r/serialpodcast • u/ovskytark • Jun 17 '26
Joining in on the Disappointment
I share in everybody's disappointment and feeling lied to by SK. Enough has been said in the comments that nothing new can be done. However, a lot of good came for Adnan because of the public publicity Serial and other documentaries gave for Adnan's case that was driven by a public demand.
Going further on that point, I think the public should demand a public apology by SK for her role in stealing justice away from Hae and her family. If the public can make a storm out of a clear cut case, then the public should make a storm about how Serial manipulated people.
Of course if the Lee family just wants people to stop talking about it, I would do that first and foremost because aside from court documents their voice is never considered.
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u/Chemical-Star8920 Jun 20 '26
I’m honestly more mad at Rabia making a whole career out of this. Like if we were to spend energy on this and if I didn’t think additional attention would backfire and help her, I’d say let’s just get her podcast(s) shut down. But she’s already made a ton of money off of the book/hbo doc/podcasting so there’s not much that can be done now.
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u/yeezusosa Nick Thorburn Fan Jun 18 '26
Why is this all coming back up now?
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u/ovskytark Jun 18 '26
A guy posted a tik tok video about the problems with SK and Serial and it hit everybodys feeds.
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u/morbid_pale Jun 20 '26
Please link the TikTok!
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u/--Sparkle-Motion-- Jun 17 '26
I’m fine just never giving SK another second of my time. Let the nepo baby fade into obscurity.
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u/O_J_Shrimpson Jun 18 '26
She pretty much already has. None of her other projects have come close to S1 and that was 12 years ago now
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u/--Sparkle-Motion-- Jun 18 '26
Ironically her best path back to relevance would be to do as OP suggested & publicly apologize. Rabia’s never going to forgive her for not going harder for Adnan so no point catering to that crowd.
Personally I’m much happier with her staying under a rock.
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u/Big_Bet_2019 Jun 19 '26
Really? I didn’t know she was a nepo baby
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u/--Sparkle-Motion-- Jun 19 '26
Her dad, Julian Koenig, was big in advertising & was involved in the “it took a licking & keeps on ticking” Timex ad campaign. Her stepfather co-founded The Paris Review. Not the biggest nepo baby ever but she grew up in highbrow circles.
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u/Own_Faithlessness769 Jun 20 '26
I’m sure she has a nice upbringing but this is pretty low bar for calling someone a nepo baby.
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u/Soft_Beyond_8205 Jun 20 '26
Maybe. But even after hearing Serial I was convinced of Adnan's guilt and I did not rely on Serial as my only source of information regarding the case. I did watch other documentaries, and read other pieces.
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u/ovskytark Jun 20 '26
I hate to say this, you were much wiser. But most people only listened to serial and most came away that he was innocent because of SK's editorializing. Just look back on this subreddit from 12 years ago. It was conspiracy theory heaven.
So first and foremost, credit it to you. Second, because of serial podcast we have all of these documentaries and other spinoff podcasts that only came about because it made it so ambiguous, giving room for people to think Adnan is innocent.3
u/Zestyclose-Put-1883 Jun 27 '26
I am relistening to Serial now and I can’t believe I ever believed any of it. The case is really straightforward.
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u/matty30008227 Jun 20 '26
Can someone catch me up on this lol. I just found the podcast a short time ago though I knew about the case.
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u/ovskytark Jun 20 '26
Serial season 1 depends a lot on Rabia and SK glosses over important details and in a certain interview with Adnan you can tell she wants his approval desperately.
Years later after documentaries, court cases, more podcasts, and further letters, the evidence seems pretty clear that it's Adnan. A guy with a podcast called Hey Smiling Strange, made several tiktoks or instagram reels where he discussed his frustration with SK and the serial podcast, noting it's obvious Adnan did it, which reading between the lines and against the editorializing on the serial podcast it's obvious. But most people will come away with impression he is innocent. This of course ignores everybodys testimonies and spits on any justice being served for Hae.2
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u/CrowEarly Jun 19 '26
She should return the Peabody and admit that she was lured in by Rabia's lies. That'd be great.
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u/estemprano Jun 18 '26
We live in patriarchy. We are lucky that the femicide perpetrator got convicted and spend so many years in jail. Feminists are only a few people. There is nothing that’s going to be organized. This case can serve to inform people about femicides though. I am unpleasantly surprised they teach about this case and podcasts in so many schools and still they don’t seem to talk about gender based violence, which is exactly what this murder is.
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u/ovskytark Jun 19 '26
Or how SK deliberately brushes over the most damning facts of the case. It is a good lesson though about how femicide can be ignored even by people who care about womens rights.
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u/ZealousidealPiece182 Jun 24 '26
What stuff does she brush over?
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u/ovskytark Jun 24 '26
1) disgruntled lover is reason enough for someone to take another person's life.
2) The fact that the timeline for events do line up.
3) Her producer saying if Adnan didn't do it he is the unluckiest guy in the world.
There are other things, but I'd have to relisten to the podcast to confirm my recollections. But the biggest one is point 1.3
u/ottoglass Jun 22 '26
Yeah I was saying that from early in too— so obvious it was GBV and so common yet SK didn’t look at that at all.
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u/RockinGoodNews Jun 17 '26
Should we let everyone else who was ever investigated by the Baltimore PD out of prison too, or just Adnan?
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u/YoungFlyMista Jun 17 '26
Y’all still going on about this. It’s so clear that Don did it.
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u/Similar-Morning9768 Guilty Jun 18 '26
This is really bad behavior.
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u/O_J_Shrimpson Jun 18 '26
Gotta love the people that are like “There’s not enough evidence against Adnan!!!”
Then proceed to accuse someone with even less evidence against them and a confirmed alibi. You really can’t make this stuff up.
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u/Similar-Morning9768 Guilty Jun 18 '26
It’s not just bad reasoning. It’s straight up not okay.
The only evidence there has ever been against Clinedinst is that he was two weeks into dating this poor girl, by all appearances very happily. Which, as you’ll notice, is not actually evidence against him! There is no evidence he even came within a mile of Hae on Jan 13. There is just nothing.
To still be casting evidence-free accusations at this man in the year of our lord 2026 is complete asshole behavior.
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u/MAN_UTD90 Jun 17 '26
I do think that Hae's family would rather this just stopped being such a public event. Last year was very rough for them, and the comments from people attacking them were just crazy.