Nobody Should Believe Me

I was so engrossed in the first 3 seasons and enjoyed them immensely. As the 4th season moved along, I found myself wondering why so much time was devoted to this one story. It felt like it could have been wrapped up in half the number of episodes due to the amount of repetitive content. It took too long to get some points across, and there were SO MANY people involved in the story. I get that this is the nature of podcasts now but it does make for some tedious listening at times. I am looking forward to future seasons of NSBM. The content is very informative!

Season 4 really needs an editor (yawn)

The info about MBP has been fascinating and enlightening to hear in this podcast. What’s less clear is the narrative structure and journalism. The first few episodes were confusing - Hope’s story seems to be a proxy for her sister’s story - which she refers to incessantly, but never shares any details about. It took me 3 episodes to realize Hope is just a case the narrator followed that has helped the narrator process her own story. It’s possible there is a gag order on the narrator as per her sister. There are other confusing aspects mentioned in some of the other reviews - but I lost some respect for the otherwise well meaning narrator when she left her interview with Hope and then immediately started bad mouthing her and calling her tears “water-works.” Hope came on the show and helped this narrator with her podcast and was as real and vulnerable as she could be…and then was betrayed by the narrator. I immediately stayed to question the narrators motives for the show at that point. If her sister were to hear this episode - there is no way she would ever come to the narrator for help. Why would she now? So that she can pour her heart out and be betrayed on a national podcast? The narrator kept saying “I wish my sister would just come forward” - no way would she after hearing this. Unfortunately- that episode changed my opinion of the podcast. It seems like the narrator is well meaning - but seems to have an axe to grind with her sister & family and so any good research & info gets lost in serving that confusing narrative. It’s all done in this “serial” style, but she is far too close to it all to be objective and professional. It’s just a long opinion piece/essay in the end - but it walks an ethical line for me because of the journalistic presentation.

This season is dragging out and way too woke for me. The referring to one person as “they” is really annoying. No one is a they. Jackie the “trans” therapist said “like” a million times. Not a great season. Yea im done with this podcast