Podcast App in IOS 8.0

Listening to Podcasts using the Podcast APP continues to be a struggle and now even worse in IOS 8.0

Anyone have any suggestions how to make listening to Podcast as easy as it used to be.

Everytime I go to download my daily podcasts it is a gong show and never works the same each day.

Is there another App that works better than the Podcast App?

Thx Much