![]() However, The Mystery Show is completely different in tone and subject matter (there are no murder investigations, for instance, and each episode is self contained). ![]() ![]() Kine - who contributed the Phil Collins segment to my all-time favorite This American Life episode, “The Break Up” - is sort of taking a page out of the Serial handbook and producing a podcast devoted to mysteries. ![]() My latest obsession is The Mystery Show, the third podcast from Gimlet Media - spearheaded by former This American Life contributor Alex Blumberg - hosted by another former TAL contributor Starlee Kine (at this point, I could probably complete my entire Pajiba 5 exclusively exlusively TAL contributors, current and former). Radiolab and Serial are obviously the big ones, although I am also a fan of Death Sex and Money and Criminal. Even as I grow increasingly restless with celebrity interview podcasts like WTF with Marc Maron, Pete Holmes’ You Made It Weird, Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist - if only because the more I get to know celebrities, the more mundane their lives seem to me - I am increasingly obsessed with narrative podcast, especially those that can be connected directly or indirectly to This American Life.
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