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[delphica]

I don't listen to a lot of podcasts, but the one that I've been the most avid about is Serial, which means that the streaming service is always trying to recommend other types of true crime stories, in that "if you enjoyed Serial, you might like ... " way. But I probably won't necessarily, I'm not that into true crime on its own. However, I did

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[delphica]

I was just thinking about Serial. The second season almost felt like a different show to me. It didn't have the same hook, where I was on the edge of my seat all the time, as the first season.

But like you, I still enjoyed it. I felt like it was half the story of that guy. Right, should NEVER have joined the military, and I would say should never have been ALLOWED to join the military ... but I recognized a lot of things about him from dudes I remember from high school/college, like very into the lofty concept of "the military" but there seemed like a big disconnect with the idea that a lot of being in the military (from my limited understanding) is about doing crap you're not particularly interested in or personally committed to, with people you don't necessarily like. But it makes me wonder if there are a lot of guys like that stewing around in the armed forces; and it just happened that this one guy, of many, was in the wrong time and place to act on his weird ideas.

The other half was probably more useful to me personally, because I am a bad person who slacks on following the news when it is too complicated and yeah, so my understanding of the the nuances of the war in Afghanistan was sketchy at best. It was good for my personal edification to get some additional information about the various factions and how Pakistan comes into things ... but that felt more like, hmm, attending a decently solid lecture than the "suspenseful entertainment" of the first season. Then I reflected on whether or not it was right for a girl's murder to be my entertainment, suspenseful or otherwise.

And yep, this Canadian thing is somewhat interesting enough to noodle over how Canadian everybody sounds, but it's not like I'm saying it's SO good anyone should really make room in her line-up for it. If they find the kid by the end (40 years after the fact), I'll post an update, but since surely something like that would have made the real news, I'm strongly suspecting this is a "musing on the nature of the unknowable" story.