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Slate's Spoiler Specials

Serial Ep. 6: Slate's Spoiler Special

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Film Reviews,, Tv & Film

3.6724 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Slate’s David Haglund, Katy Waldman and Mike Pesca discuss “The Case Against Adnan Syed,” the sixth episode of Serial from This American Life. WARNING: This podcast is meant to be listened to after you’ve listened to the Serial episode.


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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.9

Previously on the serial spoiler special.

0:08.0

I definitely came into the episode wanting badly to believe that Jay did it.

0:13.9

Was it Adnan? Was it Jay? Was it someone else?

0:16.3

Adnan is so earnest. Like you can feel him wanting to convince Sarah.

0:21.5

The absence of modern day J is becoming more and more pressing to me in every episode.

0:26.7

It's a Slate Spoiler Special podcast, about another podcast.

0:32.6

So what was with the shrimp comment?

0:34.8

We don't know Dana. Who's Dana?

0:36.3

It felt like an episode that arose a little bit

0:38.2

out of a struggle

0:38.8

to understand

0:39.5

what was going on here.

0:40.5

I think they're still

0:41.6

figuring out this format,

0:42.9

which in some ways,

0:44.3

as far as I could tell,

0:45.1

is unprecedented.

0:46.0

This logistical explanation

0:47.8

episode

0:48.6

strained the audio

0:50.9

storytelling format.

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