongs created by the writers: "Do the Trick Or Treat", "My Boyfriend is a Jack O’Lantern", and "The Graveyard Shuffle".
34	* HauntedHouse: Fenwood is a benign example, for the most part.
35	* IntergenerationalFriendship: Dot and Wes.
36	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Rudy.]]
37	* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: Or diner, in this case.
38	* TheLonelyDoor: The door that sometimes appears in the basement of Fenwood House.
39	* MissingChild: Season four episode 'Tighten the Ropes' has [[spoiler: Jamie Warren go missing for most of the episode, with the adults around him - and his parents especially - growing increasingly worried.]]
40	* NoNameGiven:
41	** Mark Soloff's character, the Old Man with the monster-dogs, is left unnamed until the season two finale, often credited simply with garbled radio noises.
42	** The proprietor and waitress from Hunter's Diner also have their names in the credits covered by static.
43	* TheOrder: The Delphic Order, a secret society dedicated to [[spoiler: keep Silas Lodge out of the town.]]
44	* OurGhostsAreDifferent: There are several ghosts living in Mount Absalom, including:
45	** Norah, who haunts the observatory where she died, has limited corporeality, and can recreate every sound made in the observatory since three days after her death.
46	** [[spoiler: Theodore Wesley]], who can eat and move about normally freely within Mount Absalom, but who wasn't aware he was dead.
47	** Great Uncle Tim, whose ghost initially disappeared after his partner Grant died, but who can be found in the Hunter's building under certain circumstances.
48	** And then there's the reveal in series four that [[spoiler:the ghosts are not ghosts but instead memory echoes.]]
49	* PumpkinPerson: Referenced in one of the songs played in ''The Graveyard Shuffle''.
50	* ParentsAsPeople: Dot. She clearly loves Lily, but the two have a strained relationship at times, especially at the beginning.
51	* PrequelInTheLostAge: "The Poplars of Soissons", a one-off special about a grieving French explorer who encounters [[spoiler: the moat in the cave and its ability to commune with the dead]] in the 1790s, before the town's foundation.
52	* SeenItAll: Nothing fazes Dot about the weirdness of Mount Absolom.
53	* SirSwearsALot: Dot Harper is responsible for most of the swearing in the show.
54	* SleazyPolitician:
55	** Chester, who - for unknown reasons - is hellbent on taking the Fenwood House from Dot.
56	** Mayor Edgar Lopez, a much more realistic and toned-down version, who is extremely venal, overly concerned with his image, and seems to be just using his office as a stepping stone for the U.S Senate.
57	* SmallTownBoredom: Lily saw Mount Absalom as too small and boring as a teenager, and has similar feelings when returning as an adult.
58	* SmallTownTyrant: Chester Warren, a small-town bureaucrat who serves as the nominal leader of the Delphic Order, and [[TripleShifter possesses an absurd amount of jobs]] which he uses to control the town in subtle ways, such as [[spoiler: extorting the Fenwood House through an archaic law classifying it as a brothel]].
59	* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: A variant in season five. When Dot is faced with two Russell Epsteins, she asks them both what her first music record was. [[spoiler: The fake Russell, an aspect of Fenwood, knows the real answer.]]
60	* TheStinger: The first two seasons have either a post-credits fact or a post-credit scene after each episode.
61	* ThanksgivingEpisode: The episode 'The Broken Moat' takes place at Thanksgiving, complete with a big turkey dinner, feelings of togetherness, and stressful family relationships.
62	* TownWithADarkSecret: Besides the whole atmosphere of the place, there's an old man living in the woods with his [[{{Hellhound}} two monster-dogs]], an abandoned observatory built on top of another buried building, a few deceased citizens who have [[RevenantZombie come back healthy]], a 24-hour diner that appears out of nowhere with no health code compliance to speak of, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a horribly skewed local history pageant]].
63	* UnfazedEveryman: Of all the three characters of the show that move to Mount Absolom, (Abbie, Lily, and Rudy) Rudy adapts to the supernatural perhaps the best - he willingly accepts the existence of ghosts and even befriends Norah easily, and frequently points out to Abby that there's no logical explanation for some of the things they've seen, like TheLonelyDoor that appears in the Fenwood House.
64	* UnreliableExpositor: Dot, while a lifelong resident of Mount Absolom, can't tell the main cast everything due to [[spoiler: her alzheimers disease, which has gotten them into trouble a few times.]]
65	* WalkingSpoiler: Wes, and the old man who lives in the woods.
66	* WhamEpisode:
67	** Episode eleven of the second season. [[spoiler: Rudy digs through the observatory floor to the structure below it. Lily is lowered down through the hole, which is around fifty feet deep, and hears ghostly voices. Wes panics after being told he is dead, and disappears.]]
68	** Episode eleven of season three, when [[spoiler: Rudy dies.]]
69	* WhamLine: From the episode ''Hold On'' in season four:
70	--> [[spoiler:Silas: "I live here now. In Mount Absalom."]]

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