FanFare

Nice White Parents is baaaaasically Serial Season Four, coproduced by the New York Times. It follows the model of Season Three, focusing on a single institution enmeshed in a larger system, instead of an individual case. In this case, the past, present and future of a single Brooklyn school's history of failed integration attempts. [more inside]
posted by kaibutsu on Aug 22, 2020 - 5 comments

Directed by Academy Award-nominee Amy Berg, four-part documentary series The Case Against Adnan Syed explores the 1999 disappearance and murder of 18-year-old Baltimore County high school student Hae Min Lee, and the subsequent conviction of her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed — a case brought to global attention by the hugely popular Serial podcast.
posted by skewed on Mar 12, 2019 - 13 comments

A teenager decides to cooperate.
posted by eotvos on Nov 9, 2018 - 1 comment

"If you listen closely to the trash-talking, you start to get the message." Follow up on the cases of Jesse Nickerson, who feels he's continually harassed by police after winning a lawsuit against them, and Erimius Spencer, beaten by a cop subsequently fired for excessive force. [more inside]
posted by dnash on Oct 26, 2018 - 7 comments

This episode deals with two separate murders of young children in Cleveland. It’s not an easy listen. [more inside]
posted by Kattullus on Oct 4, 2018 - 4 comments

The smell of raw marijuana + acting nervous + hands in pockets = ? [more inside]
posted by dnash on Sep 28, 2018 - 4 comments

Brian Reed's novelistic reportage/show was released in full from the get-go. It's a tightly woven tale, with one chapter flowing into the next - here's where to discuss it as a whole. (Ep 1 thread here, ep 2 thread here.)
posted by progosk on Mar 29, 2017 - 107 comments

What's Bowe's fault, and what isn't? [more inside]
posted by dnash on Mar 31, 2016 - 14 comments

Are you hearing what I'm hearing?
posted by JimBennett on Mar 17, 2016 - 11 comments

Serial is going back to the Adnan Syed case for a few short daily episodes about a new hearing focusing on whether his trial lawyer was negligent. In this first episode, Asia McClain takes the stand.
posted by Kattullus on Feb 4, 2016 - 10 comments

Anybody interested in doing a FanFare for serial? We can pretend that it's a TV Show.
posted by Going To Maine on Oct 7, 2014 - 11 comments