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Serial returns with a history of Guantánamo told by people who lived through key moments in Guantánamo’s evolution, who know things the rest of us don’t about what it’s like to be caught inside an improvised justice system.
Serial Productions makes narrative podcasts whose quality and innovation transformed the medium. “Serial” began in 2014 as a spinoff of the public radio show “This American Life.” In 2020, we joined the New York Times Company. Our shows have reached many millions of listeners and have won nearly every major journalism award for audio, including the first-ever Peabody Award given to a podcast.
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Poor Baby Raul
Maybe you have an idea in your head about what it was like to work at Guantánamo, one of the most notorious prisons in the world. Think again.
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The Special Project
In 2002, an elite interrogation team secretly staged Guantánamo’s most elaborate intel operation — to try to get a single detainee to talk.
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Ahmad the Iguana Feeder
An Arabic-speaking airman is sent to Guantánamo to translate, and soon finds himself at the center of a major scandal. Part 1: Suspicion swallows evidence.
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The Honeymooners
The case against a young airman gets even weirder when the government pulls in two fresh investigators. Part 2: A bride, an FBI agent, and a polygraph machine.
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The Big Chicken, Part 1
A new warden comes to Guantánamo and decides to make some changes. A prison’s a prison, he thinks. How hard could this be?
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Part 2, Asymmetry
After the worst happens at Guantánamo, the warden tries to explain it to the outside world – and to himself.
Customer Reviews
Amazing, limited content
When I listened to season one of Serial, I fell in love with it, as well as the entire true crime genre, and my love of true crime is unending, but, I was very dissatisfied when I found out that the other seasons of Serial deviated from the investigative theme of the first season, but, all in all, even though most of the show isn't what I expected, Serial was still a wonderful experience, I would definitely recommend it.
Season 4 is Good, Actually
I was shocked to read some of the reviews on Serial and Season 4. I have been a long time listener and I am not ashamed to admit Serial is a bit of a comfort thing for me so I feel pretty well acquainted with every season. I personally think Season 4 is the BEST season. I loved Serial 1, as other reviewers, because of the engaging story and the complex investigations. But Serial has always gone further than true crime and into the sociological and political reasons for how our systems work, and this has become the best part of the podcast and has steadily improved over seasons. Season 3 and 4 are superior to 1 and 2 in my opinion. I think the negative reviews on these seasons indicate a lack of empathy from many people for those suffering, especially regarding those who have done bad things. But just because someone has done harm doesn’t mean we should ignore their humanity, and I appreciate the dedication Sarah has in portraying it. She asks hard, undoetable, scary, personal questions and it breaks my heart that so few people can recognize capacity for change or growth. It breaks my heart that people still want retribution and violence instead of realizing that’s how we make things worse. I love that the Serial team questions and fact checks and speculates and references. I love the personal and the systemic episodes and I love watching them connect. And I think Season 4 rocks. I want another one ASAP!!!!!!
Serial Season 4
You can tell the host had an agenda and spent the entire podcast bashing the military.