![]() But in Serial, we get to see the manipulations involved in such constructions we even see it in the very first step, the reporting. The forms and genre tricks associated with mystery do not make for straightforward storytelling. ![]() Murder mystery stories are inherently a manipulation of some kind. Could someone who looks like that really strangle his girlfriend? Idiotic, I know.” That's what prompts my most idiotic lines of inquiry. “He has giant brown eyes like a dairy cow. In a telling moment, Koenig describes her first impression of Syed. ![]() Indeed, in the first episode, this ostensible seduction is established. “What if he is this amazing sociopath and I’m just being played?” asks Koenig, before describing how charming, smart, and funny Syed is. Enright asks why Koenig seems so down on Syed, and their voices tip into cozy commiseration it sounds like two friends discussing the details of a relationship. Their certainty paradoxically prompts skepticism in Koenig. When Enright’s team comes back to Koenig after reviewing the case, they’re on team Syed, too. In episode seven, which became available Thursday, Koenig gets in touch with Deirdre Enright, a lawyer from The University of Virginia’s Innocence Project Clinic.
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