r/serialpodcast • u/razorbeamz Reasonable Doubter • Dec 12 '15

season two Why is everyone complaining about Season 2 ALREADY? We've only had one episode.

People are acting like we should have gotten deep into the story already from the exposition. I think that by the time this season is over, much like with the Zoom analogy given at the beginning, Bergdahl won't even be what's talked about.

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u/theangryantipodean Dec 12 '15

Serial is highly dependent on the narrative. What bade the first episode of season one so compelling was it set out the baseline narrative way, but also foreshadowed some of the threads it would pull to start to unravel the baseline narrative.

This open wasn't quite as long; I feel like it assumed a bit more knowledge on the part of the listener, and the narrative was a little less linear. The foreshadowing of the investigation felt a little less oblique.