Serial Response

I don’t tend to listen to podcasts a lot because I can’t sit still and I always feel like I need to be doing something, but I quite enjoyed listening to Serial while I worked on other things. I enjoyed it so much because I love investigative books, shows, movies, etc. For example, I like to watch Buzzfeed Unsolved because they cover the entire case, most likely visit the location but they also make it funny. Here is a link to all of their cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_Unsolved

Although I do enjoy reading actual books, I quite enjoyed listening to someone who is as invested in the story as I am. And the fact that you can hear how passionate she is to get to the truth, I definitively think that podcasts are great for true crime investigations among other things. I don’t really think that there are ups and downs to listening to podcasts in relation to books because I think it just depends on the person and their preferences. If they’re more of a visual learner, you might retain the information better if you’re reading it, but if you’re an auditory learner, podcasts will definitively be better because you can retain the information easier.

I think it’s really cool that during the podcast you got to hear from a bunch of different people that are apart of the case or in relation to the case, but I found it a bit weird that we never heard or talked about the families during the episode. I understand that they could be in later episodes but you would’ve thought that we would’ve heard at least something about it. I’ve also been reading some articles and they also almost never talk about their parents and how they feel on all of the podcasts and documentaries, but I found this one article talking about Hae Min Lee’s family speaking out after 17 years. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3437662/Family-Serial-victim-Hae-Min-Lee-says-convicted-killer-Adnan-Syed-destroyed-family-slams-podcast-s-fans-running-defend-him.html

The only thing that I found that I was kind of iffy about was how Asia McClain was able to remember what had happened so clearly 17 20 years ago. I understand that some days you can remember better than others because of significant events, but I think that only really applies to the past couple of years because there is no way that she remembered that day because of a snow storm and a lovers quarrel. Even if, as Sarah Koenig had suggested, she wrote down the events after Adnan Syed was convicted all those years ago, why would she still have them 20 years after the murder if she hadn’t really thought about it for those years? I just think that if he didn’t do it, Asia McClain’s alibi wouldn’t be able to prove if he’s innocent or not anyways.

After listening to the first episode, I am intrigued about this case because I had never heard about it before. I’ll most likely end up finishing the season before we even finished class. I think I’m hooked!

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