By the simple virtue of clicking on this article, you fall into the first of two categories of humankind: the group of people who have, in the past months, stopped every person they know—hell, even strangers—forcing them to cease whatever they’re doing and listen to This American Life’s wildly popular spin-off podcast, the true crime thriller, Serial. It’s as cliché as being a concerned, hackneyed hipster with a penchant for niche media comes, but we are on the exact same page of life as far as Serial goes, and I love you.
News has come in today regarding Serial’s affable protagonist Adnan Syed—convicted in 1999 for murdering his ex girlfriend Hae Min Lee—Syed has been granted a rare appeal by a Maryland court.
On the Serial website today, the podcast’s host Sarah Koenig writes, “In Episode 10 of the podcast, I reported that this appeal was alive by a thread. Now, I’d say it’s more of a … well-made string, maybe. Like the nylon kind.”
The report, which you can find here, essentially stipulates that the Maryland appeals court has found the reasoning behind Syed’s appeal motion to be worth something: Syed, you’ll remember, took issue with his attorney Cristina Gutierrez—her failure to bring Syed’s alibi to trial, among other things.
Basically, keep those conspiracy theories a-comin’. There is virtually no word on what will fill the hours of Serial’s second season, to briefly kill time in between, Koenig featured on this fascinating panel on the ‘podcast explosion’ this week – watch below.
Via Serial.
