There was no smoking gun, no surprise witness, and no deathbed confessions. Listeners were left with the same thing they started with: the tragedy of a beautiful teenager’s life violently cut short, Adnan’s effortlessly charming voice and eerily peaceful, controlled demeanor, Sarah’s masterful manner of storytelling, and hours worth of whodunit evidence that didn’t close any loops or give closure, but only brought more lingering questions to the surface. But what the podcast did do was strip naked, in the cold light of day, a brutally flawed justice system. We live in the era of Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and countless wrongfully convicted currently languishing in prison cells from Guantanamo Bay to Pakistan’s notorious Death Row. Serial’s narrative is the ultimate exposé. It’s a gruesome tell-all memoir of shockingly questionable police tactics, unethically aggressive prosecutors, incompetent defense attorneys, shady key witnesses, half-assed evidence – all things lightly glazed with a pre-9/11, pre-Islamophobia veneer of racism.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 20:32:09 +0000
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