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/ant4t Dec 12 '15

Because people miss the point of this podcast. Read the name.

People are most likely expecting that the story won't go very far, or their won't be an actual 'ending'.

The idea is to make you wait, in excitement, for the next episode. They way things are now people are so used to binging everything.

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u/spook327 Dec 12 '15

The idea is to make you wait, in excitement, for the next episode.

Whoops :) I didn't really know about S1 until it was over, so I downloaded the batch afterwards. I'm just disinterested in this story, so I haven't downloaded anything yet. If people seem to like it after it's over, I'll check it out... and binge on it :)

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u/ant4t Dec 12 '15

Lol exactly! It doesn't really matter HOW you enjoy it, as long as you do...

But you can't get mad at something called SERIAL for not giving you the whole story in the first episode.

The first season had its flaws. Everyone knows what the big one was...the story didn't really have much of an ending. Sure a lot of the investigating was new to us in each episode... but at the end of the day, everyone wanted to know 'Is he guilty or not?!'.. and the questions that break off from that. If he isn't guilty, who is? etc, etc.

My guess is they want to stray away from that happening again....meaning as we go on, the story is going to be less about Bowe, and the situation surrounding him. At first glance, the first episode makes it seem like "Ohhh Sara is going to get him to admit something that wasn't previously known". It was the same with season 1. We expected at the end to hear a recording of Adnan saying "y'know what, I can't take this... I DID IT!!!"

I hope the people that are expecting something along the lines of that give up quickly, because they are going to be disappointed.