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Serial returns with a history of Guantánamo told by people who lived through key moments in Guantánamo’s evolution, who know things the rest of us don’t about what it’s like to be caught inside an improvised justice system.
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S04 - Trailer
From Serial Productions and The New York Times, Serial Season 4 is a history of Guantánamo told by people who lived through key moments in Guantánamo’s evolution, who know things the rest of us don’t about what it’s like to be caught inside an improvised justice system. Episodes 1 and 2 arrive Thursday, March 28.
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S04 - Ep. 1: Poor Baby Raul
Maybe you have an idea in your head about what it was like to work at Guantánamo, one of the most notorious prisons in the world. Think again.
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S04 - Ep. 2: The Special Project
In 2002, an elite interrogation team secretly staged Guantánamo’s most elaborate intel operation — to try to get a single detainee to talk.
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S04 - Ep. 3: Ahmad the Iguana Feeder
An Arabic-speaking airman is sent to Guantánamo to translate, and soon finds himself at the center of a major scandal. Part 1: Suspicion swallows evidence.
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S04 - Ep. 4: The Honeymooners
The case against a young airman gets even weirder when the government pulls in two fresh investigators. Part 2: A bride, an FBI agent, and a polygraph machine.
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S04 - Ep. 5: The Big Chicken, Part 1
A new warden comes to Guantánamo and decides to make some changes. A prison’s a prison, he thinks. How hard could this be?
Customer Reviews
Adnon’s Story & Beau Bergdahl story (Seasons 1 & 2)
Admin’s story was ok but not compelling. The season ended abruptly without “the rest of the story”.
Season 2 about Beau Bergdahl was excellent, which is why I’m giving the podcast 5 Stars. The history of Bergdahl was informative, balanced, and provided much information on a story that I always found confusing.
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Serial 4-4
I am and have been a New York Times subscriber for the past 10 years and have listened to all of the Serial series. The first one, the retrievals was so well done & riveting that I recommended it to many, many of my colleagues, friends and family.
Jumping to Serial 4 – the first three episodes were also quite good and sometimes riveting. Then I got to Serial 4–4 with Sarah being the host.
Regardless of how ridiculous she might think things are, it is not journalism to laugh at a guest in their face!! if you are perplexed, there are ways to deal with that as a journalist, but to laugh in someone’s face- for such a long time?!?!
How do you ever expect someone to come on your show again – I certainly never would. I don’t think I could ever listen to a show that she hosts again.
On top of this, she prefaces what she thinks is totally a ridiculous waste of taxpayer money- WAY in advance, therefore biasing the listeners before finally revealing the fact that he was contemplating committing suicide. Once again, I found that an extremely inappropriate thing for a “journalist ” to do. Is she insane?What are the editors doing?.
Unfortunately, I could never listen or waste my time on her again, possibly never this series again!
NYT- you should be ashamed of yourself to have let that pass!!!
This series went from five stars to one. I wish there was an option for zero stars.!
Broken promise
I like this American life, and Ira promised this would be a surprising story.
Nope. They mentioned that they did a lot of this work in 2015 and let it sit. Should’ve left it there.
It’s not the politics, it’s the lack of news. Everyone knows this stuff, it’s not new. “Gitmo was unmonitored abuse for people who couldn’t be proven guilty of anything.” Is that supposed to be shocking? Yeah, literally everyone knows that. Welcome to 2006.
This is lazy. They couldn’t think of anything, they had this unusable material. They threw it together.