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Re:Adnan Syed, of ‘Serial’ Podcast, Gets a Retrial in Murder... by subpixel on Thursday June 30, 2016 @05:47PM (#12012049)
I agree, but I give them credit for attempting to do what they ultimately did not pull off: to find a smoking gun that changes a murder case, in near-real-time, for an audience of millions.

As a listener, this meant I honestly felt like I had wasted a huge amount of time on the show.

But I was rooting for them right up to the point at which I began cursing them.

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Re:Adnan Syed, of ‘Serial’ Podcast, Gets a Retrial in Murder... by jonknee on Thursday June 30, 2016 @06:51PM (#12012469)
The fact that he now has a new trial should be enough to make up for that. The "smoking gun" was that there was no real case against him, but he was convicted and in jail.
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Re:Adnan Syed, of ‘Serial’ Podcast, Gets a Retrial in Murder... by 7Z7 on Thursday June 30, 2016 @07:18PM (#12012643)
>As a listener, this meant I honestly felt like I had wasted a huge amount of time on the show.

That seems like such a weird conclusion to me.

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Re:Adnan Syed, of ‘Serial’ Podcast, Gets a Retrial in Murder... by subpixel on Thursday June 30, 2016 @11:16PM (#12013668)
The show was packaged up and delivered as titillating entertainment. A first-person radio whodunnit for the post-radio age.

So, many weeks later, when the final word was "gosh maybe we'll never know!", I felt like I'd clicked on a series of those "What happened next will shock you!" headlines.

A compelling story reaching the same conclusion probably could have been handled in a single episode.

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Re:Adnan Syed, of ‘Serial’ Podcast, Gets a Retrial in Murder... by madeofpalk on Friday July 01, 2016 @09:41AM (#12015915)
> So, many weeks later, when the final word was "gosh maybe we'll never know!"

But... that's the point. The finally episode spells this out very explicitly - although they can't say either way whether he did it or not, they found they don't have sufficient proof they he did commit the crime he was convicted for, and therefore does not deserve to be in jail.

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Re:Adnan Syed, of ‘Serial’ Podcast, Gets a Retrial in Murder... by rhizome on Thursday June 30, 2016 @10:29PM (#12013516)
What both series were good at pointing out was the nature of a fair trial, and how each case fell short.
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