Podcast · Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube · 2014
Pass it on
Serial Productions · Serial Productions
Serial
46Watch it awake.
The reporting can be serious. The form makes a person's life a season.
The review
Serial taught a decade of listeners to want the next turn in a stranger's worst year. The first season did real work on a conviction. The habit it trained is the problem: a corpse, or a defendant, as the thing that makes the drive interesting.
If you listen, finish the case and stop. Do not let the next season be how the house does mystery.
Journal
Keep Serial in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Radiolab
58 instead of 46
Radiolab is still a podcast, and it scores 58 instead of 46. What you gain is temperance: An episode is a composition.
The eight
- 8Industry
She does the calls, the files, the boring hours.
- 4Household
The people in the case have houses. The show's house is the audience.
- 3Piety
Conscience is a plot beat. Suspense is the altar.
- 6Courage
She will say when the story turns on her.
- 4Republic
A trial is a civic thing. A season is a product.
- 3Temperance
One more episode is the design. A real case does not owe you a cliffhanger.
- 6Truth
Much of the tape is true. The week-to-week hunger is added.
- 3Stewardship
The people in it do not get their lives back when you are done listening.
Where to listen
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Serial · 46IMDb
