Serial

by Serial Productions & The New York Times
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Our new podcast, “The Good Whale,” is out now. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it here: https://lnk.to/good-whaleSerial 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 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.

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  • samgrace15
    NYT is a menace
    absolutely horrific behavior retroactively moving so much of your content behind a paywall when it’s been available for free for years now
  • kylen faye
    Great Season 13!
    Serial does it again with a lovely season 13 about Keiko.
  • a198612061
    Paywall, seriously?
    So the New York Times is trying to kill all of their podcasts simultaneously? I save series like this with a narrative to listen to all at once but since most of those saved episodes have been yanked behind a paywall I guess I’ll just quit listening. There are plenty of other options available.
  • Crump, T.
    Shame….
    I’m so tired of these podcasts trying to make a bigger cash grab. You have ads and now I have to subscribe to the NYT?? I’m in Atlanta, thanks but no thanks. What a complete waste of what was a good show. Way too many podcasts to have to pay for this one. Serial has gone the way of Wondery and sold out for corporate greed. At least we now know they can no longer be objective and unbiased since they are chasing the almighty dollar.
  • JessW84
    Hosts Voice for Kids of Rutherford Is Hard to Listen To
    I had to stop listening 7 minutes into the first episode because the voice was so hard to listen to. I’ve listened to a lot of vocal fry podcasts and managed to get through them but this one…cringy.
  • Tclev99
    NYT subscribers only
    I refuse to give money to a “news”paper who helped turn America into a fascist country
  • Uslayme2021
    NYT current subscriber-can’t do upgrade to add podcast access
    Nice. Offer to add listening to podcast for subscribers only includes new subscribers. I will go listen to my Patreon programs that I support and some of the 50 other podcasts I follow. Maybe cancel NYT and subscribe to more local papers? $18 mo can go a long way. WaPo cancelled and added new podcasts. My money , my choice.
  • Bschora
    Bye-Bye Serial. Sob.
    Nice White Parents… Hmm. Snoozer. It’s just not for me. All the other seasons were great. What happened? —- now they’ve gone subscription only…. Boo. There are 240+ podcasts in my queue, imagine if I even paid them all $1 a month? The only way I can make this work is putting up with ads.
  • No Nick to Name
    No longer special.
    I would have totally paid to listen to season one but this show has lost its magic. Listened to the free episodes and none of them enthralled me enough to subscribe, especially with multiple free options that tell the same stories.
  • truecrimemoni
    I really tried… but couldn’t continue
    I’m sorry, maybe I’m being hyper sensitive to the sounds, but the slight groan and drag on of the last word of each sentence is just cringy. I wish I could push through it, because the subject matter sounded interesting. The voice is awful, can’t finish this one.
  • 654258996
    Season 12
    Imagine paying to listen to this insufferable, smug and up talking host.
  • TheIMR
    Unsatisfying Season 10
    Hard to understand why we needed this many episodes to learn that there is no answer to a cold case. All the tricks of building suspense and teasing the possibility of a reversal of expectations came into play. But it ended with a shrug. Good storytelling doesn’t make up for the lack of a story.
  • alyshakt
    S-Town is a magnificent unmatched story
    I have never been as moved as S-Town in my entire life. I listen to a lot of podcasts and I've been chasing the depth and story telling of S-Town for YEARS. I've listened to it 2+ times (and if you're a code nerd, the website has some Easter eggs in the code)
  • Tilli1365
    Disappointed
    I loved this series forever since it first started. This was my go to and favorite series. Then about season 4 or 5, you only get to listen to the first 2 episodes. Then you have to subscribe to something or other. I don’t have any extra $$ after my budget. So I have just deleted the app. What a shame.
  • WyldChelsea
    Can’t get thru the first episode
    Can you PLEASE redo this podcast in someone else’s voice? I bought the NYT subscription to listen to this and I can’t even listen to it. All I hear is the voice.
  • BSCSP500MTZMD
    No podcast -?
    What a scam
  • OpossumJunkie
    Subscription, really?
    Serial was the first podcast I ever listened to, and I enjoyed it very much when it was available to all for free. I’d be more than happy to listen to advertisements from sponsors, but making people subscribe to listen to something that was once free is shady and out of sheer principle I will no longer listen or support it. ✌🏻
  • idontknowY
    The best podcast
    Changed my review to 1 star due to paywall. If we don’t fight paid podcasts now we’ll have to pay tons for them all in the future.
  • Hellogoodbye519
    Whoever voices for season 12
    Did you guys even review season 12? The tone of voice and articulationehhh just sounds like she doesn’t carehh and is gohhssipingehh about some randomehh high schoolehh dramahhh.
  • N RN
    No to NYT
    Enjoyed first 2 episodes of second S town. Loved the first Stown . Will definitely NOT be a NYT subscriber. It’s almost impossible to dump their subscription as I did several ago. A No. for me Dawg.
  • Daisy May Rose
    Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should
    Paywall after 2 teaser episodes? In a medium that, thanks in part to this very podcast, has historically been free? This is a trend I will not participate in and think, quite frankly, that a Serial-esque investigation into who thought this was a good idea and who didn’t stop them needs to be done. I’m out.
  • RandyS PDX
    Good, but...
    I really enjoy the podcast and think it’s well done, but there is no way I’m going tp pay a monthly fee in order to listen to all the episodes. Very unfortunate.
  • RGC II
    Serial sold out
    Definitely the one of the best podcasts out there but unfortunately sold out to corporate greed
  • SLMGa10
    Paywall?? Ugh
    Losing access to the podcast that started so many folks’ love of podcasts is SO sad. The content all being framed as new seasons is confusing. Really disappointed that season 4 ends for me right in the middle, at a paywall- and without warning.
  • Mieggs
    Now there’s fees
    Used to listen to the show years ago when the whole show was free Now the whole show there’s a fee to listen to it. Lost a follower Wanted to see what’s new with the show since I listened to it last not anymore
  • Yayguymanhandsomeboy
    Greedy
    Loved S1 and 2 now everything has gone behind a paywall when it was free for years. Now getting tons of notifications as they reupload and paywall their tons of episodes
  • Brendan Keene
    Been listening for 7 years. No more
    Paywall was the last straw too many other free options.
  • LT51_51
    Horrible Host Radio Crackle
    Incredible research and content. Delivery is painful though as host Maribah Knight’s radio crackle at the end of every sentence is really hard to listen to.
  • AReedy19
    Disappointed
    The Podcast that started my love for Podcasts 7 years ago now behind a pay wall.
  • Ella Marie.
    I hate the New York Times for ruining this
    I used to LOOOOOOOOVE Serial. To the point I listened to EVERY episode. Now I have to pay to listen? No thanks. Never again.
  • Feralkat3308
    Sad to see a subscription fee
    This is my favorite podcast but I won’t be listening anymore due to the subscription fee. Very sad since I already pay a fee to Spotify to listen and won’t be able to afford both. I’m sure many people will also have to stop listening. It was good while it lasted.
  • heatherd11
    IS NYT OK?
    This subscriber only program is really stupid! Are your shareholders and Maggie Haberman not rich enough from your promotion of the demise of democracy? Now you take away our Serial pod? GROSS
  • Cool Doctor Money
    Failing NYT at it Again
    I loved most of these podcasts, but the failing NYT has now moved them behind their pay wall. Only a sucker will pay for podcasts.
  • johnkemnetz
    Ruined for existing fans
    The complete overhaul of the Serial podcast feed to promote the New York Times’ new subscription has ruined my feed and bloated it with repeat content framed as “new seasons” that have never been Serial seasons before.
  • Blueybingo567
    Monetary Greed
    I can’t believe they are charging to listen to this show.
  • minimoose_21
    Paywall is a no
    Loved it but now that it is behind a pay wall no thank you.
  • S00san RR
    Another jarring season
    The problem with Serial is the bar it sets for all other podcasts. Season 4 provides a candid and uncomfortable look into an unsettled physical and emotional place in modern U.S. history. It left this listener rife with conflict and sadness for the continued pain and confusion surrounding 9/11.
  • TheRealDCBJ
    Riveting. Incredible. Sensational.
    I’ve loved Serial since the very first case, but Season Three was a MASTERCLASS in crime podcasting. I loved every single minute of this season and I’m devastated it’s done. More than anything, it makes me want to do something!
  • Tobi_7223
    Captivating
    Crime Junkie sent me here before I listened to one of their episodes and I’m so glad I did!! I love true crime and this is a very captivating case! Love it!
  • Coding has
    I appreciate the non-biased approach
    I love listening. I appreciate the investigating, the thoroughness, and the delivery of this series. I also appreciate that it shows both sides of the fence. To be honest though, as an American tax paying citizen, how can it not anger anyone the time, money, effort put into the search of such a selfish individual? I’ll keep listening because I want to know what this person has done with his life in hopes that he is trying to correct his wrong.
  • SpicySoup022
    Cool Podcast
    Super nice listen on the weekends
  • Flurbil
    Brilliant
    Thank you for reporting on this!
  • Kmruppe
    I didn’t think these could get worse….
    This is PAINFUL! What is even the point of this research? They located whomever they could find to fit their so obvious liberal narrative of gitmo. I really didn’t think this series could get worse than the last podcast, but they’ve succeeded. I couldn’t even get through episode two. Again, I ask what is the end purpose of this ?! Hindsight is 20/20… things were done at the time to keep our country safe, never mind what these ppl are doing to our soldiers and their own ppl. This is a disgrace. Do not waste your time! I was so looking forward to Sarah (as I love her speaking voice) but she’s hardly even on.
  • jfhhdjwidhhs
    Season 1
    Sarah Koenig is CLEARLY biased and wants so desperately to make us believe that Anand is innocent. If it walk like a duck and talks like a duck.. it’s a DUCK
  • AB13Z
    Worth The Listen
    As a current long standing military member and someone who definitely sits on the other side of the aisle from the political perspectives of this show, it does make you take a second to think about what they present. In the end I don’t agree with many of their viewpoints in this series, but it was well done.
  • Jonnyboy4965
    Colleen and her cohorts are traitors
    9/11 families for a peaceful tomorrow is a horrible organization. They should disband immediately. You don’t represent us, Colleen.
  • Stevemindyl
    Not sure
    I loved the first three but I have so many questions about this season. I’m not sure how I feel about them now.
  • Seery1979
    Bravo
    As always you’ve done a stellar job of explaining an incredibly complicated and emotionally provocative situation. Appreciate the work done to bring us this information.
  • jacar334
    Serial Season 4
    Wow, eye opening for those of us who have forgotten the entire episode in history. To be fair I wasn’t completely concerned about the torture after all we were attacked and need answers, but ultimately, as a human being torture is horrible and I believe (I don’t have the reference)it’s been proven that torture doesn’t work. We have to be better than that, but my perspective is not affected by losing someone in 9/11/2001. It’s complicated and we don’t seem to be able to close this chapter for the victims, the victims families and the perpetrators of the day. We have been spoiled or lucky or both that we haven’t been attacked on our soil since December 7, 1941. I know this, not all people are bad regardless of country, culture, religion, etc. It’s a pretty basic concept, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. The folks at serial have delivered in this series! Thank you!
  • SLS410
    Terrorist Sympathizers
    Honestly, what is with these people? Their reporting would have you think these are innocent civilians being imprisoned. They seem to be forgetting these are evil people who have done evil things and submit themselves to evil regimes, and are happy to protect the regime even after being captured! Between Adnan, Bergdahl, and this, why don’t you just go ahead and say you hate justice? Ridiculously tone-deaf and irresponsible reporting. Throw the whole thing away.
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