The Mysterious Mr. Epstein - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I am VERY picky about podcasts and I positively DEVOURED this one in one day! It’s a fascinating and unflinching- not to mention horrifying!- post-mortem of Epstein’s life, crimes, and ultimate death. Each episode fearlessly strips away the mountains of excuses and “buck-passing” of those who should and could have stopped the monster and lays bare the legal/judicial failings and free passes, financial shell games, extortion, and intricate web of political and personal grooming, manipulation, pay-offs, pattern of trading favors with those in power, and careful coercive control employed by Epstein to amass his fortune and gain his “Untouchable” status. The importance of this examination cannot be overstated! While the subject matter is often difficult to listen to, he is always respectful of the survivors of Epstein’s reprehensible crimes and we need to know how this happened in order to ensure that it never happens again, and it’s plain that THAT is the mission of this podcast.
The narration is engaging, -he doesn’t go off on too many tangents but he does interject at some points with appropriate comments that you’re almost certainly thinking yourself (for example, if there’s a quote from someone who’s lying through their teeth, he’ll say something like, “COME ON! We ALL know that’s a lie!”)- fast-paced, always clear, and easy to follow. With the energy of a drama, you will almost definitely be yelling at whichever device you’re using to listen to this podcast at pretty much every twist and turn!! I HIGHLY recommend this podcast, both for those who followed the story as it unfolded, as well as those who are thinking, “Jeffery who?”
Absolute 10/10 from me!

I have lost two husbands to cancer
and can identify with this story on so many points. I was Molly after the first time when I was 42 and had been married for 24 years. I was so at loose ends and wanted a connection of some kind and needed crazy sex all the time. I did things I would never had dreamed I could do and have never regretted my choices. After my second husband of 22 years died, I was much more sane and had had such a fulfilling marriage with him, I feel no one else could ever have my heart again. He will have it forever. After having had eight years of being wild and crazy, I had married the soulmate I had always dreamed of since my youth. Even though he has been gone for six years, he is with me every day and I look for his guidance in everything I do. Congrats on doing a podcast that shows the humorous side of cancer, because you need plenty of humor to endure what the different stages bring. You also captured the rawness of this gut-wrenching disease that makes you feel inside out at so many times during the journey. Everyone wishes to have you as a best friend. I loved this poignant story. Thank you.

Another 5 star podcast from Wondery - can’t recommend this enough. The story telling is excellent and gives enough detail to keep you listening but not so much that you get lost or bored. The only thing that could have made it better is if Jeffrey Epstein would have suffered all of the pain & anguish that his victims did.

I look forward to any Wondery podcast, but this one is especially important and revealing as this nation learns more about - and begins to accept - coercive control and male privilege as a REAL thing. Please listen and share!

Good story but way too many commercial interruptions which disturb the flow. Couldve been shortened to 2 episodes

What a mess. Can’t listen to all episodes in the series without jumping across multiple platforms (apple, Spotify, wondery site). When your business model is to get listener streams so you can sell ads and collect data, gotta do better to make sure people can even find you.