![]() ![]() When Sarah spoke to him, he seemed defeated, exhausted, destroyed. ![]() His answers to the questions change so constantly that no one actually knows what his story is, there are five versions and counting. That whole incident where he wanted to stab his friend just for fun, that doesnt seem like just random playing around to me. Then, you add in the fact that he cannot keep his story straight, even after all this time.Įven after Serial he came forward with yet ANOTHER version of events. He was, in any version of events, the one helping to put her body in the ground. The following paragraphs are adapted from some comments I made in a Facebook discussion about the show. ![]() It turned out to be entirely non-fiction, and is the story of the murder of a teenage girl in 1999, and one reporters efforts to truly understand everything that happened, and whether or not the man convicted of her murder was truly guilty. I had no idea what the show was about, and I actually assumed it was something more like Welcome To Night Vale of Thrilling Adventure Hour, so when I started the show I assumed it was fictional. ![]() I knew absolutely nothing about Serial other than that it was an incredibly popular podcast. Its actually really cool, I dont mean to sound down on it, but I was getting frustrated because I wanted something with a genuine narrative. Occasionally there are other characters speaking, and it seems like most often they happen during the live episodes, but for the most part its just Cecil speaking, and there isnt really a concrete narrative, mostly just endless descriptions of the town in Lovecraftian detail. I started listening, but I was a little aggravated by the format, I was hoping for something closer to an actual radio play, whereas Welcome to Night Vale is mostly told via a single character speaking through the towns radio news broadcast. ![]()
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