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<\/a><\/p>\nLike, I get you have to kill that person. They wronged you, I understand. But did you need to do weird stuff with the body? Was that completely necessary? Cut them up? Shove the parts in a tree? Eat the remaining bits? It’s too much.<\/p>\n
True Crime Obsessed.<\/a> Here is the description from their site:<\/p>\n This podcast is a place for you to get even more information on all things true crime. We’ll be talking about\u00a0podcasts, documentaries, movies (as in “Zodiac”), books, television shows, you name it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n There is so much out there and we’re going to tell you about it in a knowledgeable and, let’s be honest, funny way. We will always be respectful but we’ll also sprinkle some levity in there because if we don’t we’ll all be miserable, depressed messes. These are the true crime conversations you’d have with your friends… if your friends didn’t think you were a total creep for wanting to watch “There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Diane”…\u00a0again.<\/em><\/p>\n It’s two people, Patrick Hinds and Gillian Pensavalle, two theater nerds who I believe host a Broadway\u00a0 musicals podcast together as well. They are gloriously sassy and opinionated and they ring a bell when they like someone (“Hero Bell!!!”) or when they do not like someone (“Garbage Bell!!!”) (it really helps that they announce what kind of emotion they’re conveying with the bell because it’s the same bell for both). True Crime Obsessed predominantly covers documentaries but they’ll branch out to other mediums on occasion. They have a Facebook page where they take suggestions. It’s about as much fun as you can have listening to horrific stories about liars and cheaters and murderers. I definitely recommend it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Criminal.<\/a> Here’s the description from their site:<\/p>\n Criminal launched January of 2014, and is based in Durham, North Carolina. New episodes come out twice a month, always on Fridays. In 2015, we won a Third Coast International Audio Festival \u201cBest Documentary\u201d award for our story, 695-BGK, and were chosen as an iTunes \u201cBest of 2015.\u201d In 2016, we were featured in \u201cBest of\u201d lists in Wired, The Atlantic, USA Today, and Rolling Stone. We travel all around the country to interview people, and sometimes take the show on the road to tell stories live.<\/em><\/p>\n “A true\u00ad crime podcast that understands crime as something sociological, historical, even anthropological \u2014 that crime is a function of people, time, and place. With incredible sound design, marvelous writing, and a boldness in the way it makes its choices, there are few shows that feel more alive.”\u00a0 \u2013Vulture<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n This is a very NPR-y type structure. The nice lady who hosts, Phoebe Judge, has a strong case of soothing NPR voice which for some reason I find wildly irritating. I feel compelled to post Patton Oswalt’s bit about NPR whenever I mention NPR.<\/a> However, I girded my loins and gritted my teeth and now I don’t even hear Phoebe’s vocal stylings at all. I built up a tolerance, I guess. It’s a well-researched show that interviews the victims (when possible because, you know, sometimes they’re dead) or the family members so it’s not second-hand. Unlike Serial each episode is its own entity which I did not realize until the third episode. I was SO confused. It’s an excellent podcast to listen to while you’re organizing files or color-correcting images. Interesting, engaging but not overly or unnecessarily dramatic. Also, someone draws a little descriptive sketch for each episode and I am a big fan of hiring illustrators in this day and age.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n