"But let's say you wanted to listen to Serial simply as a whodunnit or a drama full of WTF — wouldn't you have to contort around everything else happening in our particular cultural moment to do so? For months, our news media have been dominated by stories of people who have found themselves on the business end of our criminal justice machinery, only to have their lives upended or obliterated. Serial isn't about Ferguson, of course, but, oh, the resonances."
http://www.wbur.org/npr/370423380/serial-isnt-about-ferguson-but-its-kind-of-about-ferguson
Yes. This is why Serial disappointed me a little bit - the race and religion aspects should have been presented in the first episode, and definitely should have been further explored as the podcast started to be released at the same time as 2014 grand jury decisions. It's interesting, because This American Life had a lot more discussion of This Black American Life in the 90s - a lot more people of color, and a lot more of just Ira Glass saying black. I think it's sort of the same way that the first season of Friends is way, way more feminist than like How I Met Your Mother; something happened in the 2000s that is making people less prepared than they were.
Or, I don't know, I was like tiny then and stuff, but that narrative pulls together a pattern for me.
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