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01-03-2015, 04:58 PM
Kept hearing how GREAT this was. So I downloaded the first few episodes. Is it just me, or is kinda for chicks? The one scene where she describes this one young female lawyer as "short, cute - but fierce - you wouldn't want to mess with her, she'll demolish you". Oh please - this is every americunt's fantasy about herself.
I'm halfway through episode one - should I continue??
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01-03-2015, 06:31 PM
Only people Ive heard talking it up are women. That's enough for me to stay away.
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01-03-2015, 06:37 PM
It's okay. Worth listening to if you have to drive somewhere.
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01-04-2015, 12:57 AM
Quote: (01-03-2015 06:37 PM)Checkmat Wrote:
It's okay. Worth listening to if you have to drive somewhere.
"OK" is kinda what I sensed...I was expecting it to be GREAT because it got so much buzz, but its narrated by a chick FOR chicks. Too much girl power in it for me. Its as unbelievable as Elektra or any other stupid girl super-hero movie where some small chick throws grown men around because , you know, grrlpower!
And I am only going to listen to the rest exactly as you say: I have a 15 hr drive in front of me next month, maybe i'll kill a few hours listening then. But otherwise, can't be bothered.
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01-04-2015, 01:18 AM
It's a spin off of This American Life - of course it sucks. I like NPR programs, but this american life is continuously the highest-rated, most boring, faux-high-brow, SJW-listened-to, bourgeois-elitist show ever. Whenever a This American Life show topic comes on that I'm interested in, within 5 minutes Ira Glass fucks it all up. Except that the narrator has changed gender, Serial is no different.
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01-04-2015, 01:23 AM
Serial is popular with SWPL's because it's a spin-off of NPR's This American Life podcast. I've never listened to This American Life or even heard of it before Serial, but Serial itself is fantastic. I would not write it off just because of what it span off from. It's not like Serial has anything to do with politics or feminism so it being narrated by a young Jewish liberal woman doesn't make any difference.
It is very addictive, if you keep going you'll probably demolish it all in a few days. The ending was anti-climatic though, but that was to be expected by the time you got there.
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01-04-2015, 09:56 AM
I've listened to the first four episodes. Like Checkmat said, it's worth listening to on a drive or on a plane, but don't set time aside for it.
It's certainly entertaining enough to hold your interest, but occasionally the narrator slips into "vocal fry" which can be grating.
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01-04-2015, 10:20 AM
Had a good friend I trust talk it up. Will take a listen.
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02-15-2015, 04:38 PM
The reason I listened to this podcast was because I live 20 minutes away from where all the stuff in this podcast was happening. Overall, I'd say it's a very good listen especially when you get to the later episodes and the best part is how it gets you thinking.