I’m re-listening to one of my other favorite podcasts and they recommended this one! I ended up binging it. 10/10 recommend

Interesting content and impressive curation, but it’s amazing how people can get away with stealing info from books, documentaries and newspapers with zero citing of sources. This is like an adult book report you’d give an F to for plagerism. Also, the background music is too loud and filled with shrill instruments that distract and cut through the narration. The voice acting is often poorly recorded and acted. The episodes are also overly long.

I listened to the entire series in a few days. It was totally immersive and I liked how each episode opened up on a different facet of the events rather than giving a straight chronological account. I also find it funny how some reviews despise that someone would write about a time in history they weren't there for when that is what the basis of historical writing is built upon; people researching, assembling cohesive narratives and expanding on periods of time before their own.

One of my all time favorite podcasts. I have come back to listen many times. It is well researched and perfectly presented.

She takes a deep dive and looks at so many different players and angles which is interesting. It’s not her voice that is unpleasant, unless she’s speaking for a Manson Girl, who she decided all speak with nasal annoying voices. It’s her odd pronunciation (“narwritted vs narrated), her odd phrases (“acid gobblers” I believe the term is drop acid not gobble it) and the mispronunciation of just about every major players name. This is one of the most famous cases, and it’s 50 years old. How do you not know how to pronounce the names when you’re doing a podcast? Among the repeated mispronounced names are Jay Sebring, Leno LaBianca, Roman Polanski, Wojciech Frykowski, and my personal favorite, the three different ways she came up with to say Leslie Van Houten. Also spent a good 40 minutes discussing Polanski’s later rape case and shared her personal opinions on what she thought. Regarding the Manson murders, Polanski was the victim, losing both his wife and his child (similarly, his own pregnant mother was killed in Auschwitz). Perhaps not the greatest time to be speaking about his future events. It is also possible to feel terribly sorry for the man for his losses, and dislike the actions he took in the future. It felt almost victim blamey to bring both up in the same episode and focus on the later event. Also, Pacific Ocean Blue is not a “ hauntingly beautiful” album. It’s an album full of great rock music— not what you would expect from a beach boy except adorably, his brothers singing backup.

Worth to listen to fully understand the crimes especially if you were not alive during this time.

Back ground music is too loud

No effort to give nuanced historic accounts of the troubled but influential era, just a myopic and brief summary of tropes and stereotypes to tell a horror story. Ugh. Pass.

great writing and narration, a blueprint for quality serial documentaries in the podcast format

Could you be anymore condescending? Being a third or fourth hand account of an era you did not experience is disgusting. This story could’ve been so much more interesting to me without all the condescending criticism in your description of a generation that means so much more to some of us who lived it. You should’ve stuck to the details of the Tate-LaBianca tragedies, which they were a true tragedy, WITHOUT your trivialization of the era.