Serial - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I’ve listened to every season. The thing that makes these podcasts different is the uncanny way they tell a story that gets you thinking about the complexities of life from a certain angle, then in the very next episode, they add details that have you reexamining your entire worldview. Excellent for developing critical thinking skills while being entertained by fascinating, human stories. As long as they keep recording, I’ll keep coming back for more.

The way this podcast is done and the stories they take on are important. It is insightful and enlightening, though it shouldn’t be as these stories shouldn’t have to exist in the first place. This is what America looks like and I am grateful that real people take the time to let others know about these extremely important issues that have huge consequences for real humans. At times it hurts, at others it makes me really angry, but it always makes me think. Please listen. Please. Also thank you to all of you that have a hand in making this great podcast!

This captures perfectly the complexity of feelings brought on by the pandemic. I’m sad for everything that Rachel and her family went through on top of an already complicated situation. I appreciate her vulnerability by sharing this story and the care to which Nancy Updike took to tell it. This wasn’t just another podcast to consume. This was someone letting the rest of us into her life.

I am a True Crime enthusiast and this is one of the most detailed re-telling of a case including great first hand investigative journalism with unbias coverage regarding this case, she certainly creates a vivid picture of the investigation as well as deep diving into the people associated with the case, thank you for what you do!

The vocal fry, the way the woman talks in the Rutherford county series, absolutely ruins the podcast. Letting your voice trail off and creep and drop down on every single sentence and phrase. Annoying, unprofessional, and I’ve heard her interviews in other formats and she talks completely normal. Making the production choice to perform and record this way is taking away from an important story. Just talk normal, please.

For someone who actually lost my dad in 9/11 and not after the fact, has been to gtmo. This podcast is dangerous to the case that we are currently trying to achieve to hold the mastermind accountable for. It’s a mockery to what is really going on and this podcast is nothing more than an attempt for clout. If you want to know the real gtmo, ask a 9/11 family member or a prosecutor not some podcaster who wants listeners. And any 9/11 family that participated in her podcast are for the peaceful tomorrows. We are the victims.