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Janerik Larsson
Janerik Larsson
Jag och miljoner andra måste vänta till den 4 december innan vi kan ta del av nästa avsnitt av podcasten Serial. Denna podcast har blivit en världssensation:
Serial is the fastest podcast to reach 5 million downloads and streams in iTunes history.
Daily Telegraph berättar:
For the past two months, quite a lot of us have been trying to solve a murder case. On crowded tube carriages, in the gym, while drifting off at night, we have pored over the evidence and attempted to make sense of a mystery to rival anything in the Agatha Christie canon.
Serial is the fastest podcast to reach 5 million downloads and streams in iTunes history.
Serial is a new podcast from the makers of the brilliant This American Life. Hosted by Sarah Koenig, the TAL veteran is looking at a murder case from 1999 in which a young high-school student, Hae Min Lee, was found dead in a Baltimore park having been strangled. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was charged with the crime and sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years. He has protested his innocence ever since.
This is The Wire of podcasts. Like the acclaimed television drama, it takes a novelistic approach. Just as one would not open a book in the middle and hope to understand what was going on, Serial needs to be listened to from episode one and in order. It cannot be dipped in and out of but, fortunately, one wouldn’t want to as it’s utterly addictive. Like The Wire, the series is predominantly concerned with crime and racial tension in Baltimore, it has redefined people’s expectations of the medium and, while David Simon’s masterpiece is considered by many to be the greatest TV show ever made, Serial might just be the best podcast.
Listening to the show is like watching one of cinema’s great documentaries but knowing there’ll be another instalment in a week’s time. The listener, like Koenig, cannot be sure whether the interviewees are telling the truth, lying outright or have had their memories distorted over the years. 15 years is a long time and high school seems a lifetime ago for most of the major players.
The most astonishing thing about the series is that Koenig is still working on the case. The host has no idea how long Serial might run or whether the conclusion will be satisfying.
”The Wire” är den mest spännande och engagerande TV-serie jag sett. Men ”Serial” är något annat. Det är en levande journalistik. Sarah Koenig borrar i det förfärliga mordet, talar med alla som på något sätt fanns med då och som vill tala med henne. Hon vet inte var detta ska sluta.
Att följa ”Serial” tar tid. Man måste, som Telegraph-journalisten skriver, lyssna till alla program som redan sänts för att komma in i detta journalistiska projekt. Men det är otroligt intressant !