Reply to “The Mansion Murders” podcast

Forum Index » Entertainment and Pop Culture

Reply to "“The Mansion Murders” podcast"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, well, skipping over the person who thinks we're awful people.....

I listened to the promo for the show today and found it off-putting.  For one thing, she referred to Went as "a major character in the story."  Or, you know, a murderer in a horrific case.  Or to be more accurate, a suspected murderer.  He's not a character in a story.

I listen to a fair amount of true crime podcasts.  I think there is a lot to learn from true crime and the best podcasts manage to tell a coherent, compelling story that not only bears witness to a horrible crime, but also illustrates larger points in society.  I'm thinking of who killed Alberta Williams, about an area in Canada where many many indigenous women have been found murdered.  Or even Serial season 1 which may have been a wrongful conviction, or Up and Vanished which may have brought enough attention to a cold case to actually solve the case.  Or Accused, which focused on false confessions, and the lack of progress in a cold case once the initial suspect was (rightly) found not guilty of murder, despite his (false) confession.

I think most of the better true crime podcasts come from existing media outlets, like Alberta Williams, or Breakdown from the Atlantic Journal Constitution, Accused from a Cincinnati newspaper, etc.

In fact, I just started listening to Dirty John today and that was done by the LA Times, I think.  The bottom line is writing is what really distinguishes a good podcast.  And the writing on the promo was.....not good.  It sounded like Sarah Fraser just prattling on about interesting characters.  Not a compelling, serious look into an open investigation.

Breakdown from the Atlanta Journal Constitution is one of the few I can think of that did the podcast before (and during) the trail (for season 2).  I think it is a very tricky, nuanced path to walk before the investigation is concluded and the trial is over.  Based on the promo, I am skeptical of the podcast.  But I will listen because i think this is an important case and needs more attention.

[/quote]

Just to digress for a minute.  Someone Knows Something is coming out with two more seasons.  I think the CBC does excellent work.  Up and Vanished is good and I have liked the shoot off Sworn (skip the first case...zzzzzz).  Dirty John was good but not great.  Haven't started Breakdown.  Thanks for that tip![/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics