Deep Cover - Podcast Rankings and reviews

This podcast was at least 50 percent ads and 25 percent, “these questions, after the break” or, “next time…” I listened to the nameless man after seeing it recommended on a list of best podcasts of 2024, but if this is one of the best then we are really in trouble. Similarly to when people complain that a tv series could have been a movie, this would have been a great hour long conversation. Fast forwarding the ads won’t help me, because of all the filler about “the next episode “ etc that is more difficult to skip.

These episodes have too little content and too much foreshadowing. The episode entitled Grand Jury spent about 20 minutes ruminating over how the testimony and evidence might go over, then just jumps and say they issued an indictment. The rest of the time was ads: pointless, endless, painful and repetitive. If you want to punish those who don’t want to pay for the ad-free version, you are overdoing it.

This is a great podcast, and Season 4 is the best yet. It tells the story of how serendipity, hard work, and faith come together in a commitment to justice for a person and family who society otherwise might have preferred to ignore.

Season 4 of this show was previewed/introduced by another podcast I follow and it cued my interest. Just finished the season and I have to say, being empathetic (if I don’t say so myself) and in consuming criminal (in)justice/crime content for years, this podcast’s season gave me the closest feeling to the “unsettleness” of justice our system provides. The story was engaging, those interviewed relatable and human. I’ve never had this strong of an inclination to reach out to individual strangers featured on a podcast and can only attribute it to the storyteller’s skill in relating this tale.

I get having ads and an option for a plus option but when ads are half of the running time, that's too much. Not worth the listen when you have 3 minute blocks of commercials multiple times throughout the episode.

I swear this thing is at least half ads. You can barely remember what was happening in the story because of all the ad breaks. The reporting itself does not seem that interesting or groundbreaking either.