Heard about this yesterday and decided to give it a listen this morning while filling the dishwasher. By 6:00pm I had listened to all 8 podcasts plus the 4 recap podcasts from Slate. Yes this podcast is so good there are podcasts about this podcast. There was some discussion in the podcast thread but fatso suggested a dedicated thread so here it is.
Hopefully this thread can get some more listeners as I am interested in hearing what others think.
It is a really interesting, well crafted story. If you don't listen to podcasts it really is worth figuring it all out and giving it a listen. My wife doesn't and she's sitting next to me listening to episode 5.
Ok so what is it?
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Serial is a new podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial will follow one story - a true story - over the course of a whole season. We'll follow the plot and characters wherever they take us and we won’t know what happens at the end of the story until we get there, not long before you get there with us. Each week we'll bring you the latest chapter, so it's important to listen in order, starting with Episode 1.
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What's it about?
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On January 13, 1999, a girl named Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland, disappeared. A month later, her body turned up in a city park. She'd been strangled. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. The case against him was largely based on the story of one witness, Adnan’s friend Jay, who testified that he helped Adnan bury Hae's body. But Adnan has always maintained he had nothing to do with Hae’s death. Some people believe he’s telling the truth. Many others don’t.
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http://serialpodcast.org
As far as this thread goes, the series is up to episode 8 currently and discussion should be fair game up to there to start. If you haven't caught up, stop after this post. New episodes are posted Thursday's and episode discussion can start after it's posted. Listen and then come to this thread on Thursday's.
I know there are also a number of other places like Reddit where this story is being discussed and information around the case and people involved that has not yet made the podcast is being talked about. If you want to post something like that, I think it's fair to ask that it is identified as such and put in spoiler tags. I'm not sure I want to look at this stuff yet and others might be in the same boat.