SERIAL EPISODE 11 GENIUS SERIAL

Some of the rumors that reach Koenig are silly and easily dismissed. Adnan’s community is overwhelmingly supportive of him, but negative rumors continue to swirl about and around him - off the record, of course. How do we trust our own judgment - as reporters, storytellers, or simply as human beings - when we can be so very wrong, even about the people we think we know best? Three points about this episode:ġ. What are we capable of? Could someone who everyone generally agrees is a good guy strangle his girlfriend with his bare hands and then hang out, smoking pot with his friends, while her corpse freezes in his trunk? It seems that what drew Sarah Koenig to the case is not necessarily the specific mystery of who killed Hae Min Lee but a larger mystery about the human condition. Could any of us “snap” and kill someone, or does a person have to be insane in some way - perhaps a psychopath - to be a murderer? S? Jay?) Instead, Sarah Koenig asks overarching questions about humanity.

SERIAL EPISODE 11 GENIUS SERIAL

(A serial killer? Hae’s boyfriend at the time? Mr. We hear almost nothing about the victim, Hae, or other possible suspects. This discursive penultimate episode doesn’t offer much in terms of new facts about the case. Relitigating the case before the people’s court is host Sarah Koenig. Based almost exclusively on the testimony of a fellow high-school student named Jay, her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed was sentenced to life in prison for the crime.

Hae Min Lee, a Korean-American teenager in Baltimore, was strangled to death in January 1999. “Serial” is the podcast of the year, an absorbing dive into a closed case, told in roughly 40-minute weekly installments.

Serial episode 11 genius