Just found this: Hannah doe a great job of adding her perspective to the show, it really added to the understanding! Love this show so far can’t wait to dive it into the rest! Highly recommended!

This show is absolute trash now.

Love this podcast!

Like a lot of others have said, I truly used to love The Opportunist. The new season is unlistenable. It seems like the new season is both written and hosted by AI? Such a disappointing turn for what used to be a great podcast.

I listened to all of the initial episodes and was hooked. It was so well researched, edited, and presented. Idk if the new host is a journalist but overall the quality just tanked massively. Doesn’t feel like I’m listening to anything of substance anymore, just kind of the same click-bait-y true crime that you’d find on like. 2 sentence horror stories. It also feels like it’s trying to be funny and witty which is. Not what I came here for! I don’t want to gasp and be shocked by the vague overview they give of everything. I wanted to be informed and hear all sides! I wanted to see how things actually happened and how they actually impacted people. Where people were failed, how they could actually be helped, how telling their storied helps victims and others!

As others have stated, the quality of this show went way down after Hannah Smith was ousted from the show. Not only this, but past episodes are now all paywalled at an absolutely ridiculous price. For the price of an actual streaming service you can get 1 lackluster episode a week and access to episodes that used to be entirely free. I get that advertising in the podcast industry has changed in the past couple of years and subscriptions are necessary, but $10 is actually insane. And this is for someone to basically read a wikipedia article to you.

With the old host, the writing was smart and interesting. This new host editorializes way too much for effect and her grammar is not stellar. Additionally, the number of ads seems to have climbed substantially. In Apple Podcasts before downloading a show it gives the number of minutes of just podcast, and then after it’s downloaded shows the number of minutes of podcast+ads. I just listened to the three body problem - 26 minutes of podcast, 10 full minutes of ads! This is 90s primetime TV bad. I’m also not a fan of all the episodes of other podcasts it keeps dropping in the feed. It has so far dropped FIVE episodes of Jay Shetty’s show, despite it being completely unrelated to the Opportunist content-wise, and besides that every recent episode has downloaded with a “You Might Also Like” episode. Not very thoughtful for those of set to have it autodownload. I will be unsubscribing, though I loved past seasons.

Loved Hannah. New host sounds like AI.

This show is so well done, yet they are allowing podcast one to cross promote Jay Shetty, who it is fairly well known has lied about his background and exaggerated his experience…sounds like an opportunist to me. Will listen to the inevitable season ABOUT Jay Shetty…

I just to like this show before. Now it’s just trash.