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Lara makes her triumphant return, promising to bring her A game.
We give an update on the COSA appeal in favor of Adnan Syed: why the next 15 days are important. Speaking of triumphant returns, John David Booter is back with season two of Done Disappeared. It seems crimes against water fowl are more common than John David Booter realized. (With John David Booter.) Plus, a fake astronaut claps back on The Habitat, the podcast from Gimlet we reviewed last week.
Next, we take a close look at the New York Times podcast Caliphate. Journalist Rukmimi Callimachi pulls back the curtain on how the terror group draws people to the cause, and life as a war correspondent, all in an attempt to answer the question, “Who are we fighting?”
FOR A SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF CALIPHATE, GO TO 48:28:40
In Crime of the Week: if it bleeds, it leads.
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A hot review of 30 for 30's "Bikram," Adnan Syed responds, and an "In the Dark" recantation
Dismissing Adnan's charges? The Handmaids return! An In The Dark Update! And Grading The Teacher's Pet!
Evil Genius! That HBO Adnan Syed Documentary! Miracle Whip! And More In the Dark!
In The Dark - A Great True Crime Podcast Returns!
Is The Habitat a terrible podcast? Is the Golden State Killer caught??! And Westworld returns!
Death in Ice Valley! And our review of Unforgotten (on PBS!)
Marcia Clark Investigates! And is Felonious Florida a felonious podcast?
A legal victory for Serial's Adnan Syed & A review of Empire on Blood
Wild Wild Country, Moon over New Mexico, and We are the Champions
Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo, The Staircase returns, and an Atlanta Monster take-down
O.J. Confessed? Atlanta Monster revisited? Seven Seconds Reviewed! (And more!)
A McMafia Review, An EPIC Rant & "I'll be Gone in the Dark"
Disgraceland reviewed, the Pope's final con, & Dassey's SCOTUS appeal
HBO's Mosaic, lottery woes, and a brief return to West Cork
Double Take: The Onion's 'A Very Fatal Murder' and our (spoiler free) 'West Cork' review
A Done Disappeared encore, Slow Burn’s next story, The Walk’s big idea, The Alienist reviewed
In which we review "Dark" from Netflix and retract our criticism of a maligned media figure
Atlanta Monster gets our review! And Dirty John gets the prime time treatment!
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