Podcast

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

Our newest podcast, “The Last 12 Weeks” is out now. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts. Serial Productions makes narrative podcasts that have transformed the medium. Sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter to find out about new shows, get behind the scenes stories, and see photos and videos you can’t see on a podcast. To get full access to Serial Productions shows, and to other New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts. Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at serialshows@nytimes.com "Serial" began in 2014 as a spinoff of the public radio show "This American Life." In 2017, we formed Serial Productions when we launched the podcast “S-Town.” Since then, Serial Productions has produced every season of “Serial” along with shows like “Nice White Parents,” “The Trojan Horse Affair,” “The Coldest Case in Laramie,” “The Retrievals” and more. In 2020, we joined the New York Times Company. Our shows have reached many millions of listeners and have won nearly every major journalism award for audio, including the first-ever Peabody Award given to a podcast.

29 Hacker News mentions · 5 episodes

Episodes recommended on Hacker News

Why Hacker News recommends it

• Slate writers analyze Serial as a storytelling medium for true crime stories. Highly recommended.

  HN thread · malloreon · 0 points ↗

• Serial, 10 eps, was also very good.

  HN thread · rickdale · 0 points ↗

• Investigation about a crime, amazing podcast.

  HN thread · kassas · 0 points ↗

• I can't recommend Serial podcast enough.

  HN thread · andy_ppp · 0 points ↗

• Really interesting listen about a 1999 Baltimore murder case, a scary view into the criminal justice system.

  HN thread · 33W · 0 points ↗

• I don't actually enjoy crime stories usually, but Serial was absolutely gripping.

  HN thread · bemmu · 0 points ↗

• Lists Serial among podcasts that don't work better as articles, citing high production value as key to listenability.

  HN thread · evancordell · 0 points ↗

• Didn't expect a true-crime story about a random Baltimore murder to be interesting, but it's extremely well done. Strong recommend.

  HN thread · tptacek · 0 points ↗

• For more info and background on the Bergdahl story, check out season 2 of the Serial podcast.

  HN thread · kqr2 · 0 points ↗

• Serial is still very much worth a listen, a compelling portrait of how fragile our individual and collective memories are.

  HN thread · danso · 0 points ↗

• After listening to Serial, give Undisclosed a listen: it dives much deeper into the details of the court case, police records, and evidence.

  HN thread · thompo · 0 points ↗

• Have you listened to Serial? I was thinking this would be something like that

  HN thread · swah · 0 points ↗

• Recommended (both seasons).

  HN thread · hossbeast · 0 points ↗

• "Serial" - murder mystery

  HN thread · Jemaclus · 0 points ↗

• For a whole lot more, go listen to season 3 of the Serial podcast.

  HN thread · sdenton4 · 0 points ↗

• Just listen to serial podcast season3.

  HN thread · techVentureStar · 0 points ↗

• Recommends the documentary series "Leaving Home," especially the first episode, on the road from Wagner and Debussy to Schoenberg's serial works. Calls serialism a mind expander.

  HN thread · thanatropism · 0 points ↗

• Covered pretty well by season 3 of the Serial podcast, which explains how prosecutors pile on charges to force guilty pleas.

  HN thread · stevenwoo · 0 points ↗

• Serial - in depth look into a story

  HN thread · dantheman · 0 points ↗

• Season 3 of Serial is a pretty good starting place to learn how messed up the US legal system is.

  HN thread · kennywinker · 0 points ↗

• Serial is still one of the best true crime podcasts, because the case has so much more underneath the surface.

  HN thread · dayvid · 0 points ↗

• Season 3 of Serial as a starting place for understanding the harm police do to communities.

  HN thread · kennywinker · 0 points ↗

• I suggest everyone listen to the current season of the Serial podcast.

  HN thread · shmatt · 0 points ↗

• Shit town is the best of serial. Seriously listen to it if you haven't.

  HN thread · Loughla · 0 points ↗