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I never listened to Serial, but everyone says it's a big deal, hugely important for the history of true crime dramas... but no one ever says if it's *good*. Still worth listening to in TYOOL 2022?
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it isn't important to me either way
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Jun 5, 2022 20:44
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Izzhov posted:I never listened to Serial, but everyone says it's a big deal, hugely important for the history of true crime dramas... but no one ever says if it's *good*. you could listen to it and decide for yourself.
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Jun 5, 2022 20:45
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s1 he did the murder s2 is about a stupid us marine or something and is really funny and bad s3 was about some random court cases poo poo, absolute bollocks
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Jun 5, 2022 20:50
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I've listened to the first "case" a few times, it'll leave you unsatisfied because real life sucks and is muddled. Can't remember the second, or if I finished it even.
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Jun 5, 2022 20:56
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Ya its pretty good OP, i like golden grams 
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Jun 5, 2022 21:03
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I'm biased because I'm Asian but a small segment of the first season really bothered me. The host was so surprised and delighted that the girl, Hae Min Lee, was such a normal teen girl. Like she expected Asian girls to lead compeltely different lives even though they live in the US. Yeah she liked boy bands and hanging out at malls. Why is that a surprise. It's like when white people are amazed that minorities can speak English.
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Jun 5, 2022 21:11
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They’re bad, OP. it’s like how they turn what would be a tight/good 30minute-1 hour documentary into a bloated incomprehensible 10 part “mini”series with lots of unnecessary faux drama and worthless interstitial interviews with a lot of “hmmm? Hmmm!”blabber. Honestly, just read the wiki entry for each event and you’re just as well informed but saved yourself about 10 hours
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Jun 5, 2022 21:22
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Nope, it gets soggy really quickly hahahaha. Get it? like the cereal food? lmao oh jeez
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Jun 5, 2022 21:24
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Brother Tadger posted:They’re bad, OP. it’s like how they turn what would be a tight/good 30minute-1 hour documentary into a bloated incomprehensible 10 part “mini”series with lots of unnecessary faux drama and worthless interstitial interviews with a lot of “hmmm? Hmmm!”blabber. Honestly, just read the wiki entry for each event and you’re just as well informed but saved yourself about 10 hours Serious post: I noticed that Serial started a trend where the narrator tells the story of how they discovered and felt about the story and it's about the experience of the narrator rather than the story itself.
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Jun 5, 2022 21:30
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bar88537 posted:Serious post: I noticed that Serial started a trend where the narrator tells the story of how they discovered and felt about the story and it's about the experience of the narrator rather than the story itself. 
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Jun 5, 2022 21:46
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I love season 1, I think it's great, I've listened to it three times but I accept that reality doesn't make sense and I feel no need to impose the illusion of order or meaning onto a stochastic universe if that's not you, you might not like it if you can reconcile with the simple reality that cause cannot be retroactively determined by examining effect, serial season 1 is a compelling exploration of how messy and nonsensical real world mysteries actually are, where (minor, vague spoilers) the man who discovers a dead body turns out to be a serial sex offender with a history of indecent exposure, but this has nothing to do with the murder, an emotional and evocative clifftop confession turns out to probably have never happened, an extremely important phone call was placed on a parking lot payphone that might never have existed, a child witness with a very specific and unlikely story bullishly recants and denies that he ever made such a claim, a famously competent defense attorney appears to have quietly been consumed by her own mystery drowning in debt and neglecting her casework for unknown reasons, and federal agents solemnly affirm to the reporter investigating that the truth has almost no bearing on the outcome of a case. I like to compare it to the movie Mulholland Drive- it has all the feel of a mystery, but none of the satisfying answers if you prefer concrete answers, the good version of Serial is an hbo documentary called The Jinx, and it's satisfying because the people making it knowingly sat on evidence and willfully obfuscated information to make the audience believe that the reality was more uncertain than it actually was Cubone fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Jun 5, 2022 |
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Jun 5, 2022 21:59
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Brother Tadger posted:They’re bad, OP. it’s like how they turn what would be a tight/good 30minute-1 hour documentary into a bloated incomprehensible 10 part “mini”series with lots of unnecessary faux drama and worthless interstitial interviews with a lot of “hmmm? Hmmm!”blabber. Honestly, just read the wiki entry for each event and you’re just as well informed but saved yourself about 10 hours housewives LOVE it!!!
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Jun 5, 2022 22:08
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I listened to the first season and they never said if he really did it or not I also listened to their offshoot about the racist school district but dropped it around episode 4
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Jun 5, 2022 22:13
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Id' be kinda like this matters to me and then making life choices so it didn't any more. like just bad news, bad poo poo to be caring about this literal poo poo
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Jun 5, 2022 22:14
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bar88537 posted:Serious post: I noticed that Serial started a trend where the narrator tells the story of how they discovered and felt about the story and it's about the experience of the narrator rather than the story itself. it’s narcissistic navel gazing shite
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Jun 5, 2022 22:15
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there should be a podcast where they discuss different kinds of oranges called 'navel gazing'
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Jun 5, 2022 22:40
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Mozi posted:there should be a podcast where they discuss different kinds of oranges called 'navel gazing' this is a good joke
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Jun 5, 2022 22:43
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm biased because I'm Asian but a small segment of the first season really bothered me. The host was so surprised and delighted that the girl, Hae Min Lee, was such a normal teen girl. Like she expected Asian girls to lead compeltely different lives even though they live in the US. Yeah she liked boy bands and hanging out at malls. Why is that a surprise. It's like when white people are amazed that minorities can speak English. Yeah, as a fellow Asian the entire series might as well be "Brown people have inner lives and dual personas whaaaaaaaaaaaa?"
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Jun 5, 2022 23:36
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Why are people always gettin’ the hots for their research topics?
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Jun 5, 2022 23:48
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its the story of liberal arts white lady falling in love with tough prison brown man even though he is a legit murderer
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Jun 6, 2022 02:51
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Cereal is better.
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I continue to listen to S-Town the whole way through every couple years, that's some of the same people
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Cubone posted:
This is a good summary, OP, inasmuch as if you find any of these factoids super interesting Serial is probably for you, but also you're just factually wrong I live in the neighborhood season 1 is all about so every NPR totebag I meet hears the name Leakin Park and goes through the same little dance where they want to talk to me about Serial and then immediately realize there's nothing to say about Serial A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Jun 6, 2022 |
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Jun 6, 2022 03:27
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bar88537 posted:Serious post: I noticed that Serial started a trend where the narrator tells the story of how they discovered and felt about the story and it's about the experience of the narrator rather than the story itself. Flowers for QAnon posted:Why are people always gettin’ the hots for their research topics? These two are pretty good sentiments on my memory of Serial. I don't remember the weird Asian novelty fawning, but I'm white as hell so that's probably on me. If you want a good season-long crime drama, OP, try American Vandal.
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Jun 6, 2022 03:56
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Serial Mom? For some reason I watched that VHS like a dozen times as a child. Probably hosed me up. One of Johmn Waters' best
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Jun 6, 2022 04:04
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always felt a kinship with the alcoholic streaker school janitor
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Jun 6, 2022 04:12
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I hear this wall movie has toads in it.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:This is a good
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olylifter posted:I continue to listen to S-Town the whole way through every couple years, that's some of the same people I did like this one.
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I heard an ad for a true crime podcast where a guy talks about the death of his sister in law, and the ad had this dramatic lurid music. It made me kinda sick that this guy would try to use the death of his brother's wife to create some lovely sensational story and try to make some money broadcasting his lovely podcast to so many people, Serial is really to blame for that pathetic nonsense.
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Jun 7, 2022 03:56
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This American Life got really bad after she left to do serial, not that it was very good before but it had a good story once in awhile
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Jun 7, 2022 04:19
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hot date tonight! posted:This American Life got really bad after she left to do serial, not that it was very good before but it had a good story once in awhile TAL just can’t hold my interest anymore. I don’t know if I outgrew it or if it just became worse.
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Caesar Saladin posted:I heard an ad for a true crime podcast where a guy talks about the death of his sister in law, and the ad had this dramatic lurid music. It made me kinda sick that this guy would try to use the death of his brother's wife to create some lovely sensational story and try to make some money broadcasting his lovely podcast to so many people, Serial is really to blame for that pathetic nonsense. But before we get into the details of my sister-in-law’s death I want to take a moment to talk to you about MeUndies.
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Jun 7, 2022 09:12
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to catc a theif
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Sometimes you need a break, and sometimes that break is a clean one and you never look back
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Jun 7, 2022 10:38
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I need 2 or 3 people on a podcast or youtube video to tell me about the movies I will never end up watching.
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Jun 7, 2022 11:53
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Izzhov posted:I never listened to Serial, but everyone says it's a big deal, hugely important for the history of true crime dramas... but no one ever says if it's *good*. what's with your shithouse of an avatar
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Jun 7, 2022 12:16
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Caesar Saladin posted:its the story of liberal arts white lady falling in love with tough prison brown man even though he is a legit murderer My wife is listening to Season 1 for the first time and asked me if they end up dating. I never picked up on those vibes the first time I listened to it, but they must be pretty strong. I loved Season 1 the first time I heard it, dropped out of Season 2 almost immediately and never went back. Season 1 is still pretty good from the bits I'm listening to again with my wife, but there have been better true crime podcasts since then. There's also the assumption that the listener knows nothing about the legal system. I think that was probably true at the time, but nowadays people devour true crime stuff and could definitely skip through a lot of the basics that get discussed here.
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I thought it sucked and didn't finish it op
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