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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
Good… maybe get more perspectives
It’s a fascinating topic and the reporting is top notch they do seem to take everything the detainees say as indisputable fact though….. also 9/11 is not an excuse for the black sites or wars
felt flat
well-researched and produced of course but it was flat for me. so many nuances to this story about gitmo and yet Serial didn’t manage to tackle any of them in my opinion. So many unanswered questions and issues to be addressed. Also nothing new here, no new angle, more of the same about gitmo.
Serial’s Integrity Dies in the Hands of a Terrorist
Season Four is a departure from the high quality journalism of the previous seasons. But episode 8 reveals how truly biased Serial has become.
Episode 8 deliberately glosses over Majid role in delivering $50,000 to a terrorist to finance the JW Marriott suicide bombing in Jakarta. An attack that killed 11 people and injured at least 81 others. Why not interview some of those victims? I am sure they would want to convey the horrors caused by Majid. Serial ignores this important aspect of story to cast Majid as a victim. This is beyond sloppy it is unethical and shameful journalism.